It turns out that Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, the main merchandiser of the country’s weapons, Dmitry Rogozin, was severely punished for an improper expression by a high-ranking official addressed to Armenians. In the Kremlin, during one of the sessions, President Putin reprimanded him, saying, “Tighten your tie.”
This probably is equivalent to a strict reprimand during the communist times by making notes on the registration card. Henceforth, Rogozin will attend the meetings with tightened tie and proper vocabulary. This is one practice of “punishment” that is widely applied in the whole post-Soviet territory. For example, recently it turned out that our officials are driving 800 “extra” vehicles. It is very good that this fact was disclosed but who were the officials that caused harm to our country by authorizing this kind of inappropriate luxury. They must be called to the meeting and said to tighten the ties.
However, 800 vehicles are just a trifle compared to the large-scale projects that are carried out by different government agencies. For example, our state has taken a loan of 30 million dollars from the World Bank to “destroy” Azat River and the surrounding water resources. It is clear that both the WB Armenia officials and project implementers can abundantly take from this “honey pot”. There are people who for the sake of this money will destroy not only Azat River but also their mother. But when it turns out later that there was no need to take this loan, and we could have spent this 30 million dollars for other and more “constructive” purposes, those who have their fingers in this honey will also get their severe punishment. They would be said, “Wash your hands and tighten your ties.”
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But what to do if it comes not to the persons but the offices. The person against whom a criminal case has been opened by the article of an illegal entrepreneurship, and who probably has earned millions of dollars as a fact of enforcement of exercising the judicial acts, in fact, does not exist to tell him, “tighten your uniform of a general.” Instead, there is a “Mihran Poghosyan office” that you do not know what it is: a “fake,” a legal entity, a public or an NGO office? In any case, it is very difficult to call this “office” to order: what papers are you publishing, dear office? How are we going to check your papers and whether it was not worth submitting these papers to the Special Investigation Service?
On the other hand, there are signs that former CECA head will manage to “wash out” this case because as they say, one’s tail is under the other. Well, in that case, Mihran Poghosyan will have the chance to enjoy the money earned by his hard “compulsory” work with weakly tied tie.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
