Mr. Lavrov could have studied better at the university then. Otherwise, he would have known that he was making one of the most significant errors in logic,” said the interviewer of the “Who are generating anti-Russian sentiments in Armenia?” Do the NGOs?” Nina Karapetyants, Head of the “Helsinki Association” NGO. According to her: “If you are fed or financed by some source, it does not mean in a direct sense that you are generating someone’s ideas here. We also know, Mr. Lavrov, how many public and human rights organizations have been established in Armenia in recent years and what they generate. “Unfortunately, our authorities did not go the way of lustration and vetting, and the society is in a bitter delusion; they cannot understand what is happening.”
According to Nina Karapetyants, no one has ever generated anti-Russian sentiments in Armenia. The feelings that we have, this attitude towards the Russian authorities, are caused exclusively by the behavior of the current Russian authorities. “No one can generate the Russian sentiments they generate; our resources will not be enough. So, Mr. Lavrov managed to create a situation within their country in which the non-governmental organizations, which are the driving force for the development of the country, were able to clean, wipe, and do everything so that there are no more Russian non-governmental organizations in Russia, anyone about any problem does not have the right to speak. Now, since he has solved that problem within his country, he has decided to pass on his idea to those under his control or in the focus group, which also applies to Armenia,” she added.
The lawyer mentioned that many of the Russian non-governmental organizations moved to Armenia. At all times, the civil society of Armenia was a thousand times freer than all the non-governmental organizations of the post-Soviet countries. “Therefore, yes, Mr. Lavrov is saddened by the fact that there are free people here, thinking people, people who speak for the interests of the Republic of Armenia, who raise issues related to the sovereignty, defense, and other issues of the Republic of Armenia, including before our international partners.
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So, let Mr. Lavrov take his seat quietly; he has nothing to do here. It seems to him that if he managed to create several organizations here and has many agents, it does not mean that they should work according to their rules in Armenia. When the current authorities did not respond to Kopirkin, when he ordered people to shut up, people who were demonstrating in front of the Russian Embassy were violently assaulted, police officers were beaten, and many baseless criminal cases were opened since then, they have been trampled and assumed that they could create weather here. I have bad news, Mr. Lavrov, we are ready to fight until the end because Armenia is a sovereign country,” said Karapetyants.
Rosa HOVHANNISYAN
