The Armenian football team lost one of the world’s weakest teams in its own field. I have not seen the game, but I’m sure that “our guys have shown a beautiful, scenic football, have called all the tasks of the coach to life, have accomplished all the arrangements of the training program in 102.2 percent.” This is, of course, only sport where everything is possible. It is not about the actual results, but about substantiating or justifying these results. We tend not to discuss the real reasons for poor results, usually, we focus on personalities. However, in this case, such an explanation is illogical; two years ago the Armenian team with the same coach, same Federation, and almost the same football team has had success. So there are other reasons that no one is in mood to discuss. In addition, it is more advantageous to shout “go away” in addressing someone, you will immediately appear in the list of ‘braves” and “patriots”.
The reports of the Ministers at the National Assembly proceeded approximately as such. The officials, holding the papers in their hands, were reading some numbers with some percents, but it’s probably not a secret that in every aspect of our life the situation, to put it mildly, is not satisfactory. And, naturally, any normal Deputy of NA and citizen is interested why the situation is like that. The answer approximately is as follows: “We are working on.” For example, one of the Deputies is asking “how come that several U.S. states have adopted the “Khojalu genocide”. The answer of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Shavarsh Kocharyan: “We have published a pamphlet and a DVD about Khojalu». Another NA Deputy is asking how it was that the industrial fishing of whitefish in the Lake Sevan is prohibited, but the lake whitefish are sold everywhere in the streets of Yerevan. The answer of the Minister of Environmental Protection Aram Harutyunyan: “We are cooperating with law enforcement officials”. And so on. They are working on, in other words, they do not spare efforts and energy. But why they fail, no one goes deep into. Including the opposition. They say, – “Go away and that’s it.”
Well, now imagine that you work in a place and you do not get a salary for two months. Do you really care what heroic efforts the director or the owner applies, and what objective obstacles he encounters?
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
