In an exclusive interview with the civic group “We Will Not Remain Silent” diaspora businessman Levon Hayrapetyan minces no words in condemning a number of problems plaguing Armenia.

Levon Hayrapetyan is a Russia-based businessman and benefactor born in Karabakh.

Hayrapetyan lashes out at endemic corruption, the illiteracy rampant in the state bureaucracy and the stifling oligarchy that has taken over many aspects of life.

The businessman also responds to the recent interview given by Charles Aznavour and the flap over the tiling of the walls at the Gandzasar Monastery in Artsakh.

Hayrapetyan calls officers in the Armenian army leading lavish lifestyles as “individuals suffering from an inferiority complex.”

In closing, Hayrapetyan said that it would only take six months to establish law and order in tiny Armenia and that an “exodus” of the oligarchs and not the average people should be organized.

The interview was conducted by phone since Hayrapetyan was in France at the time.