Despite the fact that the newly elected President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan is considered the heir of Robert Kocharyan it doesn’t guarantee the security of Kocharyan. The director of the Russian Strategic Research Institute Alexander Skakov expressed such an opinion in the Russian RBK Daily. “The level of their friendship cannot be underestimated. Kocharyan’s team was looking for an alternative for Sargsyan for a long time. It is not an accident that Kocharyan established the Prosperous Armenia Party, which occupied the second place in the parliamentary run. He needed extra support. And he can find that support in Moscow,” said Skakov considering the rumors about the possibility of Kocharyan submitting the post of the deputy director of the Russian Gazprom.
