I have already had the chance to write that the key question that I am asked in the street sounds approximately as follows, “What’s the end of this miserable nation?” It’s actually not a question but a complaint and at the same time an invitation to speak about the nation’s and the “asker’s” pain and sorrow. I do not like this expression for two reasons. First, describing yourself as “miserable”, “long-suffering”, “massacred” and “suffered”, you use “self-destruction” words. In other words, if you say “miserable” about yourself, then you will stay miserable all your life because your main task will be causing others to feel sorry for you and sitting among the “miserable” like you and complaining about the life.
But the losses of such thinking are not limited to this. With such mindset, you introduce yourself and your nation as a weak-willed sliver, which is brought back and forth in the ocean of this life and in the “end”, throwing in a coastal area. In this case, it is left to hope that the ocean would be the so-called “Armenophile” – hot, warm and peaceful, so that your “end” would also be in a hot African country. If you do not say anything, moreover, you do not want to live your current life and are waiting for the “end”, it is more likely that this “end” would be bad.
This, I think, is the private case of seeking the guilty beyond you. Such mentality has higher and state manifestations. Ask our government and the Central Bank, what was the reason for the “outbreak” of the dollar appreciation. And their answer is as follows, the speculators are to be blamed. When saying a “speculator”, I imagine the people who, for example, in the 70s, were bringing “Marlboro” brand cigarette from abroad in some ways and then selling it through Purtul’s kiosk. Today, however, there are free market relationships, and the speculation – buying cheap and selling expensive, is an integral and important part of it. If there are home-bred “financiers” who, growing heated, have bought expensive dollars and now have fallen into trouble, it is their business and their risk.
But the currency fluctuations are caused by entirely different reasons, and one of them is that we, the Armenian state, are unable to make enough dollars. These problems, as opposed to speculation, are chronic ones.
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Similarly, which is the reason for Russia’s economic challenges? According to Putin, the joint conspiracies of the United States and oil-producing countries. These conspiracies actually, very likely, exist. But Russia’s main problem is having such rich resources, this country failed to create anything in the economy for 25 years, other than oil, gas and arms sales. If the oil price falls again, what will be the end?
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
