"What information do the authorities have about the presence of the Catholicos' brother as a KGB agent?", the journalist asked Alen Simonyan, to which he replied:
"There is such a publication, open it, read it. Legal proceedings are decided by the specific body according to the publication. And if there is no response or denial to the publication, any politician can make a reference and say, by the way, there is such a publication."
Speaking about his first meeting with Ezras Srbazan, the Speaker of the National Assembly mentioned: "The first time I went to Moscow, I was the vice president at that time, they called at the Aurora Marriott hotel and said, 'He has come, he wants to see you.' I went downstairs, approached him, said: Hello, would you sign this paper? I said: what is this? Look, it's an application written in Russian on behalf of me, my colleague Vorobyov, for some land allocation. Underneath, "thank you, Alen Simonyan". I say, what have you brought? He says: will you sign one? That was my first impression of that man. I took that paper and tore it."
