Gas technologist Armen Badalyan In other words, certain steps towards the consolidation of the opposition in Armenia after the elections, the arrest of the leader of the “Prosperous Armenia” party Gagik Tsarukyan and other internal political processes seem to be happening separately, but all these are different details of the same process.

“Why Gagik Tsarukyan? It is not the case that the PAP leader received the most votes during the elections and represents the greatest political threat to the ruling political force. Therefore, the arrest process of Gagik Tsarukyan should be considered in the context of Armenian-Russian relations.

In particular, it is no secret that last week at the “Edina Russia” party’s congress, the head of the party mentioned the name of Gagik Tsarukyan, stating that: “Violence is being carried out against the opposition in Armenia, the best example is the persecution of Gagik Tsarukyan.”

In other words, civil-“legal” processes are being carried out against Gagik Tsarukyan, parallel to which, Pashinyan is going to Russia to meet with Mishustin, trying to make this issue an object of political trade. He was trying to make it so that pro-Russian politicians can be released if Russia cancels economic restrictions on Armenia.” 168.amArmen Badalyan said in a conversation with

According to him, the Russian authorities are firm in their decision, and Nikol Pashinyan’s meeting with Mishustin also did not change anything, that is, the relevant structures of the Russian Federation did not cancel their decisions regarding restrictions on the export of goods.

“All this means that Nikol Pashinyan did not come to a common denominator with the Russian Prime Minister, that’s why the arrest process of Gagik Tsarukyan took place. Another big businessman, Samvel Karapetyan, leader of the “Strong Armenia” party, is also detained by this government.

We should look at the process of Gagik Tsarukyan’s arrest in the context of making that political trade, not in the context that he was a threat to the authorities, especially since he did not even have a deputy in the parliament,” stressed the civil technologist.

According to his observation, at the moment the three forces in the opposition field, the “Strong Armenia” party, the People’s Party of Armenia and the “Armenia” alliance, are united, other opposition forces will not unite with them. According to him, it is mainly these forces that can do any action.

“The internal political processes of Armenia should not be presented as purely internal Armenian processes, they are in the context of the ongoing struggle between Russia, the West, the EU, Great Britain. One front of the struggle is Ukraine, which has a military format, the second front is RA, which still has a political struggle format.

In all these processes, the RA economy suffers, which is exhausted and suffering losses. And as a result of all that, everyone will suffer. The reflection of all this was on May 30, the EAEU announcement, and the bell of all this will ring at the end of the year, on December 30. The Russian Federation will try to do everything in order to dismantle this government in Armenia, otherwise, most likely, Armenia will be pushed out of the EAEU, after which the Armenian economy will face collapse. Let’s not forget about gas, whose price increase will directly affect the economy,” emphasized Armen Badalyan.

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