As the change of power took place and Nikol Pashinyan can be said to be “almost” Prime Minister, and since the fawning campaign towards the new government has already begun, I feel free to express my opinion, opposing revolutionary romanticism, through which breathes the vast majority of my fellow citizens. Invading a media and demanding live stream broadcast at the same time is bad, breaking through the police barricade by force is bad, blocking streets and highways is bad, signaling with no sense is bad, covering he speedometer and driving on 100 is bad. By the way, why are they still driving so, who they are fighting against now? And all that is bad (although maybe inevitable) because it will take at least a few weeks, if not months, after that, to return to normal life. If in a few months Nikol Pashinyan says what I am writing now, do not be surprised, he will be called responsible for the state order.
If people who are accused of being involved in seizing a regiment by weapons, and other crimes and murders, are considered to be political prisoners, and are set free without being investigated for their guilt, it will create serious problems for any government. It is dangerous for the state because no government will create paradise conditions for all citizens of Armenia, and if another group of citizens protesting against the defects, again tries to solve the problem through Kalashnikov weapon, playing “political prisoners” will be a precedent that justifies the armed political struggle. (The case of Shant Harutyunyan and his friends is quite different: the punishment that they carry is strictly disproportionate to what they have done, which I have repeatedly written about during Serzh Sargsyan’s office. These men really, in my opinion, should be immediately released).
Usually when I was writing such a thing, the comment was as follows: “so you want everything to remain the same and Serzh Sargsyan to rule forever?”. Now that “argument”, to put it mildly, is not appropriate, everything has already changed, the power of Serzh Sargsyan and the Republican Party is over. Moreover, the wrath of the people was quite appropriate, the system is rotten to the core and does not serve the interests of the citizens of Armenia. But dismantling the system is 10 times more difficult than organizing street protests. And creating a new system is 100 times harder than dismantling. And at the core of this difficult work should be not the revolutionary emotions but the legitimate sober work style.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
