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WikiLeaks: ‘Hummers, Numbers, and Oligarchs: Who’s Who on Armenia’s Streets’
YEREVAN (A.W.)--On Aug. 26, WikiLeaks released 846 U.S. Embassy cables originating in Yerevan, bringing the total number from the country to 856.
Below is a cable that describes the transportation vehicles of Armenia’s “tycoons,” including their choice of plate numbers and the significance of those numbers. Created on April 1, 2004, it was written by U.S. deputy chief of mission in Armenia Vivian Walker, and is titled “Hummers, Numbers, and Oligarchs: Who’s Who on Armenia’s Street
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SHAME !
Vanity numbers cost additional fee in California too. Not that it will get you preferential treatment though.
Shame on us and shame to all those who called themselves politicians…these oligarchy Armenian traitors have no mercy on their own citizens.. these people became like vicious animals after Armenia’s independence. Twenty years is a long time now, they should pack their belonging and leave the country with their bloody “hummers” and sticklers, for good, enough is enough…
Every Politician every where
They work for their profits
Look to the British Prime Minster
Mr. Tony Blair… what he does
He travels to Gulf with his wife
Giving the Arab advice…
How to run their affairs
As if the Arabs don’t have clever brains
To run their state
Every contract he gets millions
Writers protested against him
But he doesn’t care
Continues to do… reaching recently
Further to the East Asia
Continuing his political b***s
SP
I agree with Grish Begian 100%.
The government leaders have become “Armenian Traitors par excellence” and have no mercy on their own citizens. They have ruined the country, they are worse than the turks. The best thing they can do is to get out of the country and get lost.
Our greatest need is to have righteous, God fearing, real Christian government leaders. May the Lord Jesus help our people and deliver us from evil government leaders.
Ex president Robert Katcharian is said to be worth over 200 million dollars.. Did he win the Armenian lottery?
This is a good bunch of samples of good, innocent, honest and wise Armenians as commented here by many Armenian fellows. These handful people are supported by the poor Armenians who sacrifice their future, so they can lead such luxurious lives.
This and many more examples of how “regular” armenians should behave in their own country in order to deserve respect of the very institutions designed to seemingly provide them protection, is a clear example of what a state our nation is in on a soceital and political level right now. It is as if we are only barely able to unite for a common good for all our countrymen if we are threatened by war, but do everything to destroy our own liability as a respecful society when we have to interact for other reason.
To James – I agree with your opinion on the scumbags leaders, but please, for our own and any other religiously “troubled” nations sake…..do not, by any means mix the notion of state and governance with religion of any kind. Any stable democratic nation on this earth (if we see nations such as Germany or France as stable democracies) has earned it’s democratic justice and stable society for it’s citizens by seperating church and state completely. The armenian state should not be defined by it’s religion but by it’s strength to create a just society, productive for it’s citizens no matter what you believe in or don’t.
It is funny how you guys think Levon Ter Petrosyan is a Turkish agent where Ter Petrosyan is a great supporter of democracy, human rights, justice and the rule of law, unlike such tyrannts as Kocharian or Sarkisian. Ter Petrosyan is a hero versus those two I mentioned, period.