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PRIME MINISTER'S "ARMY"
HAKOB BADALYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments27052.html
Published: 16:22:17 - 06/08/2012
We have learnt on August 6 that some student organizations at Yerevan
State University have set up the Armenian movement For Eurasian
Integration Initiative. The news was shared by the National Youth
Council of Armenia board member Tsolak Akopyan.
The Council is adjunct to the prime minister of Armenia Tigran
Sargsyan, the same prime minister who published an article in the
Russian press in June stating that Armenia chooses the European Union
as more opportunities of development will open up.
By the way, there is one more interesting circumstance. This article
was published when Serzh Sargsyan was in Moscow to attend the CIS
anniversary where he was not granted a private meeting with Putin.
It is also interesting that one of the prime minister's sources
releases this information when Serzh Sargsyan is going to meet with
Putin in Moscow.
Apparently, one of the key issues to be discussed at the meeting will
be the prime minister's issue, and this fact has made Tigran Sargsyan
take that step to indicate that the Eurasian Union is not a rival.
Perhaps, Tigran Sargsyan is trying to prevent nomination of a candidate
for PM by the Prosperous Armenia Party who would be inaugurated in
September during Putin's travel to Armenia.
Otherwise, Russia may put forth the issue of the PM sharply and the
West which has been supporting Tigran Sargsyan for such a long time
may decide not to make its relations with Russia tenser just for the
sake of the PM's post.
Although, it is also possible that Tigran Sargsyan's gesture has been
permitted by the West in order to take his time and not tease Russia.
Moreover, Russia that retreats in all the fields of the world, is
becoming very irritable about Armenia.
Here, the other side of the issue is also important. It is the role
of Yerevan State University in this situation. It is not news that
the students and especially YSU have become one of the tools of the
authorities. Now YSU and its students are also becoming a foreign
political weapon. But the word weapon is exaggerated here.
Students in a civilized, mature country with strategic planning are
one of the main resources supporting sovereignty. This resource is
especially valuable when internal resistance to a geopolitical center
or justification of the refusal to accept the decisions of that center
or to approve them is necessary.
In this sense, students are a more valuable resource than the political
opposition, especially the Armenian opposition and especially Russia,
the students are more independent and difficult to control to organize
resistance.
But in Armenia the picture is different. In the result of long use of
students as a tool, the ruling system has devaluated it as a resource
capable of resisting to the foreign policy. Instead, the ruling system
is opening a new field of service for the students the main "polygon"
of which is certainly Yerevan State University, whereas it should be
turned into a "laboratory" of modernity, competitiveness and new ideas.
From: Baghdasarian
HAKOB BADALYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments27052.html
Published: 16:22:17 - 06/08/2012
We have learnt on August 6 that some student organizations at Yerevan
State University have set up the Armenian movement For Eurasian
Integration Initiative. The news was shared by the National Youth
Council of Armenia board member Tsolak Akopyan.
The Council is adjunct to the prime minister of Armenia Tigran
Sargsyan, the same prime minister who published an article in the
Russian press in June stating that Armenia chooses the European Union
as more opportunities of development will open up.
By the way, there is one more interesting circumstance. This article
was published when Serzh Sargsyan was in Moscow to attend the CIS
anniversary where he was not granted a private meeting with Putin.
It is also interesting that one of the prime minister's sources
releases this information when Serzh Sargsyan is going to meet with
Putin in Moscow.
Apparently, one of the key issues to be discussed at the meeting will
be the prime minister's issue, and this fact has made Tigran Sargsyan
take that step to indicate that the Eurasian Union is not a rival.
Perhaps, Tigran Sargsyan is trying to prevent nomination of a candidate
for PM by the Prosperous Armenia Party who would be inaugurated in
September during Putin's travel to Armenia.
Otherwise, Russia may put forth the issue of the PM sharply and the
West which has been supporting Tigran Sargsyan for such a long time
may decide not to make its relations with Russia tenser just for the
sake of the PM's post.
Although, it is also possible that Tigran Sargsyan's gesture has been
permitted by the West in order to take his time and not tease Russia.
Moreover, Russia that retreats in all the fields of the world, is
becoming very irritable about Armenia.
Here, the other side of the issue is also important. It is the role
of Yerevan State University in this situation. It is not news that
the students and especially YSU have become one of the tools of the
authorities. Now YSU and its students are also becoming a foreign
political weapon. But the word weapon is exaggerated here.
Students in a civilized, mature country with strategic planning are
one of the main resources supporting sovereignty. This resource is
especially valuable when internal resistance to a geopolitical center
or justification of the refusal to accept the decisions of that center
or to approve them is necessary.
In this sense, students are a more valuable resource than the political
opposition, especially the Armenian opposition and especially Russia,
the students are more independent and difficult to control to organize
resistance.
But in Armenia the picture is different. In the result of long use of
students as a tool, the ruling system has devaluated it as a resource
capable of resisting to the foreign policy. Instead, the ruling system
is opening a new field of service for the students the main "polygon"
of which is certainly Yerevan State University, whereas it should be
turned into a "laboratory" of modernity, competitiveness and new ideas.
From: Baghdasarian