Immediately after the independence of Armenia, there was a project called “Europolis.” It was planned to build, in fact, a completely new city on the outskirts of the capital, which would meet the highest international standards of that time. But a few months after September 1991, the full-scale war with Azerbaijan began, and everyone quickly forgot about “Europolis.”
But “Europolis” was a private initiative, although sponsored by some state circles. They are trying to implement the “Academic City” utopia with taxpayers’ money. If this project starts to be implemented, it will become one of the “brightest” examples of giving state funds to the wind. It is certainly possible to build some buildings, but it has nothing to do with the quality of education. That quality can be increased in existing buildings as well. Or to leave the same, which is being done.
The saddest thing is that the members of the Armenian government know this very well, and yet they need to create an “imitation of intense activity.” Pashinyan can discuss some global projects at government meetings and other platforms to create a propaganda effect.
The “Crossroads of Peace” is from the same series. Would it be good if Armenia became such a crossroads? Of course, it is as good as having universities like MIT or Harvard in our country. In the case of “Crossroads,” the government again pretends that it is unaware of the prevailing reality, while the main parameters of the current situation in the region are known.
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Turkey has spent billions on the war against us, not for us to become a crossroads of peace (that is, a political and economic factor). Turkey’s goal is precisely the opposite: after the defeat of Armenia, to snatch the most significant possible “military spoils.” Our rulers know very well what Turkey wants from us, along with Azerbaijan and Russia. But they pretend they don’t know and develop unrealizable “initiatives.” In Latin, flatus vocis – air fluctuation.
Peskov, the spokesperson of the President of the Russian Federation, also says that he has never heard that Baku will ever call our country “Western Azerbaijan”—another one who puts himself in the place of the uninitiated.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
In the photo, Prime Minister Pashinyan presents the “Crossroads of Peace” project and its principles at the Tbilisi International Forum.
