I keep surprising at how the extreme disposition of forces in the world and in Armenia are “passing the ball” to each other. Perhaps, they may not make arrangements, however, it is for their benefit to “tear up” the problem from different sides, thus getting some dividends from somewhere. They are interested in not seeing peace and reconciliation in individual countries and in the world, because their “business” is the fight, opposition, and the war.
Vice-President of the European Commission, Vivian Reding, stated that she would not attend the Olympic Games in Sochi, because the rights of sexual minorities are violated in Russia. A better gift, a “pass” to Russian homophobes, extreme nationalists, false, allegedly Orthodox devout is hard to provide. Because, thus, it is accepted that the problem exists, that it has almost obtained a cosmic significance. Hence, the vigorous activities of “defenders of traditional values” and “the West concerned” are justified. Maybe this is the objective of both sides.
Russia, of course, is not a democratic country, the human rights are violated there on every step, and, to this respect, the criticism of the West is to the point. However, the Olympic games, which, according to plan, should first and foremost symbolize the unity of the peoples of the world, are not the best place, where one should seek for a contrast. However, the European and American politicians are just doing it: talking about boycotting. Because the same campaign would begin from the opposite side, the next Olympic boycott calls, and everyone would suffer from it: peoples of democratic and non-democratic countries, first of all, the athletes.
I would not like to see everything going back to the 80’s, when the Soviet Union and the United States were playing the game of the same “passes”. I would not like to see events reminding of a little bit of the “cold” war, because such countries like our would become an unwitting stage of absurd race. I would also not like to see it because, as people say, there would not be winners in this senseless race. The U.S., with its allies, boycotted the Moscow Olympics in 1980, “passing” to the Soviet Union, which, four years later, boycotted the Los Angeles Olympics Games, with its allies. So, what?
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Today, fortunately, boycotting the Olympic Games is banned. Whoever initiates such thing, the team of given country can be deprived from participating in the next one or even two Olympiads. However, talking about boycotting, no one has been banned. It is still a good “pass”.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
