Category: 2018

Pass of the week

JUNE 1, 2018

 

 

 

 

Q:Iran celebrated the Republic Day on May 28. One hundred years ago, on this day, the Republic of Armenia was proclaimed, and after a break of nearly nine centuries, Armenian statehood was restored in the Armenian Highlands. The Presidents of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, the Catholicos of All Armenians, the President of the National Assembly of Armenia, other high-ranking officials, public and political figures, organizations delivered congratulatory messages on the occasion of the holiday. Armenian leaders, Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II, as well as the President of Nagorno-Karabakh visited the Sardarapat Memorial, where a military parade took place. other ceremonies were held. The parade was welcomed by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who announced in his speech, in particular, that on the 100th anniversary of the First Republic, the Armenian people are living the glorious page of their civil history, and today the irreversible rule of the people is established in Armenia. In the evening, a festive concert and fireworks were held in the capital’s Republic Square. High-ranking foreign delegations and guests also participated in the jubilee ceremonies.

…of the First Republic
unlike previous years, there were no events dedicated to the centenary participates National meeting president Do it Babloyan,
as well as vice-presidents and heads of standing committees. “This year manifest is other approach,
In response to the question of “Freedom”, he said to the Parliament staff deputy head Arsen Babayan,
this time as part of the “trio” that traditionally conducts the official part of the event National
meeting speaker not included but be invited is the RPA allocated to the faction three deputies in line”. That
brought up the dissatisfaction of the Republican deputies, because before
the parliament as depending on the government branch, of ritual agree, invited
was whole composition. Babloyan find that legislator towards manifest is “No equivalent attitude”. And? RPA:
faction deputy Armen Ashotyan in this regard is a concern
announced on his Facebook page. “First Republic and Sardarapati
unity was one of the main symbols of the battle. Today’s
the holiday is not anyone’s property, it is not anyone’s “class party”, anyone’s
not a family and personal event. The day symbolizing the restoration of the state
revaluation of state institutions evaluation
it is also the day, regardless of the heroes of the day, active persons and “new
from the realities,” Ashotyan specifically wrote. The incident “took a heavy toll” as well
Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Arpine Hovhannisyan, who despite those days in Armenia
It wasn’t but Aravot.amof in conversation with
shared his anger. “Always the same type case no been, this obvious discrimination is This no don’t contact does not have no with unity, no email in general pro-state way of thinking with”
said the deputy speaker of the National Assembly. The other deputy speaker, Eduard Sharmazanov, personally
He blames the Prime Minister for not inviting him and considers it Nikol Pashinyan’s fault
the biggest omission. The remarkable thing is that in the mind of Ashotyans and Sharmazanovs
does not even pass the most obvious. The road to Sardarapat was open to everyone, and
those who wanted could visit and pay their respects without waiting for a special invitation
pay tribute to the memory of the martyrs of the Great Heroic War. Okay, so where were they?
at the time when Serzh Sargsyan was nominating a member of the Security Council
exclusively “own”, leaving out even the president of the country from that list
and the speaker of the same National Assembly. Why didn’t they unmask when?
The president-in-charge of the super-prime state was actually usurping
power, setting himself up as a one-wheeled dictator.

To the Legislature
some analysts see in the attitude of the new executive power
a symbolic action announcing the start of the dissolution of the parliament. By: 1in.am website:
of political analyst, Nicole Pashinyan this step by step clear message is to reference that emergency elections preparation her government priority is “Like attitude demonstrative political action through which Pashinyan clear in review is that active the parliament out is put from the state system, legitimacy from environment, it legal and political from the context which of new Armenia result ”
writes the site’s analyst. Either way holiday from events National
meeting management’s “exit” step,
apparently, the secret hope of “revival” is aimed at the Republicans
to the former faces of the majority. The hint advice is as follows. dear
ladies and gentlemen, realize once and for all a simple fact: a return to the past
there is no more, that road is very firmly closed.

 

M:On August 30, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan left for Georgia on a two-day official visit. This was Pashinyan’s second foreign visit after the meeting of leaders of the Eurasian Union countries in Sochi. The Prime Minister was accompanied by a number of members of the Government, including Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs Davit Tonoyan and Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan. Before the official meetings in Tbilisi, Pashinyan first laid a wreath at the Unquenchable Fire in Heros Square, then went to the Cabinet, where a private meeting with his Georgian counterpart Giorgi Kvirikashvili was scheduled, an extended meeting, after which the two Prime Ministers made a statement to journalists. The Prime Minister of Armenia also met with the President of Georgia and the Speaker of the Parliament, visited Khojivank Armenian Cemetery, Saint Gevorg Armenian Church, had meetings with representatives of the Armenian community, Georgian-Armenian and Georgian businessmen. The next day, on May 31, Pashinyan was received by the spiritual leader of Georgia, Patriarch Ilya II. The newly elected Prime Minister of Armenia went to Zavakhk from Tbilisi.

