YEREVAN. – As Armenia’s businessman MP Samvel Aleksanyan is getting ready to take his “strong community” to Georgia’s resort city of Kobuleti, we received information that, in reality, he will take his one-thousand people to Armenia’s Lake Sevan, so that the “money would not leave Armenia,” Hraparak daily writes. 

“But the Armenian establishment drew a ‘new road map’ map this summer, and, unlike in the previous years, when it preferred Bulgaria and Dubai [for its summer vacation], this year all roads are leading to Spain, with or without [boat] cruises. The majority of Armenia’s leading politicians are in Spain at present, and the rest will join them by the end of the week.  

The thing is that [President] Serzh Sargsyan will be on a business trip to London until July 31 and, subsequently, he will be on vacation until August 17. [And] The currently relaxing senior officials are trying to calm their much-maligned nerves in Spain, prior to his return, [and] despite the ‘rampant’ economic crisis,” Hraparak writes.