HAYK BABUKHANIAN CALLS ARMENIAN AUTHORITIES FOR ACTIVIZING THEIR
EFFORTS IN PROTECTION OF RIGHTS OF THEIR CITIZENS IN RUSSIA
YEREVAN, JUNE 2, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. As a state Armenia
should more actively protect the rights of its citizens living in
other countries, but Armenia, in essence, is doing nothing in this
direction. Hayk Babukhanian, Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Law
Union, declared this at the June 2 discussion at the Hayeli (Mirror)
club dedicated to cases of violence towards Armenians that have become
frequent recently. According to him, one should not consider the
recent murder of the 19-year-old boy in Moscow out of touch with the
processes going on in Russia. “We see that there is a problem of
racialism and Fascism in Russia and the Armenian authorities should be
consistent in the issue of protection of the rights and interests of
their citizens in this country.” In the opinion of another participant
of the discussion, former Armenian Parliament Vice-Speaker Karapet
Rubinian, national hatred and Fascism existing in Russia is first of
all the problem of Russia itself: “These phenomena did not do good any
country in the world, especially as we speak about such a
multi-national state as Russia.” Karapet Rubinian expressed confidence
that today’s Russia has sound forces capable of resisting
manifestations of Fascism and racialism, but these forces in Russia,
as well as in Armenia, are marginalized, and everything is decided
only by forces of authoritarianism dominating in this country. In his
opinion, the best solution of this issue for Armenia is return of
Armenians from Russia to the homeland. According to Hayk Babukhanian,
the reason of such processes is that Russia is a non-formed state and
has not been determined yet, whether it wants to become a superpower
or a democratic state. Undoubtedly, different groupings arise in this
period, which look for those guilty in the problems of their country
and one cannot exclude that Russia’s enemies, who want to blow up it
from within, can stand behind these groupings. In this context we
should also consider the problems of Russia in the Caucasus increasing
day by day.