RA Police Chief Alik Sargsyan’s statement yesterday that “revolution is criminally punishable” is the result of a linguistic error, said Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) MP Vahan Hovhannisyan.<\/p>\n
“Probably, Alik Sargsyan meant coup [subversion, overturn] and not revolution. I don’t know, ask him,” said the Dashnak parliamentary faction leader speaking to journalists in Yerevan today.<\/p>\n
To a journalist’s observation that this is the second time the police chief used the word “revolution” incorrectly (at a press conference last year, Alik Sargsyan said any attempts at revolution would be “strangled in the cradle”), Hovhannisyan said:<\/p>\n
“Over the last 3,000 years, attempts at stifling revolutions in their cradles have not succeeded. And if they succeed in Armenia, then once again we’ll prove that we’re a unique nation.”<\/p>\n
Recall, Alik Sargsyan, yesterday speaking to journalists outside the government building, where Heritage Party MP Zaruhi Postanjyan was also present, said, “revolution is not a normal phenomenon, because after all revolutions, those countries are destroyed for at least 30\u201350 years.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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