U.S. President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, the capital of Hawaii islands. The islands, known we know, received the status of American island only in 1959. And two years later, the current president of the United States was born. During the campaign, Obama’s opponents were spreading rumors that he was not actually born in Honolulu, and therefore he cannot qualify for the position of the president of the country. The law in the U.S. is strict in this regard. And there is a logic in it: to lead the country you need to live with the concerns of this country.
The law in Armenia is not so strict. And today, when there are rumors of bringing a prime minister or even a president from abroad, I recall this very logic. Let me immediately say that the matter is not about the “Karabakh people”. He how thinks that Artsakh is not Armenia in terms of history and culture, he actually agrees with our neighbors, who are looking for “grounds” of how to attack that part of Armenia. I am talking about bringing, for example, Ara Abrahamyan and Armen Sargsyan from abroad and giving a high position here. I do not know Ara Abrahamyan, although we can conclude from his speaking that he is not Socrates. I know Armen Sargsyan and I have a deep sympathy and respect for him. But regardless of this or that individual’s personal characteristics, it is important that they have been cut off from the reality of Armenia for decades, and the problems which we encounter are not technical and “managerial”.
Any managerial experience acquired abroad or memorizing all intelligent books in the world about the subject will not help the foreigners to correct the situation. Because our problems are political, psychological and I would even say spiritual. To solve them, one should not only know and comprehend them, but also feel. This can be done only by a man who has lived in the country over these 24 years. The Ministry of Culture did not find a better option than to appoint the head of the National Opera and Ballet Theatre a bureaucrat who had worked in Russia’s diplomacy, who has not lived in Armenia for at least 12 years. I do not know this person, maybe he is a very brilliant young man. However, opera is not a football team, where you can invite a foreign coach, it is one of the spiritual centers of Armenia. To do something there, it needs not only the trust of the artists and musicians, but the audience as well. The problem is not that the director of the opera should sing, dance, or conduct. The problem is that he should experience what our audience actually needs. That is what the Russian official cannot do. Wasn’t such person found in Armenia?
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
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