Gyumri Mayor Fires Predecessor’s Daughter Over A Tiff

GYUMRI MAYOR FIRES PREDECESSOR’S DAUGHTER OVER A TIFF

02.13.2014 13:54 epress.am

Mayor of Armenia’s second-largest city Samvel Balasanyan
(pictured) adopted his promised “punitive measures,” reports local
dailyZhoghovurd.

After former Gyumri mayor Vardan Ghukasyan’s son Spartak Ghukasyan
threatened him two weeks ago, Balasanyan said if the relevant
authorities this time as well don’t deal with the matter, “I will
turn to punitive measures — let no one doubt this.”

And so, on Balasanyan’s decree, Ghukasyan’s daughter, Manya Ghukasyan,
was dismissed from her position as director of Gyumri’s art school.

“On Feb. 5 a city hall employee went to the school and announced that
Samvel Balasanyan said after these incidents, write your resignation
letter. It was pointless to work with such a person. A man to go
after a girl [to avenge his reputation]? It is not behavior that
is appropriate of someone from Gyumri,” said Manya’s sister, Anna
Ghukasyan, in conversation with the newspaper, adding that in her
resignation letter her sister wished Balasanyan to get rid of the
evil within him, to become kinder.