After identifying the perfect fiasco in the so-called “17 political parties,” a micro-revolution, or, more precisely, a micro-rebellion, took place, and it was implemented by Robert Kocharyan.
First, on Armenian Army Day, during the failed attempt at infiltration on the government building, it became obvious that the leader of that movement until that point, Vazgen Manukyan, was unable to hold out any longer, and the movement needed a new leader desperately. They did not need to wait long for this issue to be resolved; Robert Kocharyan made himself leader, and he was a breath of fresh air to the small crowds.
This was followed by another series of trials in the “March 1st” case, which turned into a tasteless TV series by the judiciary, from which it became known that Kocharyan was going to Moscow. He received a corresponding permit, and the prosecutor’s office was not even aware of the grounds for such a permit. The formal reason for his visit to Moscow was to participate in a meeting of the Sistema Board of Directors, which takes place on a regular basis, and Kocharyan, as we know, is a member of the Board of Directors.
However, Kocharyan would not be Kocharyan if he did not mix his business’ “honey trap” with a spoonful of “political oil” (as the old Russian saying goes). With the famous Margarita Simonyan’s Sputnik, he preached several things to us, most particularly that he will be returning to politics, there is a demand for “professionals,” and “that team exists” (of course, he is referring to his own team), that due to “global politics,” Armenia needs to deepen its integration with Russia “even more so than it has,” and that if he were the country’s leader, “there wouldn’t have been a war.”
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In order for Moscow’s ‘number one ear’ to be understood very well, and for the ‘chemistry’ to be fully implemented, it was also said that ‘Navalny and Pashinyan are united by almost everything,’ that their ‘back ups’ are the same (perhaps he wanted to say their ‘backgrounds,’ but in any case, both are wrong), and that the Russian language is ‘in the DNA of the people of Artsakh.’ And, to ensure that the ‘intellectual package’ and political ‘professionalism’ of what he said would be fully expressed, a political know-how was pushed forward, according to whom “regionalization is taking place all across the world, some regional integration processes are taking place instead of global processes,” and several other things with the same message. And when asked, “Russia or the USA?” he directly responded, “Russia, of course.”
And the third creation took place on Saturday with a strange event in Yerevan. A new movement was founded called “Strong Armenia with Russia: For a New Union,” which Hrant Bagratyan, a few former Prosperous Armenia members, the former Prime Minister of Artsakh with ties in Crimea, a character who took part in the 2014 violence in Crimea who is being prosecuted in several countries, a former Republican Party deputy who organized “The Return of Crimea” events in Armenia who also fought against “Sorosization” (Kocharyan’s terminology), and a few others honored with their presence.
Earlier, at the end of January, a noteworthy event took place in Russia that had nothing to do with Armenia. The notorious Margarita Simonyan, her husband, and the director of a film about “March 1st” that was full of pro-Kocharyan propaganda- another Russian-Armenian reporter- participated in a committee in Donetsk, which is de facto controlled by Russia, where Mrs. Simonyan held an emotional speech about pan-Slavism, where she asked the Kremlin to annex the Donetsk and Lugansk cities of Ukraine in the same way they did Crimea. “Mother Russia, bring Donbas home,” Mrs. Simonyan cried.
The Kremlin poured cold water on that statement the next day. “The Kremlin does not have any plans to annex Donbas. Moscow has a responsible position regarding that issue,” the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, said, adding, “Margarita Simonyan is a media manager and reporter. She cannot be the official spokesperson of the Russian Federation in any way. This issue is not at all on our agenda.”
It has been no secret how much Simonyan ‘loves’ the current Armenian authorities since the first day of the Velvet Revolution. She was the first to ‘russify’ narratives about the ‘Soros project’ and ‘anti-Russian.’ She even scolded Armenia by saying, “You do not recognize Crimea as part of Russia,” and because of that, Russia should “spit on and trample over Armenia.”
Of course, Simonyan fits in perfectly with Lenin’s idea that ethnic minorities in Russia “pour salt on the wound” within the context of Belarusian chauvinism, and holding several government positions nevertheless causes her to force her leadership to ‘show her her place’ and make her understand that she can match enthusiasm with enthusasism, but she is not the ‘all-powerful,’ and that she will not succeed in dragging official Moscow into a new scandal, even though the imperialist lumpen will rejoice once again, because the problems that have accumulated are already ‘above the roof.’
And finally, after being scolded, Simonyan and her sponsors used their resources to take on the mission of announcing ‘Kocharyan’s great return’ and the debut of the ‘Armenian party’ led by Kocharyan after the Ukrainian fiasco…
And by the way, about the debut. The ‘great manipulator,’ according to the famous work, had to play chess for the second time in his life. During his class about chess, he said, “What is a debut, friends? And what is an ideology, my friends? A debut is a ‘quasa una fantasia.’ So, my friends, what is an ideology? An ideology, my friends, is a human thought that is embodied in the logical form of chess.” And we know from the story the awkward event that happened at the end of this episode…
The second attempt to invade history by the fathers of the great tragedy of independent Armenia could not avoid beginning with a farce, and it cannot avoid ending with a farce and a fiasco.
Ruben Mehrabyan
“Aravot” daily
