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The following are excerpts from an interview with ex world boxing champion Israel Hakobkokhyan who has self-nominated himself for the presidential elections 2008.

- You cannot believe how mixed everything is. I do not understand what is going on.
- And what is going on?
- There is a lot to do, then, the problem of that money, then I went to the passport department to take documents. They promised to give on Monday. I wanted to meet the department head Alvina Zakaryan. I asked the secretary to tell that Hakobkokhyan has come but the secretary refused saying that there is no arrangement. I got very angry.
- Could you collect money?
- I found the first million yesterday. I have to find 7 million as well to pay the
foundation.
- Who did you take the million?
- We came up with fellow people and invested in our deal.
- What about the rest of the money?
- The rest I intend to get from selling my medals. Some people have already called and made inquiries but as far as I understand that people do not need my medals that I have earned with my blood and sweat. There were some people who called and asked how much gold is there in my medals. Some think that I will sell them as golden crow-bar. Although I intended not to sell my medals to a foreigner, but it is not excluded that I will sell them to Russian president Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
-How are you going to apply to Putin?
- I will send an e-mail to the Russian president. I watch TV and I see that his connections with the people are good. He is not very young and not very old not to have heard about me.
-Have you developed your pre-election program?
- I will not have any program and I will not print leaflets. The only program I will have will be everything for Armenia and for the Armenian nation. There are hundreds of ways how I can reach it. The most important thing will be that a person of an Armenian nation will have one motherland – Karabakh and Armenia. During my campaign, I will introduce me to the people and what I am going to do.