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THOSE TIRED NEED TO GO TO JAIL
Igor Muradyan
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/28107
Comments - Tuesday, 20 November 2012, 13:16
Controversial relations have been formed between Russia and Armenia,
which will anyway lead to more serious conflicts and problems. In
the current situation of mutual suspicion and understatement, it is
impossible to try to build partner relationship.
The Russian-Armenian relations are often called strategic, but we
need to take into account that besides the volume of indicators and
contractual framework, the strategic relations suppose mutual trust.
Not only trust, but also understanding of political priorities of
each other. Hence, is it necessary to deepen the chronically confirmed
situation and make our enemies happy?
Russians and Armenians have relations on all the level of politics
and daily life, but it would be a sign of narrow-minded thinking if we
attached decisive role to this. The best the official and non-official
contact may offer is stupid, not meaningful feast and rave version
of politics, diplomacy, public relations.
We can't say that people, engaged in the filling of the "daily
stupidity", are bad. Not at all, they are even friendly people, true,
who are used to comfort. When a catastrophic collapse of relations
happens between Russia and Armenia, no one will remember or find the
rave figures.
It is completely clear that the national interests of Russia and
Armenia, in certain directions, don't match, but at the same time,
these issues are not discussed at the official level, and there is
no intention to discuss them at all.
As we know, certain lines of relationship are formed between Russia and
Poland, which involve many layers of the society, the church and the
intelligentsia. Despite the four decades of partner relations between
Poland and Russia, during the communistic period, both countries and
nations chose the "free floating" in mutual hatred and anger.
Sure, concrete formats are incompatible, and the Polish-Russian problem
has a European significance, and the Russian-Armenian relationship has
local (regional) significance, but in geopolitics, quite unpleasant
and dangerous trends appear. So, it would be good to follow the unique
Polish-Russian experience and resort to the clarification of issues
between Armenia and Russia exceptionally in the political sense. (For
example, such a dialogue was proposed to the Armenian organizations
by Kurdish political figures).
What is the aim? The main aim is to pass from "brother" relations,
which have become dangerous and disputable, to political relations.
Along with this, the impression is that someone is not interested in
this at all and torpedoes such initiatives. Do we deal with personal
egoistic mercantile interest or with strategic calculation? It would
be good to find this out too. Perhaps, it looks more than a trivial.
As a Moscow political scientist, integrated in the state spheres,
said "we are tired, we want to sleep". If someone is really tired and
wants to sleep, then, what should we talk about? In such a large and
different country as Russia, there are various people and conditions,
and if someone is "tired", then they need to either retire or to go
jail, or to allow others, who are not yet tired, occupy their post.
Now, one doesn't get tired only when competing for greed. Therefore,
the reason for the lack of policy in the Armenian-Russian relations
is the contradictions between individual, group and national interests
of Russia.
Igor Muradyan
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/28107
Comments - Tuesday, 20 November 2012, 13:16
Controversial relations have been formed between Russia and Armenia,
which will anyway lead to more serious conflicts and problems. In
the current situation of mutual suspicion and understatement, it is
impossible to try to build partner relationship.
The Russian-Armenian relations are often called strategic, but we
need to take into account that besides the volume of indicators and
contractual framework, the strategic relations suppose mutual trust.
Not only trust, but also understanding of political priorities of
each other. Hence, is it necessary to deepen the chronically confirmed
situation and make our enemies happy?
Russians and Armenians have relations on all the level of politics
and daily life, but it would be a sign of narrow-minded thinking if we
attached decisive role to this. The best the official and non-official
contact may offer is stupid, not meaningful feast and rave version
of politics, diplomacy, public relations.
We can't say that people, engaged in the filling of the "daily
stupidity", are bad. Not at all, they are even friendly people, true,
who are used to comfort. When a catastrophic collapse of relations
happens between Russia and Armenia, no one will remember or find the
rave figures.
It is completely clear that the national interests of Russia and
Armenia, in certain directions, don't match, but at the same time,
these issues are not discussed at the official level, and there is
no intention to discuss them at all.
As we know, certain lines of relationship are formed between Russia and
Poland, which involve many layers of the society, the church and the
intelligentsia. Despite the four decades of partner relations between
Poland and Russia, during the communistic period, both countries and
nations chose the "free floating" in mutual hatred and anger.
Sure, concrete formats are incompatible, and the Polish-Russian problem
has a European significance, and the Russian-Armenian relationship has
local (regional) significance, but in geopolitics, quite unpleasant
and dangerous trends appear. So, it would be good to follow the unique
Polish-Russian experience and resort to the clarification of issues
between Armenia and Russia exceptionally in the political sense. (For
example, such a dialogue was proposed to the Armenian organizations
by Kurdish political figures).
What is the aim? The main aim is to pass from "brother" relations,
which have become dangerous and disputable, to political relations.
Along with this, the impression is that someone is not interested in
this at all and torpedoes such initiatives. Do we deal with personal
egoistic mercantile interest or with strategic calculation? It would
be good to find this out too. Perhaps, it looks more than a trivial.
As a Moscow political scientist, integrated in the state spheres,
said "we are tired, we want to sleep". If someone is really tired and
wants to sleep, then, what should we talk about? In such a large and
different country as Russia, there are various people and conditions,
and if someone is "tired", then they need to either retire or to go
jail, or to allow others, who are not yet tired, occupy their post.
Now, one doesn't get tired only when competing for greed. Therefore,
the reason for the lack of policy in the Armenian-Russian relations
is the contradictions between individual, group and national interests
of Russia.