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ARMENIAN PRESIDENT MADE HIS STATEMENT ON CRIMEA WITH DUE REGARD FOR KARABAKH PROBLEM, GERMANY’S AMBASSADOR SAYS

by Ashot Safaryan

ARMINFO
Tuesday, March 25, 20:44

The President of Armenia made his statement on Crimea with due regard
for the Karabakh conflict, German Ambassador to Armenia Reiner Morell
told journalists. According to Morell, Armenia’s leadership recognized
only the peoples’ right to self-determination, not the annexation of
Crimea of Russia.

Morell pointed out that Serzh Sargsyan made his statement in a phone
conversation and then was fixed on the paper, but anyway, it was not
an official stance.

The Ambassador stressed the need to analyze whether Armenia really
agrees with the occupation of Crimea or it just wants to state the
peoples’ right to self-determination. Even the second variant was
not easily perceived, because everyone saw that the developments in
Crimea were not controlled, he said.

To recall, in the March 19 telephone conversation with Russian
President Vladimir Putin, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said
that the referendum in Crimea was one more example of exercise of the
peoples’ right to self-determination through a free expression of will.

KESSAB: DEEP ROOTS UNDER ATTACK

By Lalai Manjikian // March 25, 2014

This article is the second in a two part series written by Armenian
Weekly columnist Lalai Manjikian. To read part I, click here.

Every fall, my father who was born in Kessab, plants tulip bulbs
in his Montreal garden, miles away from his ancestral land. I like
to think he does so in an unspoken homage to Kessab–every year,
renewing his unbreakable connection to his past.

As a child, my first memory of seeing red wild tulips grow in their
element were on the raw mountains of Kessab, as opposed to being neatly
transposed in a living room vase. It was a significant sight, given
the fact that my parents had named me Lalai, which is this flower’s
literary name. Surrounded by wild tulips and towering mountains,
I too felt in my element, feeling a strong relationship with this
mesmerizingly powerful land where my roots originate.

Only a few weeks ago, I browsed through pictures of Kessab in bloom
posted on Facebook. I saw the hopeful images of trees beginning to
blossom, warm Kessabi hatz (bread) straight out of the toneer (stone
oven). Village life seemed to unfold as usual. I caught myself quietly
smiling at pictures of children in Kessab dressed up for Paregentan
in colorful costumes, with their radiating smiles seemingly untainted
from severe civil unrest engulfing the region for the past three
years. These photos provided me with a fragile sense of comfort that
all is fine on the Kessab front, even as I thought of the current
situation in Syria, where Kessab is precariously nestled in the
country’s northwest corner, on the Mediterranean Sea, bordering Turkey.

Only a few weeks ago, I browsed through pictures of Kessab in bloom
posted on Facebook.

A few days ago, like a flash flood, those images of a Kessab spring
were violently shattered. Years of hard labour, sweat, and love left
behind following an attack on this treasured part of Armenian history
dating back to the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia. The predominantly
Armenian enclave of Kessab is now emptied of its Armenian population
that has been there for hundreds of years, after rebel forces descended
on the region from Turkey.

Houses are being looted, Armenians being displaced. We all know
too well this recurring refrain etched in our collective memory,
as history coldly repeats itself.

Over the past few days, anyone who has spent some time under Kessab’s
magical spell or any Armenian for that matter has been taking numerous
stabs in their hearts. Memories flooding our minds, as news trickles
out from the region, and as the international community just watches
with a blank stare, once again.

Perhaps naively, I always wanted to think that Kessab was untouchable,
that it was my only tangible connection to my already devastated family
tree, to my past, to my ancestors, at least on my father’s side. My
mother’s family from the region of Tomarza in the Kayseri province
still stand, but it is was long lost in many ways. Kessab, on the
other hand, has always been alive for me. Accessible, it is living,
breathing Armenian life, where old and new generations solidly overlap,
like interlocking elbows during countless “Garmir fustan” dances
endlessly streaming at weddings, baptisms or massarah/perpoor nights
(grape molasses cooking feasts). A land where tradition is celebrated,
a comforting dialect is spoken, where characters are as unshakable as
the rocks that make Kessab. It is a place that is constantly renewed
with the incessant flow of Kessabtzis coming and going to and from
this enclave, bringing in the new, but also replenishing themselves
with the water, air, food, and unfailing hospitality and genuineness
of this rural marvel, still standing tall and strong like its mountains
in the lap of the Mediterranean Sea.

