If a person is a state or political figure, it is clear that he is obliged to consider the opinion of his citizens and those who make decisions in other states. If a person is a private person, let’s say, like me, these concerns are unnecessary. For example, what they think about Armenia in the Kremlin, that question does not bother me at all. A country that attacked a neighboring country and caused tens of thousands of victims cannot be an authority on any issue.
But I am equally indifferent to what the West thinks about us. Many Western countries have achieved great success in the direction of separation of government branches, changeability of power, and creation of a genuine civil society. All that, of course, should be strived for. But it has nothing to do with the attitude towards us.
The West disregards the “cleansing” in the judicial system of Armenia, the arbitrariness of the police, political persecution, and state terror against journalists. Therefore, the West does not need our democracy at all. He is interested in supporting Pashinyan’s regime, and this has purely political reasons.
Therefore, people who wonder how Pashinyan manages to deceive the Europeans and pretend that we have a democracy, I think those people are wrong. Unlike the naive citizens of RA, it is challenging to “fraud” the relevant European structures; they have seen more skilled liars and deceivers. But the whole point is that, in this case, there is no need to imitate democracy.
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Even if Pashinyan sets up a concentration camp in Hrazdan Stadium and shoots 200 people daily, those structures will still say that the Armenian government is consistently implementing democratic reforms. In this case, political interests are more important than values.
And we should strive for democracy for ourselves, regardless of the opinion of the West.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
