Pistol or phone?: Tsarukyan says it was a gadget, Oskanian says it was a gun

Armenian tycoon Gagik Tsarukyan, who is now leading his pro-establishment Prosperous Armenia Party campaign in different towns and regions of the country, has expressly denied he carried a gun at one of public meetings with voters after a footage appeared online showing, for a moment, a gun-shaped object stuck in his pants.

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The original video published by News.am on April 13 showed Tsarukyan kneeling and leaning forward to greet Echmiadzin voters from the stage, revealing something looking like a golden pistol in his trousers. The bodyguard then quickly moved to cover it.

Prosperous Armenia Party representative Naira Zohrabyan and Tsarukyan's spokesman later said it was a luxury phone rather than a gun as alleged by media based on the News.am footage.  Read more... (349 words, 2 images)

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