“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 imprinted in my memory… He said: “I thought I had done a lot for my people, for my homeland. I think if one day my little son asks me: “Dad, why are you Armenian?” What I will say to him? I tried to answer the question and realized that I didn’t have an answer, because being Armenian is not about helping the homeland and financial support… That very day I made a decision to go to live in Artsakh, where my compatriots are in need”.

I think it’s interesting what benefit Ruben Vardanyan had in coming to Artsakh… When a person is self-sufficient, when both in financial issues and in the issue of recognition he has reached the top, he needs to rediscover himself, and by coming to Artsakh Ruben Vardanyan essentially solved this problem.

At first we had some doubts, but after 5-10 meetings, conversations, seeing what he does, we were convinced that the man feels his homeland, and this homeland felt him. Artsakh people began to love and appreciate what he had done, because when during the blockade many rich and empowered people did not live as a nation, Ruben Vardanyan was together with all of us. If there was no bread in the stores, it means that he had no bread either”.