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WHERE WERE THE OUTSTANDING ONES ON APRIL 24?
HAKOB BADALYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments25949.html
Published: 13:27:55 - 26/04/2012
The Public Channel televised the celebration of April 24, the day of
remembrance of the genocide, by the Armenian community of Moscow.
Whenever the music awards of Tashir and Armenia are held at the
conference palace of the Kremlin, the house is full.
Hardly 500 people attended the ceremony of commemoration in one of
the squares of Moscow. Meanwhile, the Armenian community of Moscow
is one of the largest in the world. In Moscow, Armenians count from
several hundred thousand to one million.
In this sense, Moscow keeps up with Los Angeles and Paris. Meanwhile
the number of people attending the ceremonies in these cities and
Moscow cannot be compared.
The case of the Armenian community of Moscow is interesting. This
community's political efficiency is almost zero. In fact, the political
efficiency of the Armenian communities in the West is also doubtful
because they are facing the serious challenge of modernization. By
the way, the Armenian state must deal with it because the Diaspora is
first of all one of the important tools of this state in the global
race of nations.
Nevertheless, the Western Armenian communities wish to deal with
politics, there are institutes and traditions.
The Armenian community of Russia is not such. In other words, there
is nobody or no group of people which expresses such willingness and
takes steps. The representatives of the Armenian community are mostly
engaged in economic activity, sometimes charity in Russia and Armenia.
And the main goal is not to address national goals, the goal is to
achieve their personal goals. Nevertheless, this is obviously an
ineffective option of solution of problems.
At the same time, Russia's totalitarian structure and atmosphere do
not allow the local Armenian businesses to grow into political factors
and pursue a political line different from that of the Kremlin. One
needs money and risk to deviate from the political trajectory of the
Kremlin or make changes to it. It is difficult to tell whether the
reason is the lack of money or courage but the capitalists of the
Moscow-based Armenian community will not invest in this goal.
The level of social activity of the community is also low though the
reason is reluctance and lack of self-consciousness.
The Armenian community of Moscow or Russia is interested in show and
business with zero politics. Therefore, the conference hall of the
Kremlin is full for shows while nobody has time to do politics.
Therefore, the Moscow-based Armenian community has popular glamour
magazines and no serious Armenian mass media.
And the indicator of the weight of the community is Zhironovsky, the
"king's fool" who was the only representative of the Russian political
establishment participating in the commemoration of April 24.
Moreover, not only Russian politicians (the Azerbaijani community would
be offended) but even the so-called Armenian outstanding politicians
and political scientists who are always in the first row during the
Armenian-Russian friendship shows.
From: A. Papazian
HAKOB BADALYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments25949.html
Published: 13:27:55 - 26/04/2012
The Public Channel televised the celebration of April 24, the day of
remembrance of the genocide, by the Armenian community of Moscow.
Whenever the music awards of Tashir and Armenia are held at the
conference palace of the Kremlin, the house is full.
Hardly 500 people attended the ceremony of commemoration in one of
the squares of Moscow. Meanwhile, the Armenian community of Moscow
is one of the largest in the world. In Moscow, Armenians count from
several hundred thousand to one million.
In this sense, Moscow keeps up with Los Angeles and Paris. Meanwhile
the number of people attending the ceremonies in these cities and
Moscow cannot be compared.
The case of the Armenian community of Moscow is interesting. This
community's political efficiency is almost zero. In fact, the political
efficiency of the Armenian communities in the West is also doubtful
because they are facing the serious challenge of modernization. By
the way, the Armenian state must deal with it because the Diaspora is
first of all one of the important tools of this state in the global
race of nations.
Nevertheless, the Western Armenian communities wish to deal with
politics, there are institutes and traditions.
The Armenian community of Russia is not such. In other words, there
is nobody or no group of people which expresses such willingness and
takes steps. The representatives of the Armenian community are mostly
engaged in economic activity, sometimes charity in Russia and Armenia.
And the main goal is not to address national goals, the goal is to
achieve their personal goals. Nevertheless, this is obviously an
ineffective option of solution of problems.
At the same time, Russia's totalitarian structure and atmosphere do
not allow the local Armenian businesses to grow into political factors
and pursue a political line different from that of the Kremlin. One
needs money and risk to deviate from the political trajectory of the
Kremlin or make changes to it. It is difficult to tell whether the
reason is the lack of money or courage but the capitalists of the
Moscow-based Armenian community will not invest in this goal.
The level of social activity of the community is also low though the
reason is reluctance and lack of self-consciousness.
The Armenian community of Moscow or Russia is interested in show and
business with zero politics. Therefore, the conference hall of the
Kremlin is full for shows while nobody has time to do politics.
Therefore, the Moscow-based Armenian community has popular glamour
magazines and no serious Armenian mass media.
And the indicator of the weight of the community is Zhironovsky, the
"king's fool" who was the only representative of the Russian political
establishment participating in the commemoration of April 24.
Moreover, not only Russian politicians (the Azerbaijani community would
be offended) but even the so-called Armenian outstanding politicians
and political scientists who are always in the first row during the
Armenian-Russian friendship shows.
From: A. Papazian