What is the purpose of the uninvited guest? Vahe Hovhannisyan, a member of the “Alternative projects” group, wrote about this.

“Yesterday’s incident needs a deeper discussion. This fits into the government’s “every day something uglier” tactic. People came in large numbers for the festive liturgy, a very lovely church holiday. They had not planned anything other than liturgy, prayer, communion that day. And suddenly someone comes in who has been insulting their spiritual values ​​and sanctities for a long time. Obviously, there had to be an emotional reaction, uncontrollable emotions. The one who mocks and insults the Catholicos of All Armenians together with his ruling group.

For the people present at the liturgy in the church, the Blessed Sacrament is sacred. Someone is coming who has arrested high-ranking clerics, who are important authorities for these people, on trumped-up charges. He specially came to the church in the center of the capital, knowing very well how the believers present there treat him. He came specifically to provoke the people who had just come to the liturgy with his presence. Has he come to harm people? Has he come to spoil the holiday? Has he come to poison the atmosphere once again?

When he and his “few” make fun of the main actors of the opposition, he surely knows, doesn’t he, that they have a very large electorate and they are authorities for hundreds of thousands of citizens. He knows that he directly offends those hundreds of thousands. After that, what kind of reaction does he expect? With the same logic, after rudely insulting the leaders of the opposition, he can get up and go to their rally or congress, allegedly to participate peacefully. We should be ready for this too. There should be a unified position on how to treat an uninvited guest.

It is not possible to publicly insult members of a family and go to their family event. What is the purpose, after all? Provocation? Should he spoil all the holidays and rituals? Should there be joy only in his bus? “Happy bus” wording, as sarcastic, may be good, received, but it turns into “ugly bus”, which is very dangerous,” he wrote.

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