In the “Pressing” program Satik Seyranyan the guest is political scientist Anush Sedrakyan is.

The main theses of the interview are below.

• It is clear that there is an order from the higher courts of the European Union to support Nikol Pashinyan. But in Europe, in the West, there are organizations, observers, journalists who cannot close their eyes to what is happening in Armenia. Yes, the narrative of supporting Pashinyan is firmly established in Europe, but it should also be noted that Russia is also reacting very weakly. Russia, by blocking the entry of Armenian agricultural products to the Russian market, is punishing the people of Armenia, so what? Russia has a million and one levers to punish the government. Let me take an example: kompromat. Why don’t they publish? 

We live in a paradigm of collusion. If at one time I was an unimportant person in Robert Kocharyan’s administration, I know so much, but they don’t know how much?

• Lumpening of the Armenian people has been taking place for decades. Everything works, only the last resort of Bolshevism, mass extermination, does not work:

• We were in the eastern focus of European civilization. Respect for women has always been there. And now, in the era of CP ideology, man is rising up to fight against woman.

• The only currency in this world is the resistance to dignity, national dignity. There are two countries standing at the ends of that narrative. I’m talking about the Ukrainian and Iranian resistance. It is better for the land to be yours, for someone else to use your minerals, but not to give the land, or the minerals, or the corridor, or everything, and not allow you to talk about your national goals, independence aspirations. All branches of possible resistance are being broken with us. We were defeated, maybe we were weak and incompetent, we were defeated, but we should not have been convinced that our defeat is our happiness, as Nikol Pashinyan does.:

• It is a great pain for me that western values ​​are associated with this CP government.

• Let’s admit that, unlike our government, there is a patriotic government in Azerbaijan, Israel, and Iran. 

• The alternative to struggle is destruction, the loss of the state:

• Where there has been a revolution in the West, its leaders have been severely punished. Zelensky was punished because his life is not a life, Saakashvili, who is in prison today, was punished. Let’s remember that their first words were the words “European integration”. But let someone draw my attention to a pro-Western speech of CP when he had just come to power.

• “Synopsys”, “ArmRusgazprom”, “Tashir”, Robert Kocharyan’s team, whom I saw from the first day in the ranks of the 2018 revolution, if they did not take to the streets on those days, there would be no revolution, and if it were not for Russia’s desire, some of the companies and individuals I mentioned would not have come out…

• In front of my eyes, they have stolen the agenda of Westernism and are using it to make our country undemocratic and poor.

• I don’t understand what it is about TRIPP that so proportionally benefits everyone.

• Elections are expected in France, and everyone is now carefully thinking about how to win the votes of the French-Armenian electorate.

• I cannot advise the opposition, but I can express an opinion. I think mandates should not be taken only for the people. Half of the people of Armenia are depressed and have packed their bags. The other part says: they deceived us, now they will take the mandates, sit in the parliament… You cannot enter an environment and not play by their laws… This is a virus. Nikol Pashinyan will find a magic way to form a constitutional majority. To avoid this, one should not simply take the mandates, because if PAP and Unity Wings refuse, it will bring the parties with few votes, and it will make such noise that they will think before taking that step.

• If the opposition forces do not take the mandates, the confidence of the people returns, and the possibility of legal solutions increases. There are no street people in our opposition. They are businessmen, rich, well-fed, working people, they are not from pubs like KP, from NGOs to collect, bring them to the streets, so that they have nowhere to go… Our opposition does not have lumpen massa. One is me. I will go for a day or two, I will sit on the street, I can’t do it anymore. I have so many work obligations that they will come, they will pour on me, I won’t get out from under them: If they go to the Parliament, they will become the enforcers of Nikol Pashinyan’s decisions, not because they are bad, but because they have no other option.:

• Political bespredel is not given to any opposition team as successfully as CP. They go to wa-bank because for them power is an existential, life-death issue. CP is the sponsor of political bespredel.

• The whole world knows that Nikol Pashinyan has no legitimacy, and if they are still silent now, it is only temporary…

• If there is an interest, the negotiations will not end well, if there is a goal, you can register success. Going after Shah is devastating. I know this by personal example.

• I have voiced something everywhere: my personality in connection with the dispute with YSU is one-tenth. I think I have reached an understanding. My task is to preserve the chair of foreign literature as a cultural value. I hope the best solution will be found:

• America is still on a mission to liberate people. They do not want to accept that the fate of their countries should be decided by the people.

• The CP will be wise, it will not attack the church with new momentum, because the main reason for their defeat was the attack on the church. If they try again, they will fail very quickly. The questions should be ideological: has any member of “Word of Life” been able to vote for the opposition… Of course not. Who is instructed: them or Armenians? A:the ministers of the Rachel church:

• The name of the Soviet Bolshevik will be changed to the name of the Armenian hero. If you’re bringing up historical figures, you shouldn’t bring up a controversial name. Dear pro-European Nikol Pashinyan, why wasn’t Amiryan street named after one of the women of Armenian noble lineage, for example, Aitsemniki? What sexism is that?

• People are tired of circuses and fighting for interests. This nation should have a goal, as Artsakh had in 1988, but not a false goal. We cannot do big things, everyone should do something small for that purpose. Geopolitically, we should pray every day that the Iran-US conflict will end as soon as possible, that Iran will enter the game with its victory speech, but we must be ready for it, and are we ready… No.

• The worthy children of the nation should be loved inside, they should not be loved outside. Nzhdeh should be appreciated and worshiped in Armenia, and let them call him a terrorist in Russia.

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