CEO of “Antares” Media Holding, Armen Martirosyan, about Baghramyan protest, the police and the bearer of the culture
Recently, the CEO of “Antares” Media Holding, Armen Martirosyan, made the following post on his Facebook page: “Charents and Mansuryan are not worthy of them. These ones are not the bearers of our culture. These ones today are occupants with poor knowledge of the Armenian language. Now, if an Azerbaijani mugam were heard through the loudspeaker, definitely they would not turn it off…” He meant those who obstruct the 11-day protest against the electricity price hike in Baghramyan Avenue. In the interview with “Aravot”, Armen Martirosyan said, “When a person is born, since that day, not only his parents but also the life begins educating him. And by saying education, it is a throng of restrictions and tricks, what you integrate will become a culture.”
He reminded that the commandments are the elements of the Christian culture and the rules arising thereof and added, “The culture, one the one hand, is something like an education, it teaches and shapes the person, on the other hand, it make restrictions, even setting up taboos so that the representative (meaning, the police) who bear this culture practices only good, kind and beauty towards that same public.” Referring to the practice of the police in Baghramyan Avenue – seizing the loudspeaker that was sounding the anthem composed by Tigran Mansuryan based on the poem “I love my sweet Armenia” written by Charents, Mr. Martirosyan noted, “The anthem empowered the people in my eyes, people’s back began to become straight. For the other side, it is clear that it was something like a thunderstorm that was simply causing fear.”
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Our interlocutor assures that in his own words, I was surprised in the daylight. “In both sides, there are Armenians, RA citizens, but carriers of two different cultures. One culture that has developed in the Soviet Azerbaijan, and the other – in the Christian democratic Armenia since the 1990s”. During the conversation, the CEO of “Antares” recalled his years of studying in Munich. “During my student years, together with my two Arab co-students we were often going out for a beer. After graduation, I got a bottle of brandy from Armenia and, naturally, I treated my co-students brandy in small portions. They drank, expressed their gratitude and said that they have never tasted an alcoholic beverage with such a pleasant aroma and so on. I noticed that my two Arab co-students did not drink it. I realized that they do not break the rule of the Koran, using an alcohol is not a befit, even though, I repeat, they are drinking very well with me separately. I would like to say that the Arabs are the bearers of their shame, the Islamic culture. This is on the one side. But we should be the bearers of the culture of conscious. Often, when educating our children we urge, “Aren’t you ashamed”, but we never say, “Do you have a conscience …? That is the difference between the protesters and non-protesters, between conscious and shame,” said Mr. Martirosyan.
Referring to the Mansuryan anthem by the words of Charents, our interlocutor said that the authors of the anthem sounded during the rally, bearing elements of purely Armenian and Christian culture, became an “indicator”. And right here, the two cultural species of our people became apparent. Armen Martirosyan does not lose his hope and is confident that eventually we, Armenians, will become the bearers of purely Christian democratic culture due to the time or fight and the post-post modernism in Armenia will win over the feudalism.
Samvel DANIELYAN
“Aravot” daily
