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    WHAT IT MEANS
    HAKOB BADALYAN

    Lragir.am
    13 Oct 2010

    On October 12, Serge Sargsyan went to the stadium to watch football
    accompanied by the Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan. On Serge Sargsyan's
    right, as usual during football matches, was sitting the Chairman of
    the Armenian Football federation Ruben Hayrapetyan and this time,
    on the left side, was Seyran Ohanyan. A couple of days ago, during
    the match with Slovakia, Seyran Ohanyan was not sitting on Serge
    Sargsyan's left side.

    Probably, Ohanyan did not believe that the Armenian national football
    team would ever win the Slovaks, who, like Tsarukyan, goes somewhere,
    only in case of being sure that ours will win.

    It is not ruled out that Ohanyan's presence had a political
    significance, context or subtext. Going to watch football with the
    Defense Minister, Serge Sargsyan perhaps wanted to show, against the
    background of latest discussion in respect of the army, that Seyran
    Ohanyan enjoys his support so much that they go to watch football
    together.

    Sure, this is not a dogma because there was time when Serge Sargsyan
    used to watch football with Abdullah Gul too, but now Turkey became
    one of the main targets of the Armenian propaganda. Watching football
    is not a guarantee.

    Anyway, for now, Serge Sargsyan seems to be underlining his confidence
    towards Seyran Ohanyan. It is a question whether he does it for
    the society, which discussed army issues in internet and press, or
    for people who are within the power or close to it and who want to
    use the moment of public activeness in relation to army issues for
    personal goals.

    Interestingly, Serge Sargsyan, in all this period, has never tried
    to publicly dwell on this issue or to voice his support towards
    Seyran Ohanyan in a statement. Once, he undertook staff changes,
    then chose Seyran Ohanyan as a friend to watch football trying to
    show some position in connection with the problem.

    Can this mean that Serge Sargsyan is not determined with regards to
    the latest events in the army, which the reason is he avoids direct
    speech because the language of hints is always more significant and
    can give way to suppositions without revealing the reality? While the
    important is what the Commander-in-Chief really thinks about all this.




    From: A. Papazian
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