In the previous editions of our newspaper we published information, according to which one or two months ago Raffi Hovhannisyan has sent a private letter to one of the opposition leaders and asked to meet with him. Raffi Hovhannisyan told the opposition leader that unknown representatives of the US government would like to meet with the leader to discuss certain issues. The unknown political figure refused that offer and said that if there’s a necessity to meet the mentioned US bureau could have asked US Ambassador John Evans’ for mediation, but not R. Hovhannisyan. There are assumptions that the Americans might have circulated false rumors about the complaint-letter of R. Hohannisyan. Yesterday we received the reply letter of the “Heritage” party, headed by R. Hovhannisyan, which we fully present to your attention:
“Who’s the order from?”
“After reading the article published in your newspaper on December 22, entitled “who’s the author?” we asked for Raffi Hovhannisyan’s opinion. Before publishing this article the newspaper should have asked Raffi Hovhannisyan whether the information is true. But the newspaper did the opposite; they played with Mr. Hovhannisyan’s reputation and tried to involve him in low-level debate process. Therefore the newspaper did not maintain the elementary principles of objectivity, equality and professionalism. The response of Raffi Hovhannisyan is the following: “I’m sure this is gossip and it will turn and go back to the author, and the author will be punished”.
P.S. By the way, the Russian press also writes about this information.