…Georgia Nicole: Pashinyan official visit first the day equipped was high level negotiations and with meetings. of Georgia of the Prime Minister at the residence two the prime ministers of the countries to a private conversation followed extended composition meeting, then Kvirikashvilinev
Pashinyan journal they came with statement: reflection
performing as well In Armenia appropriate to the change of power. of Georgia the prime minister greeted in RA of power the peaceful transfer, and Pashinyan said that created the situation need is to serve in: benefit Armenian-Georgian of relations.
“We came we are այստեղ՝ specifically perspectives, concrete problems solution opportunity to create for Convinced I am that in our relationship will be serious and: new developments that will follow Armenia and Georgia interests. We sure that Armenian-Georgian in relationships There are no unsolvable problems at all, because most important factor problems resolution is and: the wish… By: essentially, we located we are our relationship development don’t resort where opportunity there is big charge, large momentum and big energize our bilateral to relationships and:
them to deepen all directions and at all levels.”
said Pashinyan. of the day during, except official
from meetings, Armenia the delegation led by the Prime Minister to visit
is Khojivank the pantheon-cemetery where he rests
are Armenian մտավորականների՝ Raffu, John Tumanyan, Sundukyan and: others the remains. Also in Khojivank in summary
on the first day of the visit, Pashinyan noted: “It was the first visit, and it was a familiar one significance had
Can you? i am to say that in: face of the Prime Minister of Georgia, the President,
Hand of the President of the National Assembly I brought ok friends, and sure i am
that of our countries the relationship will develop that to friendship consistent.” From Khojivank to Armenia the prime minister to travel
is St. Gevorg Armenian church of which in the yard big number of Georgian-Armenians were get together There Pashinyan is a speech had
and: communicate of those gathered with
And in the evening? of Georgia of the city council in the building be noted
of Armenia First The 100th anniversary of the Republic. Speeches were given by Nicole Pashinyan and his Georgian partner Giorgi Kvirikashvili.

The second day of the visit was full of intense events.
Armenia in the morning the prime minister had breakfast with Georgian businessmen
with, discussed are In Armenia investment questions, Mr. Pashinyan to visit
is “John Tumanyan home” cultural center. Here High rank of Armenia
a doll was prepared for the guests presentation:
with Tumanian motifs, as well as tea hospitality. That much official meetings are over
and in the second half of the day, the delegation headed by Pashinyan left Tbilisi Armenian-born Javakhk: no series in the villages stops doing, and Ninotsminda and Akhalkalak meetings in the cities again holding Armenian community with representatives. A secret
not for years continuously the locals speaking up are their problems about related to Georgian in schools Armenian of language teaching, ecclesiastical
with activities and others. Naturally, there is much to be said within these topics
audibly great our compatriots needed.

Armenia-Georgia of relations around Georgia’s “First channel” in an exclusive interview Nicole: Pashinyan’s opinion
stated that between the two countries should be formed geopolitical from effects free relationship.
Georgia Nikol Pashinyan first official the visit, according to some political of commenters, reflection of Armenia natural interests the whole
which implies in the case of the new government of our country the most sincere
relationship objective steps and bold initiatives.

 

Gevorg Lalayan commented

 

 

Foreign Policy journal
referred to the news spread on May 29 that outside his apartment in Kyiv
time to come was killed Russia
another Russian journalist criticizing the regime of President Vladimir Putin.
The prime minister of Ukraine was murdered accused “Russian totalitarian
to the car.” On May 30, the journalist continues alive and well journal
came to the press conference, admitting that it was for the security of Ukraine
special service operation to “catch a Russian hitman.”
In fact, according to the journal, the “murder” of journalist Arkady Babchenko was staged
to identify Russian agents.