We all know too well this recurring refrain etched in our collective
memory, as history coldly repeats itself.

Countless lives started on that land. Men and women who perhaps moved
on to other parts of the world, where they exceled in various domains,
but always carried Kessab close to their hearts, and most importantly,
always returned.

It is the only place where generations of my forefathers and mothers
graves are marked, where life came full circle on a land they worked
hard to maintain and where they now rest. A real gift that no one
can afford to lose for a people afflicted with genocide where burials
are scarce.

However days of victimhood are long gone. Resilience and survivorhood
are practically engraved in our genetic make-up, with Kessabtzis being
a special breed amongst Armenians, where will power, perseverance,
and determination are defining common traits.

Spring has arrived in Kessab and as long as the wild tulips will
pop their vivid red heads out, all the inhabitants of Kessab will
eventually return to their homes and lands. All of us in the diaspora
who are connected to Kessab in one way or another will visit again.

Who can give up on what they have loved, nurtured, protected for so
long? Kessabtzis certainly never will.

ARMENIAN KIDNAPPED IN LEBANON IS RELEASED

March 25, 2014 | 00:17

BEIRUT. – Lebanese Armenian George Tamazian, who was recently kidnapped
inLebanon, has been released.

Shahan Kandaharian, Editor-in-Chief of Lebanon’s Aztag Armenian daily,
told the above-said to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

In his words, the law enforcement agencies succeeded in having the
Lebanese citizen released even without ransom.

“[But] there is no political matter here. The kidnapping was not
connected with George Tamazian’s nationality; the matter solely had
a monetary nature,” Kandaharian noted.

As reported earlier, unidentified gunmen in Lebanon recently kidnapped
Lebanese Armenian George Tamazian. The kidnapping victim’s brother,
Ara Tamazian, had informed that the he had received a message from
the kidnappers, who had asked for a $50,000 ransom.

News from Armenia – NEWS.am

CANADIAN PM URGED TO CALL UPON TURKEY TO PREVENT ANY INCURSIONS INTO SYRIAN TERRITORY

14:50 25.03.2014

Canada, Kessab, Syria

Dr. Girair Basmadjian, President of the Armenian National Committee
of Canada, has addressed a letter to Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen
Harper, regarding the situation in Kessab, Syria. The letter reads:

“On behalf of the Armenian National Committee of Canada, and Canadians
of Armenian origin, I would like to bring your attention an urgent
matter concerning the Syrian Armenian community of Kassab. As you
may be aware, the Armenian-populated region of Kassab has been the
location of a recent attack in Syrian territory from Turkey by al
Qaeda linked fighters.

Kassab is the last remaining outpost of the medieval Armenian
principality of Cilicia. Kassab has had a constant Armenian population
for almost one thousand years. Although the area has been subject
to many disputes between various countries seeking control and to
significant persecution of its Armenian population during the Ottoman
Empire (including massacres in 1909 and deportation of much of its
population during the Armenian Genocide in 1915), until this week’s
evacuation, the Christian population has never had to completely flee
the region.

As we write, al Qaeda members roam the streets of Kassab and the
surrounding Christian and Alawite villages. There are confirmed reports
of armed men raising al Qaeda banners over Armenian churches and
Alawite mosques and making threats to kill all Christians and Alawites
found in those communities. Fortunately, the civilian population
of Kassab was able to flee to Latakia prior to the arrival of these
terrorist- attackers.

This already dire situation is compounded by the fact that these
fighters crossed into Kassab from Turkey and seem to have the tacit
approval of Turkish authorities to carry out this attack. As you can
appreciate, the Armenian population of Kassab, which suffered under
the Ottoman Empire, is especially afraid that these attacks are an
attempt by Turkey to displace the last elements of the indigenous
Armenian population of Cilicia.

We request a meeting to discuss this matter with you in person at
your earliest convenience. In advance of this meeting, recognizing
the urgency of the situation, we have set out our suggestions for
ways in which Canada may act to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe
and help to uphold the international laws of warfare.

We ask that Canada call upon all sides to the conflict to immediately
cease all hostilities in the region and allow the return of the
civilian population. We would hope that this could serve as an example
for the broader conflict as well and help to bring peace to Syria.

