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OPERATION "VAGABOND"
HAKOB BADALYAN
Lragir.am
08 Dec 2010
or New requirements of the time
New content has been recently noticed in the official propaganda. The
propaganda is now filled of Russian businessmen of Armenian origin,
who have achieved success in Russia and formed large-scale business
systems. The power, appears to be trying to follow the principle of
"tell me who your friend is and I will say who you are" trying to
prove to the society that its friends are not only the semi-literate
Armenian oligarchs but also Russian intellectual-businessmen.
In this case the natural question occurs: who the local oligarchs for
the power are. It is unjust: local oligarchs keep the power ensuring
the operation of mechanism of electoral breaches, providing material
and human resources for this goal, then, they guarantee the daily
activities of the reproduced power, if necessary they pay taxes
to the budget, implement various charity orders for social tension
and propaganda reasons, etc. and then the power presents as if its
friend-businessmen are coming from Russia.
It turns out that domestic oligarchs perform the "dirty work", and the
government then tries to clean off the soot with the help of Russian
businessmen of Armenian origin, leaving the local oligarchs at the
mercy of the society. True, the local oligarchs have chosen their
destiny themselves. They accepted the rules of the game that the
government forced. In order to use numerous unwritten privileges,
the oligarchy, in fact, refused its written rights. And thus they
strengthened the power so much that now in a couple of days, it can
turn any oligarch into a "vagabond" as the first president Levon
Ter-Petrosyan would say.
In moral and moral-psychological senses, it is already happening.
Against the background of businessmen-intellectuals coming from
Russia, local oligarchs already look like intellectual and cultural
"vagabonds". Well, here the process of material vagabondism begins.
First, the Russian business will dominate in the description field,
and then, the transition of moral-psychological dominance into the
material field will become a matter of technique. And let the local
oligarchs do not think that the government does this in order to
create a much more civilized Russian business culture it tries to
"veil" the triumph of the Armenian "culture", that is, the shared
"dirty work" for the reproduction of power.
Not at all. It is a well-designed and quite far-sighted policy. The
government already knows that the local oligarchy has lost relevance
as a tool to maintain the power. In the end, after 2008, the situation
and public perceptions have changed significantly, requirements for
domestic and foreign policy are changed too. Oligarchs no longer
correspond to these claims, and hopes for their modernization are
negligible. Power too knows the possibilities of the oligarchy and
its ability to modernize.
That is why the emphasis is now on the Russian businessmen of Armenian
origin, who already have a more modern image. True, those are not
quite compatible with the new requirements. But they are much more
adequate, both in terms of image and perception and behavior and know
how to keep the power under new world vision, at least in Armenia.
So, apparently, the new partnership between the government of Armenia
and Russian businessmen is probably not a propaganda ploy and nor
an attempt to conceal the mischief of local companies. Everything
is much more "serious", and the intention is to start a long-term
"living together". And the main issue here is not how the current
partner of the authorities - the local oligarchy will feel, but how
the government's life with its new "spouse" will change the country
life of its citizens, the quality of the public life.
In this sense, there is some reason for optimism, since it is obvious
that the bet is placed on the form rather than content. In terms
of content, everything is still based on the values and priorities
reigning within the ruling "elite". In other words, these developments
in terms of culture and meaningful life of the Armenian power can
be a maximum provincial layout of the Russian authorities. The real
change is possible only in case the power is based not on oligarchs
and yard bosses, but real democratic and liberal values, and priority
will be the real governmental modernization.
From: A. Papazian
HAKOB BADALYAN
Lragir.am
08 Dec 2010
or New requirements of the time
New content has been recently noticed in the official propaganda. The
propaganda is now filled of Russian businessmen of Armenian origin,
who have achieved success in Russia and formed large-scale business
systems. The power, appears to be trying to follow the principle of
"tell me who your friend is and I will say who you are" trying to
prove to the society that its friends are not only the semi-literate
Armenian oligarchs but also Russian intellectual-businessmen.
In this case the natural question occurs: who the local oligarchs for
the power are. It is unjust: local oligarchs keep the power ensuring
the operation of mechanism of electoral breaches, providing material
and human resources for this goal, then, they guarantee the daily
activities of the reproduced power, if necessary they pay taxes
to the budget, implement various charity orders for social tension
and propaganda reasons, etc. and then the power presents as if its
friend-businessmen are coming from Russia.
It turns out that domestic oligarchs perform the "dirty work", and the
government then tries to clean off the soot with the help of Russian
businessmen of Armenian origin, leaving the local oligarchs at the
mercy of the society. True, the local oligarchs have chosen their
destiny themselves. They accepted the rules of the game that the
government forced. In order to use numerous unwritten privileges,
the oligarchy, in fact, refused its written rights. And thus they
strengthened the power so much that now in a couple of days, it can
turn any oligarch into a "vagabond" as the first president Levon
Ter-Petrosyan would say.
In moral and moral-psychological senses, it is already happening.
Against the background of businessmen-intellectuals coming from
Russia, local oligarchs already look like intellectual and cultural
"vagabonds". Well, here the process of material vagabondism begins.
First, the Russian business will dominate in the description field,
and then, the transition of moral-psychological dominance into the
material field will become a matter of technique. And let the local
oligarchs do not think that the government does this in order to
create a much more civilized Russian business culture it tries to
"veil" the triumph of the Armenian "culture", that is, the shared
"dirty work" for the reproduction of power.
Not at all. It is a well-designed and quite far-sighted policy. The
government already knows that the local oligarchy has lost relevance
as a tool to maintain the power. In the end, after 2008, the situation
and public perceptions have changed significantly, requirements for
domestic and foreign policy are changed too. Oligarchs no longer
correspond to these claims, and hopes for their modernization are
negligible. Power too knows the possibilities of the oligarchy and
its ability to modernize.
That is why the emphasis is now on the Russian businessmen of Armenian
origin, who already have a more modern image. True, those are not
quite compatible with the new requirements. But they are much more
adequate, both in terms of image and perception and behavior and know
how to keep the power under new world vision, at least in Armenia.
So, apparently, the new partnership between the government of Armenia
and Russian businessmen is probably not a propaganda ploy and nor
an attempt to conceal the mischief of local companies. Everything
is much more "serious", and the intention is to start a long-term
"living together". And the main issue here is not how the current
partner of the authorities - the local oligarchy will feel, but how
the government's life with its new "spouse" will change the country
life of its citizens, the quality of the public life.
In this sense, there is some reason for optimism, since it is obvious
that the bet is placed on the form rather than content. In terms
of content, everything is still based on the values and priorities
reigning within the ruling "elite". In other words, these developments
in terms of culture and meaningful life of the Armenian power can
be a maximum provincial layout of the Russian authorities. The real
change is possible only in case the power is based not on oligarchs
and yard bosses, but real democratic and liberal values, and priority
will be the real governmental modernization.
From: A. Papazian