Physically, I saw Ruben Vardanyan for the last time before going to Artsakh. And I communicated with him a few hours before his arrest. We talked for about an hour about what is happening and what is not happening. We also talked about the fact that maybe Ruben should return, but he categorically said no, he will stay here, and so he stayed. Presenter Yegor Glumov said about this: "And he was arrested on that very day, literally a few hours later.
Our last conversation was at that time. he said that he is busy, he can't talk for long now, we will talk later. A few days later, when he had already been arrested, I noticed on WhatsApp that nothing remained of our conversations, recordings, pictures, screenshots that we sent directly.
Until now, it is a big secret for me: did Ruben delete it, or did they clean or use it already when his phone was in the hands of the Azerbaijanis? It was a great pain for me. During the court, they even showed episodes from our last interviews. it turned out that they were also used against him. There were words that Azerbaijani propagandists took out of context and used. It also included the last interview between me and Ruben, when he was in Stepanakert, and I was able to prepare the interview from here through the Internet. I am very sorry for that," said Glumov.