Additionally, we ask that Canada call upon Turkey to take all
steps necessary to secure its border and prevent any incursions
into Syrian territory. We also ask Canada to request that Turkey
explicitly disavow its support of all al Qaeda affiliated groups
in the region and to ensure that these groups are expelled from its
territory immediately. We believe that by depriving al Qaeda of its
safe havens and removing the element of religious extremism and ethnic
hatred from the conflict, the Syrian people can choose their destiny
without fear that a change in government would lead to genocide of
its Christian and Alawite population. The Armenian population of
Syria has maintained its neutrality throughout the recent conflict,
but has always made it clear that it can not accept a government
whose stated goal is the elimination of all minorities from Syria.

Finally, we ask that Canada direct a portion of the assistance
allocated for Syrian assistance to the evacuated population of Kassab
which is now living in difficult circumstances.

We commend you for Canada’s principled stand on the protection of the
rights of minorities in Syria and for Canada’s generous contributions
to help Syria’s civilian population and Syrian refugees. We believe
that based on Canada’s strong record in this area, Canada and its
allies can play an important role in guaranteeing the safety of
Syria’s historically important Christian community and in making
sure that non-combatants are not displaced from their homes by acts
of terrorism contrary to any recognized law of war.

Thank you for all that you have done for the Syrian people and the
Armenian-Canadian community and we hope that you continue to come to
the assistance of a people whose lives are under serious threat.”

ANC AUSTRALIA REQUESTS GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR ARMENIANS OF KESSAB

12:58 25.03.2014

The Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC Australia) has
written to Julie Bishop, Australia’s Foreign Minister, requesting her
government calls on Turkey to “immediately cease the ongoing attacks
by various Al-Qaeda affiliated foreign fighters who have targeted the
civilian population in the predominately Armenian region of Kessab,
Syria”.

The recently-peaceful Kessab, a historically Christian Armenian
region in Syria, was on March 21st subject to attacks by hundreds of
terrorists entering from bordering Turkey.

Under the threat of slaughter, the entire Armenian population of the
region was forced to flee their homes to neighbouring towns, including
Latakia and Bassit. Some were not so lucky and have reportedly been
taken hostage, while churches and homes have been destroyed.

ANC Australia’s letter to Bishop reads: “Turkey’s involvement in
the facilitation of Al-Qaeda affiliated foreign fighters and their
attacks on innocent civilians in Syria will only lead to the hindrance
of international efforts to bring peace and stability to a country,
which has seen a conflict rage for over three years.”

“The actions of Turkey are a bitter reminder to Armenians still living
in the region and around the world of the genocide committed against
the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian communities by the Ottoman Turkish
authorities from 1915-1923.”

ANC Australia has called on Australia to exercise its leadership
position within the international community to put an end to this
breach of human rights.

“Australia, in its capacity as President of the United Nations
Security Council, has the moral and legal obligation to stop Turkey’s
provocations and the assistance it provides to these radical groups.”

“As foreign minister of the Commonwealth of Australia we call upon you
to press Turkey to stop facilitating such attacks in the Kessab region
and to investigate the reports of Turkey’s involvement with foreign
fighters, which have been designated as terrorist groups by Australia.”

ANC Australia’s Executive Director, Vache Kahramanian said: “We
cannot sit idly by and allow such overt breaches of human rights
under the guise of war. Australia must act, and the Armenian National
Committee pledges to do all it can to advocate for this on behalf of
our community, many of whom have relatives in Kessab.”

L’ARMENIE VA INTRODUIRE DES ALLEGEMENTS FISCAUX POUR LES STARTUPS DU SECTEUR DES HAUTES TECHNOLOGIES

ARMENIE

Le gouvernement armenien a decide d’offrir aux entreprises du secteur
des technologies de l’information d’importants allegements fiscaux
dont elle espère qu’ils donneront un nouvel elan a l’un des secteurs
les plus dynamiques de l’economie d’Armenie.

Le gouvernement a approuve un projet de modifications juridiques
qui dispenserait les entreprises informatiques nouvellement creees
employant jusqu’a 15 personnes de l’impôt sur le benefice pendant
trois ans. Le projet de loi prevoit egalement un taux d’impôt sur le
revenu preferentiel pour leurs employes, ce qui equivaut a 10 pour
cent de leur salaire brut. Le taux d’impôt sur les salaires minimum
en Armenie est actuellement fixe a 24,4 pour cent.

