YEREVAN. – The fact that Armenia’s oligarchs are returning to the parliament is disgusting, but now they pose a danger for the very authorities and the state, capital Yerevan’s Regional Studies Center Director Richard Giragosian said during a press conference on Friday.     

In his words, if we see how small an amount of taxes they pay and how big a portion of the economy they govern, it will be apparent that they have become a threat for country itself.  

“In English, this is the Frankenstein monster, who begins to rule and assume a ruling position,” the political scientist noted.  

He asked a question that when a politician carries a weapon while meeting with the voters, what can be said about him.   

“Is he that much scared of the Armenian people, or does this show what type of a politician he is? But what’s important is that the oligarchs are now becoming the number-one threat for the state and authorities, and a political will is necessary to resolve this problem,” Richard Giragosian stressed.

Photo by Sona Barseghyan