Presented
also details from Babchenko’s biography. Accordingly, he, as a soldier,
served in two brutal wars waged by Russia in Chechnya and as a result
to write “One Soldier’s War” with the title
memoir. Babchenko later worked as a military correspondent
cover the Russian invasions of Georgia and
Ukraine. He never wavered from the Kremlin’s aggressive foreign policy
from criticizing. However, he had to leave Russia in 2017 after on the Facebook page expressed
his indifference on the plane to Syria that had crashed,
on the death of members of the military choir, which by the nationalists
raised a strong wave of protest. About the events of that period he separately
British published an article The Guardianin the periodical.

of Ukraine
According to the head of the security service, there is evidence to kill Babchenko
for the Russian intelligence agents to the Ukrainian hired killer 40 thousand
dollars were paid.

 

Prepared by Marina Muradyan

 

 

 

Free chair

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JUNE 1, 2018

 

 

 

Last week the entire Armenian people
solemnly celebrated the 100th anniversary of the formation of the First Republic.
The celebrations were traditionally held at Sardarapat, where for a hundred years
The suffering Armenian people found strength in themselves and defeated the Turkish army. However,
as the Russians say, “a spoonful of oil in a barrel of honey” was found. National Assembly
The members of the Republican faction made a big noise that it was not theirs
invited to Sardarapat to celebrate that jubilee.

“May 28 is a national and national holiday, and so am I
I consider it absurd not to invite the leaders of the legislative body to the event.” NEWS.amDeputy speaker of the National Assembly, RPA press secretary Eduard said in a conversation with the correspondent of
Sharmazanov, noting that the 100th anniversary of the First Republic in Sardarapat
13 members of the National Assembly were invited to the events, only three of them were from the RPA.
He was responded to by a deputy of the same faction, the vice-president of the party, Armen
Ashotyan. “Today’s holiday is not the property of anyone, of anyone’s class
It’s not a party, it’s not someone’s family and personal event… It’s surprising when
people who consider themselves adequate try to justify today’s celebrations
Defeat of the issue of proper participation of the National Assembly. And unfortunately, it was done on purpose
approach contradicts both the advice of the day, unity, and “love and
to the calls of “solidarity”, Ashotyan noted.

Thus, for the first time, the legislative power, which is the parliamentary majority, spoke publicly against the executive power. And this is commendable, because we are finally witnessing the real separation of legislative and executive powers. For the first time, the parliamentary majority acted as a real counterweight to the executive power. And why did this happen only recently, when Nikol Pashinyan came to power with his young team? Why didn’t something like this happen for at least the last twenty years, when the legislature unconditionally, without thinking about the consequences of the steps, made the decisions that were presented for signing by the executive power in the person of the President of the Republic of Armenia. This is worth thinking about.

When many constitutions were written in favor of this
or that president, the NA with its majority composition never voted. When?
Executive of the Ministry of Justice headed by Davit Harutyunyan
The government body developed the “Security Council formation and activity
about” law, the parliamentary majority voted “for” without a word. Is it?
when passing this law, they thought about the interests of the state, or realized
were that by adopting a law in that form, neither the president of the parliament nor the country
the president will not be a member of the Council. All other board members prospective
They worked under the authority of Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan, the Security Council
Secretary, Minister of Defense, Minister of Foreign Affairs, National
the director of the security service, the chief of the police, the general staff of the army
the boss In fact, a complete usurpation of power by Sargsyan was taking place
by He was the one who decided the fate of the entire country and the entire Armenian people. What if something?
place “wrong?” Who would be responsible then? Is it?
Did the Sharmazanovs and Ashotyans think about it? So why it?
at that time they did not make a noise and did not say how it could be
The Security Council should be without the president of the country and the speaker of the National Assembly. Where were they?
those, when the commission created on the issue of March 1 events
the results were “watered down” when in 2016 as a result of the April 4-day war
we lost more than a hundred soldiers and a considerable area. Who should answer this?
request. Why didn’t they say that the people chose us, and we have the right?
we have to demand an impartial investigation of the cases.

Let’s go back
to the topic. Even if Ashotyan and Sharmazanov were not officially invited, let them
they would go to that holiday and stand next to the Armenian people as privates
citizens. After all, they are the representatives of that people and they are “chosen”.
by the people,” as they like to say. May seeing them among the people,
Pashinyan would be ashamed and invite him to the podium, apologize for the mistake he made
for But can the RPA members, who are so numerous, take such a step?
cut off from the people, that even now, after twenty days of the work of the new government,
do not have a proper understanding of what is actually happening in the country.

Soviet
After the collapse of the Union, the Communist Party was not dissolved
was not convicted of crimes committed during the Soviet period. Maybe
if this were to happen, the RPA (in essence, the successor of the Communist Party in Armenia)
he would not commit such monstrous crimes against his own people and homeland.

