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Effective fight against oligarchs in Armenia disturbed by disunity of
the rest of strata of society: Armenian ethnographer
arminfo
Thursday, May 5, 16:45
The effective fight against oligarchs in Armenia is disturbed by the
disunity of the rest of the society's strata, ethnographer, historian
Aghasi Tadevosyan said at today's roundtable at the Armenian Center
for National and International Studies.
According to the expert, unfortunately, the most accomplished stratum
in the country is oligarchs, and the matter does not only concern the
financial aspect.
"They have managed to clearly formulate and promote their ideology
regardless of how much this ideology contributes to development of the
country", he said.
The fusion of business and power gradually leads to removal of small
and medium enterprises as a factor in the economic and public life of
the country.
"The next stratum is the youth, who certainly have new views,
approaches and ideas, but the trouble is that they are too vague. The
situation is even worsened by the fact that they are disturbed by
various youth movements, like "Baze", which operate under the
patronage of the authorities and adhere to nationalistic approaches.
But today nationalism rather harms us than contributes to
development", said the expert.
Tadevosyan thinks that having put aside the Soviet system of values
and declared the course of democratic development, Armenia, in fact,
switched to nationalism: Vladimir Lenin was replaced by Garegin Nzhde,
and this does not meet the logic of building of a strong modern
statehood.
He added that Armenia needs a complex of concepts. "It is the
differentiated society, not the monolithic one, that ensures stable
development of country in all dimensions", he said.
Another survival of the Soviet past is the post-colonial mentality of
the statesmen and most part of the Armenian society. According to
Tadevosyan, the painful feeling of vulnerability without foreign
forces, for example, without the Russian military base, is direct
evidence of that.
From: A. Papazian
the rest of strata of society: Armenian ethnographer
arminfo
Thursday, May 5, 16:45
The effective fight against oligarchs in Armenia is disturbed by the
disunity of the rest of the society's strata, ethnographer, historian
Aghasi Tadevosyan said at today's roundtable at the Armenian Center
for National and International Studies.
According to the expert, unfortunately, the most accomplished stratum
in the country is oligarchs, and the matter does not only concern the
financial aspect.
"They have managed to clearly formulate and promote their ideology
regardless of how much this ideology contributes to development of the
country", he said.
The fusion of business and power gradually leads to removal of small
and medium enterprises as a factor in the economic and public life of
the country.
"The next stratum is the youth, who certainly have new views,
approaches and ideas, but the trouble is that they are too vague. The
situation is even worsened by the fact that they are disturbed by
various youth movements, like "Baze", which operate under the
patronage of the authorities and adhere to nationalistic approaches.
But today nationalism rather harms us than contributes to
development", said the expert.
Tadevosyan thinks that having put aside the Soviet system of values
and declared the course of democratic development, Armenia, in fact,
switched to nationalism: Vladimir Lenin was replaced by Garegin Nzhde,
and this does not meet the logic of building of a strong modern
statehood.
He added that Armenia needs a complex of concepts. "It is the
differentiated society, not the monolithic one, that ensures stable
development of country in all dimensions", he said.
Another survival of the Soviet past is the post-colonial mentality of
the statesmen and most part of the Armenian society. According to
Tadevosyan, the painful feeling of vulnerability without foreign
forces, for example, without the Russian military base, is direct
evidence of that.
From: A. Papazian