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ARMENIAN PRESS REVIEW
Tigran Avetisian
http://www.armenialiberty.org/content/article/2119808.html
05.08.2010
Galust Sahakian, a senior member of the ruling Republican Party of
Armenia (HHK), tells "Aravot" that the opposition Armenian National
Congress (HAK) has little chance of winning any parliament seats in
the next elections because it is not "understandable to the public."
"We need an opposition that can debate and engage in dialogue, expose
shortcomings existing within the society, impose and discuss things
with the authorities," says Sahakian, adding that "the notion of
opposition seems to be forgotten within the society." Of all the
opposition parties, only the Armenian Revolutionary Federation
(Dashnaktsutyun) looks like "real opposition," concludes Sahakian.
"Haykakan Zhamanak" rounds on "professional patriots" that denounce
those who blame Armenia's military leadership for the latest army
shootings. "According to the logic of those who make such claims,
the only way of not committing high treason is to shut up and come
to terms with facts such as abusive practices in the army, killings
portrayed as suicides, the delivery of decomposing corpses of Armenian
soldiers to their parents," editorializes the paper. It says few of
the "professional patriots" have sons or other loved ones who fell
victim to army abuse.
"Hraparak" says the bitter rift between the chief of the Armenian
police, Alik Sargsian, and the recently sacked governor of his native
Ararat region, Vardges Hovakimian, "unmasked the reality within
the corridors of power." "It turns out that people, who work in the
same team, are members of the same government and are supposed to be
like-minded or at least have civilized or positive relations, hate
each other," writes the paper. "They hate so much that the former
government is ready to emigrate from the country because of the
police chief. That is, as soon as one of them loses his government
post the whole intra-government dirt comes up to the surface. After
this incident, it is not hard to guess what other officials think of
each other and how much hatred and malice they have accumulated."
Masis Mayilian, a prominent Nagorno-Karabakh politician, tells
"Zhamanak" that the possible sale of Russian S-300 missiles to
Azerbaijan would have a "negative impact on the balance of forces in
the region." "These [anti-aircraft] systems are classified into the
category of defensive weapons and can limit our ability to strike
back at the enemy," says Mayilian. "That is, after receiving S-300s
Azerbaijan would be less vulnerable and that self-confidence could
prompt Azerbaijan to take more aggressive actions."
From: A. Papazian
Tigran Avetisian
http://www.armenialiberty.org/content/article/2119808.html
05.08.2010
Galust Sahakian, a senior member of the ruling Republican Party of
Armenia (HHK), tells "Aravot" that the opposition Armenian National
Congress (HAK) has little chance of winning any parliament seats in
the next elections because it is not "understandable to the public."
"We need an opposition that can debate and engage in dialogue, expose
shortcomings existing within the society, impose and discuss things
with the authorities," says Sahakian, adding that "the notion of
opposition seems to be forgotten within the society." Of all the
opposition parties, only the Armenian Revolutionary Federation
(Dashnaktsutyun) looks like "real opposition," concludes Sahakian.
"Haykakan Zhamanak" rounds on "professional patriots" that denounce
those who blame Armenia's military leadership for the latest army
shootings. "According to the logic of those who make such claims,
the only way of not committing high treason is to shut up and come
to terms with facts such as abusive practices in the army, killings
portrayed as suicides, the delivery of decomposing corpses of Armenian
soldiers to their parents," editorializes the paper. It says few of
the "professional patriots" have sons or other loved ones who fell
victim to army abuse.
"Hraparak" says the bitter rift between the chief of the Armenian
police, Alik Sargsian, and the recently sacked governor of his native
Ararat region, Vardges Hovakimian, "unmasked the reality within
the corridors of power." "It turns out that people, who work in the
same team, are members of the same government and are supposed to be
like-minded or at least have civilized or positive relations, hate
each other," writes the paper. "They hate so much that the former
government is ready to emigrate from the country because of the
police chief. That is, as soon as one of them loses his government
post the whole intra-government dirt comes up to the surface. After
this incident, it is not hard to guess what other officials think of
each other and how much hatred and malice they have accumulated."
Masis Mayilian, a prominent Nagorno-Karabakh politician, tells
"Zhamanak" that the possible sale of Russian S-300 missiles to
Azerbaijan would have a "negative impact on the balance of forces in
the region." "These [anti-aircraft] systems are classified into the
category of defensive weapons and can limit our ability to strike
back at the enemy," says Mayilian. "That is, after receiving S-300s
Azerbaijan would be less vulnerable and that self-confidence could
prompt Azerbaijan to take more aggressive actions."
From: A. Papazian