(Saturday, August 8)
Interviewed by “Hraparak,” lawyer and pundit Hrayr Tovmasian divides Armenian society into three categories: “the rascals who plunder and rig, the wretched who are cheated and plundered; and the ideology carriers that are the driving force of the society.” “The stagnation of our society results from a lack of ideology carriers,” says Tovmasian. The paper agrees, saying that this shortage “costs the society and the state dearly.”
“The opposition has been repeating for almost two years, ‘Our movement is unstoppable and we’ll win,’” “Aravot” editorializes in a scathing attack on former President Levon Ter-Petrosian and his associates. “So why don’t you win? We don’t mind. Win and once again revel in ruling people, looking down on ordinary immortals and belonging to the nomenklatura caste. Create new oligarchs and, which is more probable, adapt yourself to the existing ones. But you have to win first because the future tense of your prayers reminds us of the Biblical predictions of the Second Coming.”
“Zhamanak” claims that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict can not be resolved in the foreseeable future because of “the multitude of geopolitical interests” in the region. “That is, there has been no decision to solve the problem at any cost,” says the paper. “It’s just that each involved party is making every effort to achieve the maximum result.” It says the big foreign powers have differing ideas of how to end the Armenian-Azerbaijani dispute. “And those ideas are not based on humanist and pacifist motives, but are dictated by the interests of those centers, which fortunately coincides with maintaining peace in the region and not restarting war in Karabakh,” it says. “This is a quite valuable agreement among the big powers.”
“Hayots Ashkhar” muses on the dwindling role of the intelligentsia in Armenia’s public and political life. “Under Soviet rule, the intelligentsia became a powerful class predetermining the country’s fate,” writes the paper. It says membership of that class was contingent on moral authority, rather than money and government connections. The situation is totally different now. “Today we are urged to look at things through a solely material prism,” complains the paper. “We are forced to embrace concepts that do not reflect a person’s public role but characterize his wealth … Thus the intelligentsia is gradually losing his pedestal and turning into an amorphous and absolutely useless stratum.”
(Tigran Avetisian)
Interviewed by “Hraparak,” lawyer and pundit Hrayr Tovmasian divides Armenian society into three categories: “the rascals who plunder and rig, the wretched who are cheated and plundered; and the ideology carriers that are the driving force of the society.” “The stagnation of our society results from a lack of ideology carriers,” says Tovmasian. The paper agrees, saying that this shortage “costs the society and the state dearly.”
“The opposition has been repeating for almost two years, ‘Our movement is unstoppable and we’ll win,’” “Aravot” editorializes in a scathing attack on former President Levon Ter-Petrosian and his associates. “So why don’t you win? We don’t mind. Win and once again revel in ruling people, looking down on ordinary immortals and belonging to the nomenklatura caste. Create new oligarchs and, which is more probable, adapt yourself to the existing ones. But you have to win first because the future tense of your prayers reminds us of the Biblical predictions of the Second Coming.”
“Zhamanak” claims that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict can not be resolved in the foreseeable future because of “the multitude of geopolitical interests” in the region. “That is, there has been no decision to solve the problem at any cost,” says the paper. “It’s just that each involved party is making every effort to achieve the maximum result.” It says the big foreign powers have differing ideas of how to end the Armenian-Azerbaijani dispute. “And those ideas are not based on humanist and pacifist motives, but are dictated by the interests of those centers, which fortunately coincides with maintaining peace in the region and not restarting war in Karabakh,” it says. “This is a quite valuable agreement among the big powers.”
“Hayots Ashkhar” muses on the dwindling role of the intelligentsia in Armenia’s public and political life. “Under Soviet rule, the intelligentsia became a powerful class predetermining the country’s fate,” writes the paper. It says membership of that class was contingent on moral authority, rather than money and government connections. The situation is totally different now. “Today we are urged to look at things through a solely material prism,” complains the paper. “We are forced to embrace concepts that do not reflect a person’s public role but characterize his wealth … Thus the intelligentsia is gradually losing his pedestal and turning into an amorphous and absolutely useless stratum.”
(Tigran Avetisian)