Samvel Karapetyan, leader of the "Strong Armenia" party, businessman and philanthropist, expressed his opinion in a conversation with journalists that if Pashinyan asks, Russia will raise the price of gas, and if he doesn't ask, it won't. "We will see," he said. Referring to the reasons for his arrest, in particular the defense's statement that it was Baku's demand, the politician suggested that the reasons should be found in "Pashinyan's head", adding that Pashinyan himself should be found guilty. considering how many misfortunes he has caused. Karapetyan responded sarcastically to the observation that Pashinyan assures that he did not accumulate anything with honest work during his prime ministership. "I doubt it. If a person talks a lot, it means he has a lot." He explained the Prime Minister's recent attacks and statements as "another escalation", and he treated the threats of "taking away everything" almost with humor. "Who is the prime minister? again stole the votes in order to stay longer in the chair. Leaders of the opposition will come out of prisons, and those who have to sit down will sit down." According to him, the idea of ​​"real Armenia" boils down to not having a Homeland. "We will do everything so that he cannot advance that ideology," Karapetyan promised, assuring that everything necessary will be done, and the next prime minister He will do it himself. When asked to clarify the plans to build a tourist center in Tigranashen, Karapetyan said that he will do everything so that the hands of the authorities do not reach Tigranashen (in the plans of the authorities, it is "returned" to Azerbaijan. is "n".