Epress.am News from Armenia
Entrenched in Armenia are power and the oligarchic system, which virtually replaced government functions. All because people who are in authority and their entourage came out of the “dashing nineties.” Such a thing as “politics” is unfamiliar to these people, said Moscow-based analyst Smbat Karakhanyan in an interview with Regnum news agency.
Those wishing to start a political fight in Armenia unwittingly find themselves in a criminal “minefield.” For this reason, the mass rallies organized by Armenian National Congress leader Levon Ter-Petrossian didn’t allow him to destroy the criminal pyramid. This was because the government and the opposition work on different planes, said the analyst.
According to Karakhanyan, the logic of the events of February 2008 (during Armenia’s presidential elections) suggests that it was necessary to storm the presidential palace and end everything in 1–2 days, but “the opposition didn’t want to play on the criminal level.”
“The political situation in Armenia cannot continue this way for long, it will explode. This is understood in Washington and in the Kremlin. There are two options of this political explosion: either the people or external forces will do it. Combining these two forces is also possible. External forces are already aware that the authorities couldn’t care less about the opposition rallies,” he concluded.