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Ruben Vardanyan

The well-known philanthropist who devoted his life to humanitarian and cultural projects was detained during his attempt to enter Armenia from Artsakh. Unlawfully charged with three crimes he faces up to 14 years in prison. The detention of this innocent figure attracted ECHR’s attention. Ruben Vardanyan must be released immediately so that he can return to his family.

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Ruben Vardanyan

The well-known philanthropist who devoted his life to humanitarian and cultural projects was detained during his attempt to enter Armenia from Artsakh. Unlawfully charged with three crimes he faces up to 14 years in prison. The detention of this innocent figure attracted ECHR’s attention. Ruben Vardanyan must be released immediately so that he can return to his family.

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    “We call on the authorities to take all measures to ensure that due legal process is followed and that rights to fair trials are given as required by international human rights la…
    Elizabeth Throssel, UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson
    “I don’t know anyone who has influenced the world around them more than Ruben Vardanyan. He’s helped the world become more educated, more tolerant, nobler and kinder. Free Ruben V…
    Hayk Sargsyan, entrepreneur, founder of Cosmotheca concept beauty stores
    “Ruben Vardanyan is a good person. His arrest in Azerbaijan and a term of 14 years in prison based only on the fact that he was a state minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic i…
    Andrey Osipov, journalist
    “Armenian-born Ruben Vardanyan has lived in Russia for a long time and has done a lot for our country. In recent years, he moved away from business and concentrated on charitable …
    Yury Baranchik, political scientist, PhD in Philosophy
    “Amid the recent events in the world, the tragedy of the former Nagorno-Karabakh leaders arrested by Azerbaijan and our compatriot, Ruben Vardanyan, in particular are out of the l…
    Ekaterina Vinokurova, journalist and public figure
    “As the topic of relocated people is widely discussed, I often — and with sadness — think about a completely different ‘relocant,’ Ruben Vardanyan. A man who actually stuck…
    Egor Kholmogorov – politician, publicist, documentary filmmaker
    “For the people of Karabakh, Ruben Vardanyan is not just an official who held the post of state minister for some time, but a man whose devotion to his people was never doubted. D…
    Marat Bashirov, political strategist
    “Ruben Vardanyan is a powerful personality on an international level. He has helped the entire world. He came [to Nagorno-Karabakh] only with intentions to help, because the peopl…
    Norat Ter-Grigoryants, Soviet military commander and Armenian politician
    “Ruben, we remember you. At present, my main goal is assisting in the release of Ruben Vardanyan and other political prisoners in Azerbaijan.”
    Tomasz Lech Buczek, Polish politician
    “‘You either work for someone else’s mission or go after your own.’ I here quote Ruben Vardanyan, a phrase he casually passed to me while walking one of Skolkovo’s many cor…
    Ekaterina Inozemtseva, co-founder and CEO of the Free Publicity School online school
    “Vardanyan had lived in Russia for a long time — at first, doing business, then launching social projects. He opened the Skolkovo business school, co-founded the Primakov Foundati…
    Igor Skurlatov, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Co-founder of the National Regional Development Foundation
    “Over the past 23 years, together with Ruben, we have implemented dozens of humanitarian and charitable projects in Armenia. Last fall Ruben moved to Artsakh to help residents reg…
    Noubar Afeyan, entrepreneur and philanthropist, co-founder and Board Chairman of Moderna
    “The Azerbaijani military has detained Ruben Vardanyan, a businessman whose humanitarian ideas fascinated me some time ago. He and his wife Veronika invested $100 million of their…
    Anna Mongait, journalist
    “Ruben Vardanyan is a devoted son of the Armenian people and an exceptional patriot of his motherland… We, Armenians, must demand to free our fellow countryman, Ruben Karlenovich,…
    Karen Grigoryan, public and political figure, former member of parliament
    “There is another very important topic. I’m talking about the unresolved fate of Nagorno-Karabakh residents recently detained by Azerbaijan. As you know, Ruben Vardanyan, a…
    Abbas Djuma, political scientist and international journalist
    “From a human point of view, it is very inspiring when a wealthy and successful businessman leaves Moscow for a war zone. Nagorno-Karabakh was such a zone when Ruben Vardya…
    Maxim Grigoriev, political scientist and member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation
    “How many of our people are in Baku prisons? Twenty? Thirty? Twenty-three?.. We don’t even know… Armenia forgot about them, the world, peacekeepers, mediators, everybody …
    Aza Babayan, journalist
    “I spoke with Ruben about two months ago, and he told me that he would be in Artsakh to the very end, and that he was happy there because he could offer people hope and help. Afte…
    Sarik Andreasyan, director
    “Before moving to the disputed territory, Vardanyan had been living in our country for more than 20 years and invested a lot of effort and money in its development. It is no exagg…
    Vladimir Kornilov, historian, journalist, public figure, political observer of the “Russia Today” Media Group
    “I remember one of our conversations with Ruben Vardanyan… It was probably July 2023. We were talking about our love for Artsakh, and do you know what he said? It is very deeply…
    Metakse Hakobyan, Deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Artsakh
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