Presentant le projet de loi qui sera certainement etre adopte par le
Parlement, le ministre de l’Economie Vahram Avanesian a declare que le
gouvernement s’attend a ce qu’entre 40 et 60 startups informatiques
se creeront chaque annee grâce a des allegements fiscaux. Il a dit
qu’ils encourageront egalement les logiciels etrangers et les societes
de conception de puces deja presentes en Armenie a enregistrer leurs
filiales auprès des autorites fiscales locales.

Le Premier ministre Tigran Sarkissian a egalement souligne l’importance
des mesures incitatives proposees pour l’industrie naissante de
l’informatique de l’Armenie. >
a-t-il dit lors d’une seance hebdomadaire de son cabinet .

Tigran Sarkissian a promis le soutien du gouvernement pour le secteur
quand il vante son expansion rapide lors d’une conference qui s’est
tenue a Erevan en Octobre dernier. Il a dit que les entreprises
sont devenus > aux entreprises minières axees sur
l’exportation de l’Armenie en termes de production et de main-d’oeuvre
employee.

Il y a actuellement quelque 300 de ces entreprises qui emploient entre
7000 et 10000 ingenieurs. Selon les donnees du gouvernement, le secteur
a connu une croissance moyenne de 23 pour cent par an pour la periode
2008-2012. Sa production s’elevait a environ 244 millions de $ en 2012.

Plus tôt en 2013, Tigran Sarkissian et le ministre russe des Transports
Maxim Sokolov avaient inaugure la première zone franchise d’entreprises
d’Armenie creee pour les entreprises de la haute technologie. Elle
est situee dans les locaux d’une usine d’electronique et comprend un
institut de recherche a Erevan gere par une societe russe.

Une joint-venture americano-armenienne, Armtab Technologies, est
devenue en Decembre l’une des premières societes autorisees par le
gouvernement armenien a operer dans le paradis fiscal. Armtab prevoit
de commencer a assembler les tablettes cette annee.

mardi 25 mars 2014, Stephane (c)armenews.com

LE PRESIDENT SERGE SARKISSIAN S’EXPRIME AU SUJET DES EVENEMENTS DE KESSAB

HOLLANDE

Le president Serge Sarkissian s’est exprime hier au sujet des
evenements de Kessab depuis La Haye où il se trouve pour le sommet
consacre a la denuclearisation.

Le president a exprime sa profonde emotion au sujet des evenements
qui se deroulent a Kessab : > a insiste le
president Sarkissian. Après avoir remercie les autorites syriennes
pour les mesures prises pour la protection des Armeniens de Kessab,
le president Sarkissian a rajoute : >. Le president S. Sarkissian a assure que l’ambassade d’Armenie en
Syrie travaille a un plan de soutien des Armeniens de Kessab qui sera
integralement realise.

Le bureau d’information de la Presidence de la Republique a par
ailleurs annonce qu’aujourd’hui meme, le President s’etait entretenu de
la situation avec le Catholicos Aram I de la Grande Maison de Cilicie.

Sahag

mardi 25 mars 2014, Stephane (c)armenews.com

US Armenian group says Turkey assisting rebels in Kessab
25 March 2014 /Ä°STANBUL, TODAY’S ZAMAN

An influential Armenian group based in the United States has claimed
that Turkey facilitated attacks by rebels on a largely Armenian town
in Syria on the Turkish border and has urged the US administration and
Congress to pressure Ankara to end its support.

Fighters from an array of rebel groups, including the al-Qaeda-linked
al-Nusra Front — designated as a terrorist group by the US — seized
the control of the town of Kessab on Sunday, two days after the rebels
launched an offensive. Most of the Armenian residents of the town,
which is located in northwestern Syria and is administratively a part
of Latakia province, fled after the attacks began.

The Syrian government as well as several Armenian websites claim that
the rebels entered Syria from Turkey. In a strongly worded statement
released on Monday, the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA)
quoted its chairman, Ken Hachikian as saying, “The attacks on the
predominantly Armenian-populated village of Kessab over the weekend
represent an attack on all Armenians.’

