New aircraft

04/04/2006

Yesterday there were so many officials at the Airport that it seemed they were going to meet at least Vladimir Putin or see the president off. But in fact they were there only with the purpose of seeing the new aircraft of Mikhail Baghdasarov.

But the most interesting thing there was their behavior: at first the patriarchies they had brought with them blessed the aircraft, then the Armenian high ranked officials cut the ribbon tied in the front part of the aircraft, then all of them entered the aircraft. Then they brought a cake with candles on it. Baghdasarov approached the cake with a big knife in his hands and after people started to applaud he started cutting the cake. And then the officials applauded Mr. Baghdasarov for cutting the cake the right way…