{"id":97407,"date":"2011-05-20T18:46:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T13:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=97407"},"modified":"2011-05-20T18:48:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T13:48:43","slug":"forget-about-revolution-in-armenia-says-former-hak-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/05\/20\/forget-about-revolution-in-armenia-says-former-hak-member.html","title":{"rendered":"Forget about Revolution in Armenia, Says Former HAK Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former member of the Armenian National Congress (HAK), creator of the group <a href=\"http:\/\/aool.wordpress.com\/\"><strong>Alliance of Online Liberals<\/strong><\/a> (also known as \u201c3A\u201d) Karapet Rubinyan, meeting with journalists in Yerevan today, said his group is not in talks with any political parties or entities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those meetings in which I&#8217;m participating I participate in as Karapet Rubinyan,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve met with [Heritage Party leader] Raffi Hovannisian and other members of the Heritage Party; once I drank with the Dashnaks [members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation]; nearly every day I&#8217;m in heated debates with my friends from the [Armenian National] Congress,&#8221; he said, noting that these meetings haven&#8217;t led to results in political terms.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by Epress.am what mechanisms he sees in changes being made, Rubinyan said, &#8220;Through the course set by the [Armenian National] Congress, to put it bluntly, we have to forget about revolution because the only chance [for revolution] was established at the start of the year, the outside factors, the extremely bad situation inside [the country], the failure of the current authorities \u2014 I had such an impression, it was enough that the [Armenian National] Congress, as the pivotal and most capable opposition force, gather around it the other opposition forces, bring them out onto the street, resolutely stay a few days and it [i.e. revolution] would happen. But, unfortunately, we lost that chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the activist, this is no longer possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A new political force, new political figures, if they even try to come and occupy that radical arena liberated by the [Armenian National] Congress, they won&#8217;t succeed in the foreseeable future. The only permanent vector here remains the aggravated social situation. I estimate that it&#8217;s not possible to create such a strong movement in the near future,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the course set by the [Armenian National] Congress, to put it bluntly, we have to forget about revolution because&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10340,14160,16421],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}