“Ruben Vardanyan became interesting and sympathetic to me when he turned from an ordinary rich man, of which there are tons in Russia, into a man who sacrificed everything for the sake of his motherland Armenia, and besides, he launched a wonderful pedagogical experiment – the Dilijan school.

The fact that Vardanyan has been held in an Azerbaijani prison for more than a year is outrageous by itself. And now it turns out that his trial will be completely Kafkaesque”.