Aravot.am asked Ruben Mehrabyan, expert of “Center for Political and International Studies”, how long Maidan can resist, given the unfortunate events of recent days, how long the Russian authorities may persist, and in general, whether long-range goals of Moscow are bringing recent developments of Maidan with respect to influence over the former Soviet Union countries closer, or the contrary. “After a series of violent acts of Yanukovich regime, people who are ready to sacrifice everything for the sake of eventual victory are assembled in Ukrainian Maidan. They will no longer tolerate the criminal regime, will not tolerate Moscow humiliating and bloody yoke, it is intolerable for them to turn into a “building material” for a new Russian empire, the idea of which Putin is trying to impose with a maniacal persistence. Ukrainians historical memory, the integral part of which is the violent rusification, the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs’ (NKVD) terror, and, of course, Holodomor: extermination of the Ukrainian people in 1930’s, just rules it out,” noted the expert. As convinced by Ruben Mehrabyan, “Today, the Ukrainian coming out to Maidan fights not only for free Ukraine, but also by doing so, it sends the Russian neo-imperialism, that has turned into a prison of thrice peoples and a gendarme of Europe into the garbage of history, forcing Moscow to respect the legitimate aspirations and interests of neighbors, opening the opportunity of post-Soviet nations to throw off the yoke of criminal oligarchy. This fight cannot be just fail ending with glorious victory. And, the victory of the Ukrainian people is also a victory of Free Armenia.”
Emma GABRIELYAN
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