2024-04-04 13:29:22
Aravot.am asked the actor, comedian Rafael Yeranosyan how he feels about Nikol Pashinyan’s statement that representatives of the show business should pay taxes if they hold concerts and speeches outside Armenia, otherwise he offers to do it by cutting reeds on rural roads. get to the airport so that the tarmac does not wear out. After listening to the question, Rafael Yeranosyan said that he has been a taxpayer for a long time and pays taxes. When the media detailed what exactly it was about, Yeranosyan laughed. “I don’t know, I don’t follow anything, I want to live quietly… Did he say something like that for sure or are you lying?” Do you tell a stand-up, do you offer a performance scenario…”? When Yeranosyan was reminded that one of his colleagues, Andranik Harutyunyan, even made a humorous clip on that topic and published it on his page, he said: “I haven’t been in touch with Ando for a long time… But all this is really funny, I don’t have an answer, honestly… I wonder if what you said is really true…” Yeranosyan also said about Pashinyan’s mention of getting to the airport on the near-field roads, mowing the reeds, without wearing out the asphalt. “I live in Armavir marz, there is no asphalt near us, I will go through the fields… The only thing left is to put on a lot of shows, work hard, buy my own helicopter… By the way, I have a 10-acre peach orchard, maybe I’ll demolish it and build a runway. And if we are talking about paying taxes, I repeat: I have always paid and will pay. But all the same, all this is ridiculous, I can’t give an answer…”.
He added that right now he is preparing for his new play “Pahleva”, which will premiere in April. “I’ll definitely go to the guys about it, tell our script team and we’ll look into it.”
As for the actor Andranik Harutyunyan, who filmed a humorous video on the subject of Nikol Pashinyan’s statement and published it on his Facebook page, he was one of the speakers of the “velvet” revolution of 2018 and always said in his interviews that people are finally smiling on the streets, and that in the last 20 He has not seen such smiling faces in 2016, he also called to support the “velvet” revolution and saw Pashinyan as the prime minister. “In 2018, 80 percent of the citizens of the Republic of Armenia were with that party, if you were not, then you are among 20 percent. But now you call 80% of them and ask them what you asked me… Roughly speaking, did we fall on fire (a harsh word was used instead of the word fire) for supporting them? Naturally, if we had known that this would happen today, we would not have done it, but who could have imagined it? So much…” Andranik Harutyunyan told Aravot.am afterwards.