http://uzogh.livejournal.com/96917.html

[…] intellectually, Ter-Petrossian is beyond comparison to the ruling gharabakhi provincials. He is an appealing, erudite, and presentable person. However, he has a multitude of sins committed against his own people, and people still vividly remember and do not seem to ever forgive him for depriving them of basic necessities under the guise of an Azerbaijani-Turkish blockade, for the sake of making personal profit by artificially exaggerating its consequences, while making massive sale of various commodities, much-needed electricity, and industrial raw materials abroad. These man-made hardships have had horrifying effect on people: demoralized, impoverished them beyond measure, made hundreds of thousands of people ailing, dying of destitution, hunger, and cold, eradicated intelligentsia and intellectuals, weakened the academic strength of the nation, and left the doors wide open for emigration thus de-populating Armenia. LTP’s characteristic snobbish and cynical behavior towards his own people who actually brought him to power is another thing people always refer to when taking of him.

They also do not forget that the practice of political assassinations and electoral irregularities have started during Ter-Petrossian’s rule. Doing away with those who opposed the Armenian National Movement’s coming to power, or who might have known of Ter-Petrossian’s shadowy biographical facts, or who dared to criticize his government’s wrongdoings in accumulating power and wealth, or those who could have made up an opposition to his regime has become a norm of the LTP years. His decline as a politician has started with the massive fraud instituted at the 1996 presidential election actually won by Vazgen Manoukian.

It was this earlier practice of electoral fraud that has brought the Armenian people to a situation that we have today. Anti-popular, self-centered rulers and their loggerhead nouveaux rich elites who, no matter how lavishly rich they become, how many luxurious cafés, villas, or disgusting buildings they put up in downtown Yerevan, will remain power- and wealth-hungry for the rest of their miserable lives, with apathetic, disgruntled, and impoverished population struggling to survive under them or leave that Hell for a better life abroad. This is the Ter-Petrossian legacy.