“The president shouldn’t be afraid of the criminal “balloons”; nothing has blown up,” said leader of the “New Times” party Aram Karapetyan in response to the announcement made by President Robert Kocharyan about the anti-criminal movement “blowing up like a balloon”. As for leader of “National Unity” Artashes Geghamyan, he is of the opinion that “the businessmen on Robert Kocharyan’s side think that he’s some kind of balloon and are filling the empty space with absurd information.”