 

Karapet Kalenchyan

 

 

https://acnis.am/hy/ambion/20-2018

 

 

 

 

Weekly update

 

Foreign Policy writes that “on May 29, the news broke
that another Russian journalist critical of President Vladimir Putin’s regime
had been killed, gunned down outside his apartment in Kiev. Pictures
were circulated of his bloodied corpse, and the Ukrainian prime minister blamed “the
Russian totalitarian machine.” On May 30, the journalist stood up, alive and well, at a press conference to admit it had been a
sting operation by the Ukrainian security services to catch a Russian-paid
killer.”

As it later
became known, the “assassination” of journalist Arkady Babchenko was staged to
expose Russian agents.

Writing about
the Babchenko’s background, authors note: “He served as a soldier in both of
Russia’s brutal wars in Chechnya, and wrote a powerful memoir, One Soldier’s War, as a result. He went on to
become a war correspondent, covering Russia’s imperial incursions into Georgia
and then Ukraine, never hesitating to criticize the Kremlin and its aggressive
foreign policy. He was no stranger to scandal or threat, either, and in 2017
finally left Russia when a Facebook post of his expressing indifference over the
deaths of a military choir when a plane crashed on its way to Syria sparked a
nationalist firestorm of protest.”

He wrote an
article about the events of that time in the British newspaper The Guardian.

According to Vasyl Hrytsak, head of the Security Service
of Ukraine, there’s a proof that Russian intelligence agents had paid a
Ukrainian $40,000 to kill Babchenko.

Mark Galeotti argues: “Whether or not this was the best
tactic to use to keep Babchenko alive and catch those who were allegedly
seeking to have him killed is impossible to know at this stage. One could argue
that anything that achieves these goals is a success. However, this is not just
a law enforcement operation.”

 

Prepared by Marina Muradyan

 

 

 

 

 

 

An interview

 

JUNE 1, 2018

 

 

 

 

– Armine, how?
do you assess the developments taking place in Armenia, in particular there is a point of view
that the revolution will remain incomplete if early elections are not held soon.
Do you agree?

– Extraordinary elections are important, of course, but before
some of those necessary conditions are needed for the holding of elections
mechanisms will be developed. First, some necessary time is required. Political scientists
will describe the pros and cons of holding sooner or later
the extraordinary elections. However, it is clear that before the elections certain
there is a demand for the adoption of bills, including the Law on Parties,
that parties bring politics into the National Assembly, not just party members
or to people who need shelter in the National Assembly. Parties can
use time efficiently, their best possible resources
recruiting. For example, CP acquires an important political card, votes
collecting credit, it’s not bad, especially since it’s something like an exam period for them. What is happening today is more than legal, according to the principle of the set path. The revolution will not remain incomplete, it may sound taftalogy, but whatever
if it continues, there will be a continuation of the revolution. And the process is still at the beginning
it goes accordingly. 

– What do you think?
Did that revolution happen in people’s minds? Is this another community?
is that previous mistakes during elections no
perform.

– Nothing happens in a day, or a month, or a year,
people don’t suddenly wake up more conscious or more “miserable”. see
mainly people’s lives did not progress for years, which is development
in rhythm it was tantamount to degradation. But during these years, political,
during the civil struggles, even indirectly, it has increased to a certain extent
the awareness of being a public citizen, perhaps thanks to the older generation, new
generation, youth. The public is not the same public every time
is a step forward, a degree more legalistic and boldness of thought is high, and
rises more. That development has a role to play in not making past mistakes
or decrease, but that is not the solution to the issue, at least today, but the system to be created,
the law that with the quality of life and consciousness and parallel to it political life
electoral bribery and fraud as a phenomenon with system performance
will be eliminated. By and large, people want to be in charge of their own lives.
of their own microcosm and not very keen on politics
to meddle in some impure matter, but it was to themselves as a resource
the only platform to be “used” from which to satisfy primary demand
they expected. The public needs an honest and effective governance system
to live so that everything is thought out and served for people and not the other way around. people
they quickly get used to the good, the honest.

People with a different motivation during the upcoming elections
will move, politically mature and aware, which is in line with the spirit of what happened, but
if for years to create a swamp again, deprived of voice, despised, socially insecure
to create a situation, and then once again finding himself in public political apathy,
the lowest level of demand will be prioritized and may be delayed for years
political passivity. As for people now, and for a long time to come
perhaps this spirit and sense of entitlement will persist, or inertia
through or as an acquired new quality, character. That’s why, what?
is done in local bodies or in universities or elsewhere is equated with rebellion
attempts to resolve the issues is very normal and does not contain a counter-revolutionary element or
they are against the government, the prime minister, whom they trusted. They felt
the path to that longed-for freedom and things yet to be liberated
you see, it is very natural. 

