When on September 3 the President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan “regrets” with the EU Association Agreement, there was no serious rally in Armenia. Now, when Viktor Yanukovich “regrets” with the same issue, tens of thousands of people in the cities of Ukraine came out to the streets. True, its opposite Customs supporters hold less crowded rallies putting forward the traditional “strong” argument that Europe is the origin of homosexuality. Repetition of this “murderous” argument in the entire post-Soviet area enables to conclude that the handwriting is the same here.
And so, in my opinion, only Shant Harutyunyan publicly rebelled against “regret” in Armenia, with correct wording, but wrong method. If a rally is organized by Paruyr Hayrikyan, I do not doubt that it will remain within the limits of legality, but who doubts that at the best several hundred people will participate in the rally. How is this situation explained? First of all, of course, with the fact that the majority of our population really prefers Russia’s “the times,” partly because of Soviet nostalgia, partly because of lack of information.
But there is also another important reason. Ukraine’s opposition, which organizes the protests, is guided by a certain values system, and just for this reason it rebels against the Union, where Putin’s, Lukashenko’s and Nazarbayev’s countries are gathered. Majority of our political parties (of course, including the RPA) are not guided by any values system, they do not have any ideology. They are guided by the so-called “pragmatic calculations”.
However, these calculations refer not to our state, but their political tactics and struggle for the position. Majority of opposition parties supports Russia’s European aspirations not because they share “neobyzantine” ideology, but for much more primitive aspirations: they exclusively consider the Kremlin as the source of their future power.
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In other words, they associate the success of their political struggle against the authorities not with the contrast of values, but with the hope that they will somehow persuade Putin that they better serve Russia, and Russia’s President will decides to appoint them or their representative a President of the Republic of Armenia, in the place of Serzh Sargsyan.
Theoretically, it is possible. Will it result in systemic changes, bourgeois-democratic revolution, and disintegration of gang rule? No, just the gangs, who are now settling their objectives under “RPA” label, will change their “labeling” in an overnight. We have already gone through this.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
