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    POLITICAL MAUSOLEUM OF EX-PRESIDENTS

    Hakob Badalyan, Political Commentator
    Comments - Friday, 28 February 2014, 12:25

    Russia has become a shelter for ex-presidents, literally and
    politically. The ex-presidents of Armenia also seek "protection"
    in Russia. Robert Kocharyan has found employment in Russia, he is a
    member of the board of one of the big Russian companies.

    Levon Ter-Petrosyan could be an exception who resigned in 1996 after
    his reelection in 1996 through fraudulent elections but he returned
    to politics in 2007 and seemed to be putting everything in their
    right places - Ter-Petrosyan relied on the society, on the people.

    He launched an efficient movement which brought together not only
    Ter-Petrosyan's supporters and those whose faith in him was almost that
    of worship but also those who had a negative attitude to Ter-Petrosyan
    but joined the movement. One thing that distinguished and empowered
    the movement was the content of the movement itself, not the person
    who led it.

    However, a few months after the violent clampdown of March 1, the
    movement headed by Ter-Petrosyan gradually became prone for worship
    of individual and those who disagreed were humiliated. The movement
    ended up in another political party. But the problem is content, not
    only format. The movement established by declarations on democracy and
    power of people eventually drifted to a pro-Russian line, refraining
    from any critical word about the Russian policy.

    Instead of relying on people Ter-Petrosyan went on to seek protection
    in Moscow, renouncing those fighting for sovereignty as "marginal"
    and announcing that Armenia cannot have an anti-Russian movement.

    The anti-Russian sentiment is a bait of propaganda that is used
    everywhere when the Russian government goes against the interest of the
    given state and encounters counteraction of citizens. For example, the
    Russian propaganda is seeking for anti-Russian or pro-West sentiment
    in Ukraine to excuse and justify its own destructive actions, blackmail
    and threat.

    They have been looking for anti-Russian or pro-West sentiment in
    Armenia, trying to interpret expressed concerns about the sovereignty
    of Armenia and the imperialistic policy on Armenia as anti-Russian
    or pro-West sentiment.

    And the first president of Armenia has actually got down to this task.

    On the eve the ANC member Gagik Jhangiryan announced in parliament that
    there will be no repetition of Maidan and anti-Russian movements in
    Armenia. He announced this in answer to Hrant Bagratyan's question
    about the draft resolution on setting up an ad hoc committee on
    March 1.

    Jhangiryan and Ter-Petrosyan are one of those people in Armenia who
    know a lot. And they know better than anyone else how Armenia gained
    independence and when it started losing it, giving away the country
    to electoral fraud and having to look for an influential sponsor in
    the face of Russia.

    Afterwards Ter-Petrosyan stood an exceptional chance to form a
    government that enjoyed public support. This was his special role in
    the club of ex-presidents. He did half of the job - formed a movement
    that enjoyed public support.

    It seemed that knowledge would become Ter-Petrosyan's weapon to carry
    out a reform of the movement and set the idea of independence at its
    basis and to shape public mentality with sovereignty as its goal and
    then as its tool.

    Meanwhile, the opposite happened, and knowledge became his weakness,
    returning him to the traditional Armenian political mechanisms of an
    imperial province.

    - See more at:
    http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/31999#sthash.iRcI91CC.dpuf

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