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GLADIATOR OLIGARCHS
James Hakobyan
Lragir.am News
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments23332.html
11:47:30 - 14/09/2011
The oligarchs Samvel Alexanyan, Ruben Hayrapetyan and Levon Sargsyan
are at the forefront of the war against the Haykakan Zhamanak Daily.
They sued the newspaper for defamation, damage to their dignity and
business reputation, and the court naturally accepted their claim and
ruled that the newspaper must pay a 6 million drams in compensation.
The newspaper appealed against the decision of the Court of General
Jurisdiction but the Court of Appeals and the Court of Cassation
were not helpful. In Armenia, it is difficult and almost impossible
to succeed in court if the cases involve oligarchs. Armenia hasn't
had similar cases since independence. Perhaps, this is the first case
when the oligarchy unites to make the paper bankrupt.
No doubt, after a successful outcome of this case, the oligarchy will
sue other media. This is the natural and normal behavior of oligarchs
because having dominance in almost every possible sphere of life,
they should reach to the media one day, rendering their dominance in
Armenia unreachable.
The media are one of those few spheres which opposes the oligarchy,
where details of life and work of oligarchs are disclosed and
publicly evaluated. Consequently, it is logical that the media is
target number one for the oligarchy because the other targets have
already been hit by the oligarchy.
But it only seems that after hitting this target the oligarchy will
gain total invincibility in Armenia. In reality, striking the media
will be the end of the oligarchy. In other words, the oligarchy
will accelerate its end. The point is that currently, the supreme
government is trying to solve the problem of freedom of the media
through oligarchs, once this question is solved, the government will
set to the issue of the oligarchy.
They think this is exaggerated and will never happen. But a more or
less thoughtful oligarch may notice the ongoing processes and trends
in Armenia, especially in the government, which are influenced and
even determined by international trends and moods. Consequently,
instead of attacking the media, reasonable oligarchs had better try
to understand the new trends which are leading to transparency of
economic and political government.
The global crisis evidenced that the acting economic and political
systems, despite their external openness and transparency had always
been, in reality, closed, and it caused"internal bleeding", leading to
a serious crisis. The countries which had been considered as symbols
of invulnerability appeared on the verge of bankruptcy. Consequently,
we can only imagine the level of vulnerability of countries with closed
systems, which already have serious issues related with legitimacy,
social security and rights.
Instead of meaningless fight on the media, the Armenian oligarchy had
better read papers and get acquainted with the current global moods
and processes to understand that they are not promising, even in case
it devours everything in Armenia, even the barbed wire on the border.
Meanwhile, in case of such global atmosphere and trends, being omnivore
is the least suitable thing for the oligarchy which is walking toward
a deadlock.
From: A. Papazian
James Hakobyan
Lragir.am News
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments23332.html
11:47:30 - 14/09/2011
The oligarchs Samvel Alexanyan, Ruben Hayrapetyan and Levon Sargsyan
are at the forefront of the war against the Haykakan Zhamanak Daily.
They sued the newspaper for defamation, damage to their dignity and
business reputation, and the court naturally accepted their claim and
ruled that the newspaper must pay a 6 million drams in compensation.
The newspaper appealed against the decision of the Court of General
Jurisdiction but the Court of Appeals and the Court of Cassation
were not helpful. In Armenia, it is difficult and almost impossible
to succeed in court if the cases involve oligarchs. Armenia hasn't
had similar cases since independence. Perhaps, this is the first case
when the oligarchy unites to make the paper bankrupt.
No doubt, after a successful outcome of this case, the oligarchy will
sue other media. This is the natural and normal behavior of oligarchs
because having dominance in almost every possible sphere of life,
they should reach to the media one day, rendering their dominance in
Armenia unreachable.
The media are one of those few spheres which opposes the oligarchy,
where details of life and work of oligarchs are disclosed and
publicly evaluated. Consequently, it is logical that the media is
target number one for the oligarchy because the other targets have
already been hit by the oligarchy.
But it only seems that after hitting this target the oligarchy will
gain total invincibility in Armenia. In reality, striking the media
will be the end of the oligarchy. In other words, the oligarchy
will accelerate its end. The point is that currently, the supreme
government is trying to solve the problem of freedom of the media
through oligarchs, once this question is solved, the government will
set to the issue of the oligarchy.
They think this is exaggerated and will never happen. But a more or
less thoughtful oligarch may notice the ongoing processes and trends
in Armenia, especially in the government, which are influenced and
even determined by international trends and moods. Consequently,
instead of attacking the media, reasonable oligarchs had better try
to understand the new trends which are leading to transparency of
economic and political government.
The global crisis evidenced that the acting economic and political
systems, despite their external openness and transparency had always
been, in reality, closed, and it caused"internal bleeding", leading to
a serious crisis. The countries which had been considered as symbols
of invulnerability appeared on the verge of bankruptcy. Consequently,
we can only imagine the level of vulnerability of countries with closed
systems, which already have serious issues related with legitimacy,
social security and rights.
Instead of meaningless fight on the media, the Armenian oligarchy had
better read papers and get acquainted with the current global moods
and processes to understand that they are not promising, even in case
it devours everything in Armenia, even the barbed wire on the border.
Meanwhile, in case of such global atmosphere and trends, being omnivore
is the least suitable thing for the oligarchy which is walking toward
a deadlock.
From: A. Papazian