“In 2009 President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, then quickly proceeded to launch 563 drone strikes while fueling Arab Spring and other regime changes worldwide.”

News that Russian/Armenian investor and philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is driving Romania’s far-right batty. Romanian MPs and MEPs of the National Liberal Party (PNL) are gnashing teeth and pulling out hair over the former Minister of State of Artsakh’s nomination for his efforts to help implement hundreds of humanitarian projects in Armenia, Artsakh, and the Armenian world.

Romanian politicians have joined 18 Ukrainian parliamentarians in claiming Vardanyan is “an enemy of Ukraine” and “a sponsor of Russian aggression in post-Soviet territories”.

It’s a funny twist of fate that Vardanyan has been included in the list of “100 Global Leaders of Tomorrow” at the World Economic Forum and is now some kind of villain terrorist. The co-founder of the Aurora humanitarian initiative and dozens of other educational or humanitarian efforts is now on a hunger strike as a political prisoner in total isolation.

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