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GIVE BACK OUR VICTORY!
Hakob Badalyan
Lragir.am
06 July 06
Over the past years the ruling elite of Armenia have displayed an
amazing ability to downplay and even discredit victories. Even the
victory in Karabakh has been downplayed to some degree, and it has
been discredited to a certain degree. And if this great victory of
the past several hundred years could not avoid the "skillful hands"
of the Armenian elite, it seems pointless to think about the security
of other victories.
When the men's chess team of Armenia returned from Turin to Yerevan,
the president of the federation Serge Sargsyan modestly kept to the
second row, and often to the third row, leaving the Armenian chess
players in the first row. It seemed that the defense minister was
trying to refute the forecast that he was going to use the Olympic
victory for his political goals as an instrument of propaganda.
At that moment it really looked like that in reality Serge Sargsyan
is unlikely to use the sport victory as a political instrument.
However, "the first became the last and the last became the first". On
July 4 the Armenian chess players were received in Stepanakert. Here
the defense minister was already in the first row, the chess players
were simply following him. The contribution of the president of the
federation to the victory is great, of course. The members of our
delegation even pointed out that thanks to him the Armenian chess
players in Turin ate outside the Olympic village not to waste energy
on standing in queues. Thanks to the president of the federation they
stayed in single rooms to prepare for the games and not disturb one
another. Who knows, queues for meals and double rooms might have been
intended to hamper the success of the Armenian team, and the minister
of defense neutralized it.
However, it is already unclear who gets the laurels, the winners of
the game or the payers for winning. Payment is last but not least,
even when it is an intellectual sport. But it is not in the first
row, especially that this is an intellectual sport, therefore it is
a little strange that the payer appears in the first row. Moreover,
if it were in Stepanakert, it would somehow be possible to say that
Serge Sargsyan was the first as a host, after all he knows the place
better and he could take the chess players around. But he started to
advance in the Bellagio, where he received the title of an Honorary
Citizen of the Center. In Stepanakert he was already both the first
and the leader. And there is a lot of time and cities until the
election. It is interesting how far ahead of the chess players Serge
Sargsyan will go, a step or two cities.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Hakob Badalyan
Lragir.am
06 July 06
Over the past years the ruling elite of Armenia have displayed an
amazing ability to downplay and even discredit victories. Even the
victory in Karabakh has been downplayed to some degree, and it has
been discredited to a certain degree. And if this great victory of
the past several hundred years could not avoid the "skillful hands"
of the Armenian elite, it seems pointless to think about the security
of other victories.
When the men's chess team of Armenia returned from Turin to Yerevan,
the president of the federation Serge Sargsyan modestly kept to the
second row, and often to the third row, leaving the Armenian chess
players in the first row. It seemed that the defense minister was
trying to refute the forecast that he was going to use the Olympic
victory for his political goals as an instrument of propaganda.
At that moment it really looked like that in reality Serge Sargsyan
is unlikely to use the sport victory as a political instrument.
However, "the first became the last and the last became the first". On
July 4 the Armenian chess players were received in Stepanakert. Here
the defense minister was already in the first row, the chess players
were simply following him. The contribution of the president of the
federation to the victory is great, of course. The members of our
delegation even pointed out that thanks to him the Armenian chess
players in Turin ate outside the Olympic village not to waste energy
on standing in queues. Thanks to the president of the federation they
stayed in single rooms to prepare for the games and not disturb one
another. Who knows, queues for meals and double rooms might have been
intended to hamper the success of the Armenian team, and the minister
of defense neutralized it.
However, it is already unclear who gets the laurels, the winners of
the game or the payers for winning. Payment is last but not least,
even when it is an intellectual sport. But it is not in the first
row, especially that this is an intellectual sport, therefore it is
a little strange that the payer appears in the first row. Moreover,
if it were in Stepanakert, it would somehow be possible to say that
Serge Sargsyan was the first as a host, after all he knows the place
better and he could take the chess players around. But he started to
advance in the Bellagio, where he received the title of an Honorary
Citizen of the Center. In Stepanakert he was already both the first
and the leader. And there is a lot of time and cities until the
election. It is interesting how far ahead of the chess players Serge
Sargsyan will go, a step or two cities.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress