Robert Kocharian, president of Armenia (1998-2008) Anna Sous, RFE/RL Date of interview: September 2015
(This interview was conducted in Russian.)
Anna Sous: What is your Russia like? What does Russia represent to the second president of independent Armenia and the first president of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic?
Robert Kocharian: I had a Russian education. I was brought up in a kind of a mixture of Armenian traditions and Russian culture, art, and literature. So, Russia is more for me than just a country, a neighboring country with which we have extensive relations. Russia for me is associated primarily with its literature and art. …read more
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