PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN AND HIS ATTITUDE TO THE ARMENIANS
By Ruben Hayrapetian, Moscow

AZG Armenian Daily
08/02/2007

The particularities of the latest interview of Russian Federation
President Vladimir Putin were thoroughly represented by the world
mass media and there is no need to refer to them once more. The 3,5
hour-long meeting with the most outstanding representatives of press
proved the real respect of the Russian people to their President,
as a person who managed to recover the immense country from crisis.

As of the question of the Armenian representative addressed to the
President of Russia, one can say that it should have been done much
better. How moral is it to ask a head of a foreign state about his
personal attitude to some nation? Evidently, only Ilham Aliev could
openly declare that the hates the Armenians. One could hardly think
that even the president of Turkey could afford such an expression. On
the other hand, it would be vain to expect Putin to express love and
devotion to the Armenian people.