"The people today are rebellious"
The collapse of the Soviet Union showed that what we consider constitutional order is an agreement between the world's powers to maintain their wealth, former member of Karabakh Committee Ashot Manucharyan told a press conference today.
Ashot Manucharyan says people must realize that we, Armenians, and all mankind are living in a distorted world and what happens around us should be viewed in the light of this fact.
Recently three pivotal events took place in Armenia and around the country, and Manucharyan stated those three during the press conference.
"The West, under the United States' leadership, overtly showed its support to the incumbent president. With that, the West once again left aside the values that it has proclaimed, including democracy and human rights and established its influence in this geopolitcally important region for the preservation of those values," Manucharyan said.
According to him, the second important event was when the ANC froze the dialogue and declared that it was going to raise a wave of social protest.
The third was the de facto replacement of the Russian President's office. According to Manucharyan, Putin's coming to power may have an impact on the developments of interior politics in Armenia. "We have to wait and see how Putin will be. It can be the Putin we saw 10 years ago with his cruelty, or it can be the new Putin with new manners," Manucharyan said.
He says the people in Armenia are rebellious, but the ANC has lost public trust and the chance for dialogue since nothing will work out without people's will.
According to Manucharyan, the West responded to Ter-Petrosyan's criticism with different steps. "It did that through the handing of medals, the German Ambassador's statements and more," Manucharyan mentioned. Russia also has its ways of sending messages to Armenia. According to Manucharyan, one of those ways was Sargis Karakhanyan's statements regarding Armenian oligarchs' wealth in Russian presses.
