Vardanyan is a Russian oligarch whom Putin virtually dispatched to Karabakh, but many in the West are treating him as a pro-Western Armenian patriot, Michael Doran, a senior fellow at the US Hudson Institute, wrote on Twitter, Report informs.

He criticized Ruben Vardanyan, who is one of the leaders of the separatists in the Azerbaijani territories where Russian peacekeepers are temporarily stationed.

https://report.az/en/foreign-politics/us-institute-vardanyan-is-russian-oligarch-whom-putin-virtually-dispatched-to-karabakh/