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BANKING OLIGARCHY VS CRIMINAL OLIGARCHY
Naira Hayrumyan
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/27958
Comments - Monday, 05 November 2012, 15:16
The anti-corruption meeting of the government passed softly and safely
although it seemed that the civil society and the opposition would
help Tigran Sargsyan to deal with this scourge. It even seemed that
the prime minister invited representatives of the civil society on
purpose so that they finally said out loud what has long been said.
It is said that corruption is not the disease but the essence of the
ruling system. The system is built on corruption, and if at least one
fact of large kickback is revealed the entire system will collapse
like a house of cards.
Corruption is when money taken by the cops from drivers reaches the
president, when the state budget is already pre-shared between the
ministers and other officials and they just "spend" the budget as
individuals.
Armenia has a classical system of thieves, and even if it is not
led by a "criminal-in-law" but a very intelligent person he or she
is adjusted to the system, anyway. It has already been stated that
after the collapse of the Soviet Union which formally lay on the
patriotic and democratic platform and a parallel system of thieves,
the government of Armenia has started operating only by the system of
criminals. And corruption in the system is legal. Moreover, it helps
to make the "common fund" and the richness of the members of the
"mutual collective responsibility group".
In neighboring Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili said before the recent
election that his greatest fear is the return of thieves whom he with
everyone's approval has expelled. The fresh prime minister Ivanishvili
reassured him, saying that he was not going to make criminals return
to Georgia. Time will show how everything will go but it is clear
that Georgia has been able to eradicate corruption only because the
thieves' system was broken.
Tigran Sargsyan whom the president has "requested" to eradicate
corruption, is trying to eliminate the system of criminals and build
the government of financial and banking capital. The difference is
small. This is just a banal transfer of money from industrialists to
financiers. In fact, a fight is underway in Armenia at the moment.
In any case the outcome of this struggle will be bad for the citizens
because the two systems consist lawful or unlawful ways of picking
our pockets. If the old criminal oligarchy wins, we will continue to
live under the law of thieves and corruption which have penetrated into
the kitchen even. If the banking oligarchy wins, everything can become
a bit more legitimate at the lower and middle levels but the economy
will become a big financial bubble which may burst at any moment.
Naira Hayrumyan
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/27958
Comments - Monday, 05 November 2012, 15:16
The anti-corruption meeting of the government passed softly and safely
although it seemed that the civil society and the opposition would
help Tigran Sargsyan to deal with this scourge. It even seemed that
the prime minister invited representatives of the civil society on
purpose so that they finally said out loud what has long been said.
It is said that corruption is not the disease but the essence of the
ruling system. The system is built on corruption, and if at least one
fact of large kickback is revealed the entire system will collapse
like a house of cards.
Corruption is when money taken by the cops from drivers reaches the
president, when the state budget is already pre-shared between the
ministers and other officials and they just "spend" the budget as
individuals.
Armenia has a classical system of thieves, and even if it is not
led by a "criminal-in-law" but a very intelligent person he or she
is adjusted to the system, anyway. It has already been stated that
after the collapse of the Soviet Union which formally lay on the
patriotic and democratic platform and a parallel system of thieves,
the government of Armenia has started operating only by the system of
criminals. And corruption in the system is legal. Moreover, it helps
to make the "common fund" and the richness of the members of the
"mutual collective responsibility group".
In neighboring Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili said before the recent
election that his greatest fear is the return of thieves whom he with
everyone's approval has expelled. The fresh prime minister Ivanishvili
reassured him, saying that he was not going to make criminals return
to Georgia. Time will show how everything will go but it is clear
that Georgia has been able to eradicate corruption only because the
thieves' system was broken.
Tigran Sargsyan whom the president has "requested" to eradicate
corruption, is trying to eliminate the system of criminals and build
the government of financial and banking capital. The difference is
small. This is just a banal transfer of money from industrialists to
financiers. In fact, a fight is underway in Armenia at the moment.
In any case the outcome of this struggle will be bad for the citizens
because the two systems consist lawful or unlawful ways of picking
our pockets. If the old criminal oligarchy wins, we will continue to
live under the law of thieves and corruption which have penetrated into
the kitchen even. If the banking oligarchy wins, everything can become
a bit more legitimate at the lower and middle levels but the economy
will become a big financial bubble which may burst at any moment.