`The Armenian-American community stands united in seeking to reverse
the events of the last several days, which has seen militant
extremists stream into Kessab from Turkey. We are strongly urging our
government, led by President [Barack] Obama and congressional leaders,
to send a firm message to Ankara that the safe haven and safe passage
being offered to these militant groups intent on destroying Kessab
must end,” Hachikian said.

He urged the US administration to direct Secretary of State John
Kerry, the US ambassador to Turkey and the US ambassador to the United
Nations `to demand that Turkey halt the cross-border attacks on
Kessab,’ according to the ANCA statement.

In a letter addressed to Obama, Hachikian said: `Turkey’s facilitation
of al-Qaeda affiliated foreign fighters and their attacks on innocent
civilians in Syria undermines ongoing US and international efforts to
bring peace to a country ravaged by violence for far too long. For
Armenians in the region and around the world, Turkey’s actions are a
horrifying and bitter reminder of the genocide committed against the
Armenian, Pontian and Syriac communities by Ottoman Turkish
authorities from 1915-1923.

The United States has the power to stop Turkey’s provocations and
assistance to these radical groups and send a clear message that
targeted military strikes against innocent civilians is unacceptable
under any circumstances and a clear violation of international law. We
call on you to direct Secretary of State John Kerry, US Ambassador to
the Republic of Turkey Francis Ricciardone and US Ambassador to the
United Nations Samantha Power to immediately press Turkey to stop
facilitating attacks on civilians in Kessab and investigate Turkey’s
reported assistance to foreign fighters associated with US-designated
terrorist groups. We, furthermore, ask your assistance in directing
need-based humanitarian aid to the victims of the onslaught on Kessab
as soon as possible.’

RUSSIA, CRIMEA AND THE RUMBLE OF SABERS IN THE CAUCASUS

[ Part 2.2: “Attached Text” ]

BY MARCELO CANTELMI

International Panorama

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03/22/14
Translated from Spanish

When dropped the pro-Russian government of Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine
and the event was read both as a blow to the legs of the Kremlin as
the threshold to a renewed partnership is with the West,circulated
an intense rumor sabers and impending war in a region key Southeast
Caucasus.

The version that was much more than that and had not transpired so far,
denounced a robust mobilization of troops and supplies from Azerbaijan
oil state on the borders of Armenia.

These two countries have a chronic dispute over the sovereignty of
Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory of Armenian historical roots in times
of the USSR, which integrated both the dictator Joseph Stalin will
transfer to Azerbaijani regime. When the Soviet Union entered its
cycle decomposition in the late 80s, the parliament of the autonomous
region voted for reunification with Armenia which was ratified by a
referendum, a similar cycle that just happened with Crimea.

Azerbaijan did not accept this decision. The result was a bloody
war fought between February 1988 and May 1994 and ended with a
precarious ceasefire under international supervision. In the midst
of this conflict, the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and became the
current enclave Boscosa Republic of Nagorno Karabakh, a wasteland
of little over 4,500 km2 and 200,000 inhabitants recognized only by
their motherland in Yerevan.

The information circulated about this silent military offensive
assault detailing a handful of days, bombing and artillery and that
would settle with the destruction of the capital of the enclave,
Stepanakert, the total or partial seizure of territory and a strong
armed pressure on Armenia to detain.

Those rumors and arrived vanished.

All, however, makes sense in that sandbox.

These disturbing reports were born simultaneously with the Russian
crude reverse the loss of the puppet government that had mounted
in Kiev. This result is considered it, perhaps with exaggerated
impressionist fee, and the brake to the expansive ambitions of Moscow
determined to start his own Eurasian market without Ukraine would
lose much of its sustainability. When Moscow regained the initiative
taking control of the pro-Russian province of Crimea on the Black Sea,
the sandbox is rolling almost immediately runrunes and immediately
went out offensive in the Caucasus.

West, surprised by the Russian move, locked himself in denouncing the
operation was illegal and in violation of territorial integrity pacts
that the Kremlin had even signed with Ukraine itself. It is true.But
Moscow, as analysts warned even in the U.S., never observed this
conflict in legal, but geopolitical terms. They are not the same thing.

