The only question that today’s rally should answer is the following: whether the PAP leader Gagik Tsarukyan will announce that his and his party’s goal is to dismiss Serzh Sargsyan from the office of the president and win in extraordinary presidential elections. All other formulations that there are flaws, defects, poverty, immigration, corruption, that the government should not be reproduced and etc., even though they are right, but they do not represent a revolutionary call. The orators in the Freedom Square will explain it better to the people and with more lavish words of how bad their situation is, or how they are plundered, depressed, and so on. In fact, no need to write new texts, it’s enough to read Arshak Sadoyan’s or, let’s say, Seyran Avagyan’s 20 -year -old texts from the podiums. With regard to emotional background, in a word, there is no problem. But all these speeches are necessary, like it is said in sports and show business: for warming up (дляразогрева).
No long speeches are required from the PAP leader, either he will be limited to the previous topics, or will demand the immediate resignation of the president, but for the second case, he should explain how he is going to achieve this goal. Perhaps, in the past, the bourgeois -democratic and the socialist revolution “road map” was clear: first, they were attacking the telegraph office, then the post office, then the bridges and so on. In 1993, the supporters of Rutskoi and Khasbulatov, if you remember, attacked the “Ostankino” TV station. It is clear that all the listed cases refer to the communication, isn’t it? In Armenian of the 21st century, there is no need for such attacks. Tsarukyan has his own TV channel, by which he can convey what he wants, and give instructions to the revolutionary masses. The Internet and the social networks are free. Majority of the media (including “Aravot”) transmits the opposition speeches. With regard to communication, thus, there is no problem, too.
Today, modern Armenian bourgeois democrats are facing the tactical problems of the revolution. Will once in two weeks rallies produce result? If not, then maybe once a week? Maybe every day? I assume that even if the rallies be 24 hours a day and a 24-hour foul language is voiced against the government authorities, it specifically would not escalate the situation. Of course, if an attempt is made to take people to occupy Baghramyan – 26, it would be what the government calls a “mass disturbances”, with all its consequences. As far as I know Gagik Tsarukyan, he is not inclined to such adventures.
Of course, there is also the option of putting tents in the Freedom Square. But in that case, I will allow myself to give a little advice to my revolutionary friends: raise the RF flag on every tent so that the Russian observers would not get confused and would not think that this is the “orange revolution” and “Maidan”.
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ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
