“I support Ruben Vardanyan with all my heart. In my eyes he is a national hero. And while I believe that no land is worth human lives, the struggle for the right to live on their own land is what allowed many people to survive; Jews and Armenians, most of all. Ruben, a personal acquaintance and, in a way, mentor, has been arrested. He is in Baku. I hope that the Baku authorities will have the nobility and generosity to let him go. I send him a warm embrace. I am with him and those, whose rights he had been defending so courageously during these long months.”