Interestingly, in that sense what moves in the background of these war
games. Azerbaijan is a state that has a turcofono carnal alliance with
Turkey is the other regional power, which like Russia, achieved strong
economic and political development over the past decade.Partnerships
Turkey are sharp. It belongs to NATO and its port of Ceyhan is the
end of a giant pipeline that is born in the Azeri-Chirag oil field in
the Caspian Sea Guneshli, crossing Georgia passing over the northern
border of Armenia to reach the Mediterranean.

That product called BTC, the acronym of Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital,
Tbilisi, Georgia and the Ceyhan indicated, carries an extraordinary
volume of crude oil to 1.5 barrels . That above all the daily
production of Iran or slightly less than Venezuela, revealed by its
size the political commitment to support that work flow. In literal
termsis an authentic western border of the Kremlin’s own beards.

Moscow is a historic ally of Armenia whose government recently signed
affiliation to future Eurasian market. A few hours ago Yerevan is also
quick to recognize as legitimate the annexation of Crimea by Russia and
disavowed any possibility that Ukraine and Georgia joining NATO. The
gesture should be understood as a matter of basic loyaltiesrushed for
self defense, but also because Armenia aspires to the same development
of integration with your unredeemed enclave.

The episode of saber rattling little known that we have here, is the
importance of clearly exposing the delicate and sensitive tissue on
the space that is developing this new conflict between Russia and the
West . As a table with her legs loose, depending on where pressure
is exerted will twist to one side or another, but the main challenge
is to stay balanced. An example of the level of chaos reveals a
fact that also had little consequence in this part of the world on
Wednesday, a soldier of 20 years old Army Nagorno was shot dead by an
Azerbaijani sniper shot him in the northern border enclave. Another,
19, was seriously injured.

So far the biggest crisis the Crimea, exhibits an unstable result
tables.Russian President Vladimir Putin lost its influence in Ukraine,
but appropriated the strategic peninsula. There, as is well known,
lies the Russian war fleet Black Sea.

There has also been a flowery sanctions crossing between the U.S.,
its allies and Russia itself have been vetoed each entry visas for
certain personalities. But nothing too radical. The strong data
brought him the Turkish premier Recep Erdogan who took the lead and
raised the possibility that his country no less than closing the
Bosphorus, the door on the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. I would,
threatened, whether any negative development occurred against the
Tatars in Crimea Muslims living as an important anti Russian minority
in that region. Ankara, in keeping with its allies, also defended the
territorial integrity of Ukraine, rejected the referendum illegitimate
used by the Kremlin to validate the annexation and threatened that if
NATO takes any action, Turkey simply be there.What does it mean? In
principle they are voices that warn that this story is just beginning.

SPEAK ABRAHAMYAN’S IDIOSYNCRASY

Lragir.am
Politics – Monday, 24 March 2014, 16:45

Member of Parliament Tevan Poghosyan brought up the issue of the
Armenian town of Kesab in Syria. It has become known that the town
was shelled from Turkey, and the population was evacuated. The member
of parliament inquired about what measures will be taken.

In answer to him Hovik Abrahamyan said our compatriots are in a
complicated situation but it is meaningless to speak about any plan
of actions. “Being a state, the Republic of Armenia is not entitled
to interfere with the domestic affairs of another state, it is a deep
issue,” Hovik Abrahamyan said.

If it is a deep issue, it then requires intelligence. However, Hovik
Abrahamyan thinks that one does not need a big intelligence to deal
with politics. In other words, there is some dissonance, and it is
not understood whether the issue of Kesab is political or not.

It seemed that the Armenian political class is close to nirvana. All
the duties and burdens were laid on Russia’s shoulders. And the four
political forces and the RPA are trying to arrange in a way to make
sure that nobody gets in and spoils their nirvana. And Hovik has
assumed the most convenient position – the joker. What would be
more intelligent?

One needs intelligence to spoil the electoral mechanisms, distribute
business quotas, trade government positions, deceive and deprive
people. If something unusual happens somewhere which must be dealt
with, it causes indigestion, a nervous breakdown etc. And they suddenly
remember that Armenia is a state and has no right to interfere,
express an opinion and stance etc.

And one more thing – whenever they are unable to figure out something,
they take to mystery – “this is a deep issue”. And deep inside it is
usual fear, instinctive fear of things and the world that is beyond
their brains that threats their nirvana.

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