Russian-Armenian billionaire Ruben Vardanyan, who recently decided to renounce his Russian citizenship and move to Nagorno-Karabakh, has not ruled out that he might one day accept a public position.
“I am changing citizenship not because I will not be able to do many things, Vardanyan said in an interview with the Russian service of Forbes, published on Monday, September 5.
“But a situation may arise when I will have to and I will consider it right to accept a public position.”
Asked whether he was planning to take a government position, he gave a negative response, maintaining that he wants to have complete freedom of action.
When announcing his decision to move the Artsakh (Karabakh), Vardanyan stressed that after the 2020 war "many people in Artsakh started feeling that they have been abandoned."
"I believe that after the 2020 war, we, Armenians of the whole world, must be together with Artsakh," Vardanyan said, adding that after settling in Nagorno-Karabakh he will move all his assets in Russia to his family fund.
