There were likely many violations committed at Yerevan State University. Perhaps this includes not spending finances on what was intended, waste, and more. However, neither the professors nor the students can live exclusively without that problem while also constantly insulting the rector-head of the YSU Supervision Service.
It is not unlikely that there is a portion of students interested in all of that. Perhaps the “older” student councils and the “newer” Restart representatives are busy thinking about problems in society. But the rest are more interested in programs of study, the effectiveness of the professors’ teaching, making higher education a more focused goal, as well as the development of the university’s sciences, which it seems they wanted to “throw rocks at,” but then regretted it temporarily. I am not a fan of the rector and his “Komsomol-like” councils. If it’s necessary, change the rector and get rid of those Soviet structures. But you cannot live in the past for months.
The transitional phase needs to be complete, and the revolutionaries need to be the ones interested in completing the phase. Otherwise, constantly comparing themselves to the former regime (sometimes they don’t even realize it) seems fake, and sometimes it even brings forward agendas that aren’t beneficial for them.
During the recent parliamentary election campaigns, one of the main claims made by the Dashnaks was… that Levon Ter-Petrossian is giving up Artsakh. What do the events of 1997-1998 have to do with the campaign agendas of 2018, especially considering the fact that Levon Ter-Petrossian’s party was not participating in the election? But when there is nothing in particular to say about the present and the future, people say things about the past that present them in a good way and cast shadows on others. It doesn’t matter how contemporary the others are.
The Artsakh issue is that universal key that opens any doors from the past and allows for insults against any person, even those who have left politics. It is normal that Samvel Babayan has his reasons for being dissatisfied with Serzh Sargsyan; the Igla case was completely falsified (I wrote about this even during the previous regime). And the former Minister of Defense of Artsakh announced that the third President of Armenia not only was giving Artsakh away, he was also discussing plans to give it away with the second state’s leaders. In this case, it is not necessary to know the truth of this. What’s important is that it is once again taking us to the chasms of the past, and that it doesn’t allow us to focus on a more essential problem: what is being done today for the security of Artsakh? And what needs to be done tomorrow?
Aram Abrahamyan
