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    APATHY REBELLION

    Lragir.am
    29/04/10

    Are the events taken place in Kyrgyzstan lessons for Armenia? A
    discussion in this connection was held on April 29 in the Armenian
    Center for National and International Studies with the participation
    of the ACNIS Director Richard Kirakosyan, ACNIS expert Manvel Sargsyan
    and OSCE Yerevan office expert Grigori Mikhalski. Mikhalski stated
    that judging by the violence that happened and the unpredictability
    of the situation, what happened in Kyrgyzstan can hardly be called a
    revolution. Mikhalski noted that he would be very cautious in making
    general conclusions.

    ACNIS senior expert Manvel Sargsyan noted that what happened in
    Kyrgyzstan is a collapse of state and public systems this is the
    reason why it worried all CIS countries including the Armenian
    government. Manvel Sargsyan believes dynamic changes happening in
    different countries of the world make other countries' public systems
    face the danger to collapse. At the same time he noted that no country
    can be collapsed if it did not reach the edge of collapse.

    Manvel Sargsyan says the power in Armenia should not rejoice at the
    fact that the public is disappointed with the opposition. According
    to the expert, if the public does not trust a political force,
    it generates a rebellious mood, and the rebellion does not serve
    political purposes, and it can be used by some political forces for
    a rebellion that is not in the interests of the state.

    Manvel Sargsyan noted that the Armenian authorities take no steps to
    overcome public grievances through systemic democratic reforms, but
    the power trusts external factors. At the same time, he noted that the
    system of power in Armenia, unlike the one in Kyrgyzstan, is based on
    the oligarchic conspiracy, so it is much stronger than the Kyrgyz one.

    According to Manvel Sargsyan, this represses social activity.

    The next factor repressing social activity, according to Manvel
    Sargsyan, is the fear from external danger, that the authorities may
    at any time inspire the public through their propaganda machine.

    Manvel Sargsyan does not know where this indifference will bring,
    but the expert believes, however, that apathy is not so far from
    the rebellion.

    He also noted that the events taking place in Kyrgyzstan and in other
    countries, hint about the enhancement of the role of the opposition
    in the world, and this role, in the sense of responsibility for the
    situation, becomes equal to the role of the ruling elite.
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