The fact that Vladimir Putin is well aware of our Statistical Services as to how many people live in Armenia, is natural. More precisely, the Statistic Services is also aware of it, but it has reasons to hide the truth, but not Putin. I do not see anything particularly humiliating here, maybe RF President needs to be slightly scolded for not being tactful. Humiliation was in another place.
Where did this whole conversation come from? The Russian businessman Ara Abrahamyan assures the President of his country that all Armenians in the RF are on your side. I do not know whether he had reasons to say such a thing or not, it’s up to them. Putin half-jokingly is asking, – “And what about Armenia’s?” The Armenian businessman was supposed to give a serious answer to it,- “The Armenians of Armenia have no problem of supporting or not supporting you, we have nothing to do with those people, because they are citizens of another country.” I think the RF President would not hang the businessman for such an answer, he would not even take his business.
Everything is clear. Karabakh, military base, “Smerch”, “Iskander”, gas, and so on. It is also clear that in this situation the Russian officials, kurghinyan kind of political scientists, maybe also a part of ordinary citizens would call us, which very precisely in their language is called «хамвство» (Translator’s note, boorishness). (Although, in this case, overshooting gives the effect of a boomerang, but it is still up to them). But, even in this case it is possible to maintain the dignity, and it is also possible to grovel when it is not required from you. It was even in the Soviet times, and to this respect one of the best examples for me was Karen Demirchyan, which, naturally, was not opposing the Center, but on the other hand, he did not cringe before them. The same can be said about numerous intellectuals living in the Soviet Armenia in 60-70’s.
I do not know whether Putin wants to create something good or bad than the Soviet Union, at least the members of this new union would be formally called independent. But in all circumstances, the independence is based on the inner consciousness of given nation. For example, the residents of the Baltic Republics, in their heart, mostly did not feel like a citizen of this great country during 40 years of the Soviet Union. Can the same be said about the Armenians? To what extent is this inner feeling conditioned by the EU, CU, Eurasia or Russia?
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