“This aquarium symbolizes the Sports and Concert Complex, with its gathered guests—isolated, like fish in an aquarium, from the real people and real issues. They have assembled and isolated themselves from our genuine voice and concerns. They have been isolated so that Europeans do not interact with the Armenian people.
Let’s be honest: eight years ago, no one would have come here. Eight years ago, this country was viewed at the negotiating table as a de facto satellite of Russia.
Welcome to the Funeral of Democracy: How the reception of Ursula von der Leyen and Other European Officials went on