– What do you think?
if the special election be late
Are there any risks of it happening? public resource.

– What do you mean by public resource? if the word
if it is about public trust, people’s trust, then I don’t see such
problem. In general, the people, the public showed that they were in favor of a chance
to give even to an unaccepted, unloved government. Now more than understanding
and patiently follows the political processes. Nikol Pashinyan and velvet
revolution interest in the political element in society
introduced, not into the concept of politics, but of the political element itself. Let me explain my point. when it seemed that coming to power was just a blow to the people
will simply remove the rich and enriched people from positions and accordingly
will send him to dark rooms, it turned out not, it was not a single blow of a stick. And because
for society, for the people, former politicians from work
removing, punishing, was an extremely important topic, they began to follow how and what
it should be done with levers, the field of legality arose among the people, by law
the mindset of regulating like a TV series the public began to watch or that
how do they find and use levers? That is, long-term cleaning
has become a passive participant in the process, as if a member of a big team. The other
on the other hand, the new government has not yet made such gross defects and mistakes.
that people’s confidence will waver. On the contrary, every new day pro-state,
Are they witnessing Armenian-centric, pro-Armenian activities, or towards outsiders?
positioning or within, from educational to economic blocs
the passage. In other words, they clean the rust from the rusty mechanism so that the engine starts up
the mechanism, here the system works.

There is one important question that is always misunderstood
to this or that circle. it was a matter of appointments. Under the conditions of the regime
positions were personalized. For this, for example, Taron Margaryan, Aram Simonyan
and others, have so identified their lives with the balance of their relationships,
related to the position, that they entered the position in a mental, psychological assimilation
back and a very serious personal traumatic problem arose out of assimilation
coming It is a serious psychological mechanism, a problem. That’s why when the prime minister
means doing: the opposition, of the people, even political, civil
the real basis of the elite’s discontent entrenched in that subconscious
It is the fear of “effectiveness” that if it didn’t work well, how to get rid of it. This is it
it sits like a complex. There is no real problem to worry about. If how did it start?
the activities of the prime minister continue, then they lay the foundation of the system,
in which a person with this or that relevant characteristics will work. will not justify
“stop”, “deformation” will be noticed in the engine mechanism of the system and will be replaced. This
is the whole brilliance of all this, if only in the future the approach is maintained.

On top of what I said, let me give an example from 2 days ago
so many meet/․I already saw a superman collage made about the head of the National Security Service or headlines “Head of the National Security Service
Many former officials are afraid of Artur Vantzyan.” what do you think
suppose the prime minister appoints another person and instructs him about his principles
the new government and what results are expected, would it have been any other way? of course
no, it would be the same superman with a different name. I think the system
“unreal” frames will simply be left out during stretching and working. For example,
the American “checks and balances” system can
to allow someone as narcissistic and unbalanced as Trump as president
that keeps the balance in the government bodies, preventing power
disproportionately empowering any branch, instead they restrain and control each other. 

– Certain today
we see acts of defiance that are sometimes interpreted
as sabotage against a government that enjoys the trust of the people.In this sense, how much?
the danger of real counter-revolution.

– Of course
they are not sabotage. There will be sabotage attempts, they will be noticed quickly. Disobedience
gave the key to people, taught them to fight peacefully to defend their right
form, well, people do not set limits either: he committed a violation, he mismanaged, he was a briber
it must be removed. Mainly organized, instinctively or consciously “locally”
a period of local cleaning has begun, which is actually also a benefit to the government,
in order to draw attention to, for example, some local issue. Will be local
bodies with which people have been satisfied for years and will not raise questions, I think
the government has not set a mandatory condition for changing all former cadres. I don’t see a real counter-revolutionary resource, I see it narrowly, a toy
taken out of the hands of some level Republicans who are not yet aware of themselves
about the current position and what happened, sometimes from a sense of reality
cut off They are not even able to adequately re-evaluate their old reality.

This is a lot
It is an interesting revolution carried out by natural development and great will power.
story. The impossible was not to get the people out of the apathy of fatigue, but
the impossible was to organize the availability of the main ingredients, collect,
to have for a guarantee of victory, of which there was no shortage of one
succeed, but that is another topic.

 

The interview was conducted by Siranuysh Papyan

Source:

 

 

https://acnis.am/hy/interview/20-2018