“What is happening in Ukraine now is the result of a complex and lasting process. To say that it has just begun, it is not right. Internal political processes accompany Ukraine throughout the post-Soviet period. Now, there is a very tense situation related to political and economic orientation”, – said RPA faction MP, NA former Speaker Samvel Nikoyan, in the conversation with Aravot.am, referring to recent tragic events in Ukraine Maidan. Our interlocutor notes that there are many factors in Ukraine that affect the further development of events. How the events will develop, with what political and economic orientation Ukraine will come out of this situation, our interlocutor finds it difficult to predict. However, there is one thing that he is certain. “To surely say that this is the end, it is not so. I think that, unfortunately, still quite events are expected to Ukraine. I can only wish that human victims be a lesson for everyone, and a signal for alertness and sobriety, and everything has a happy end.” To the observation of what our interlocutor meant by saying “happy end”, whether European or Russian orientation of Ukraine, he said, “I mean that the Ukrainian authorities and the public must undertake actions, to adopt a position, which is clear and comprehensible to the majority.” Does Samvel Nikoyan consider the option possible that Ukraine splitting option may become a reality? “There are quite complicated problems in Ukraine, also historically shaped. And, there are generalized and separating factors: Ukrainian people must clearly understand the challenges that the state, the statehood and the unity encounter. This is not the end, there might be a lot more difficult days for Ukraine, if both the government and the society do not become sober.”
Nelly Grigoryan
