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  • Russia meddles in Armenia's affairs promoting Eurasian Union

    168 Zham , Armenia
    Feb 15 2013


    Russia meddles in Armenia's affairs promoting Eurasian Union

    [Translated from Armenian]

    An unprecedented thing has happened in the Russian Federation.

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has tasked the Federal Security
    Service [FSB] (present-day KGB) to protect Eurasian integration and
    cooperate with the FSB's counterparts from other countries for the
    sake of this cause.

    By saying other countries, Putin meant the countries included in the
    framework of the Eurasian integration. Naturally, the word is about
    Armenia as well, although only Belarus and Kazakhstan were mentioned
    as such.

    In essence, this is an unprecedented and sensational phenomenon,
    according to which Russia categorises all those who ideologically
    oppose the Eurasian integration as threats to national or state
    security.

    Meanwhile the striking thing in this issue is that Putin does not
    confine things to Russia's territory and Russian nationals.

    He orders the FSB-KGB to carry out actions on the territory of those
    post-Soviet republics, which Russia considers to be subjects, or more
    correctly, objects of integration, but which have people or public
    strata, which oppose integration, because they see a threat to their
    national or state security in it.

    In other words, Putin tasks his KGB in public to interfere in domestic
    affairs of those countries, and to impose certain attitudes on them.

    This is almost equal to an instruction or order for an armed
    operation. This means that from now on, Russia becomes engaged in
    forceful integration.

    Putin even spoke about force, saying that application of "small-scale
    force" is possible against obstacles to the integration.

    Many people would imagine what is meant under the assignment of the
    protection of some issue to the KGB. Many people have heard about
    methods and approaches of that entity.

    Therefore, if Armenia is included in the boundaries of Putin's defence
    positions, one may expect really unpredictable developments in our
    country.

    This means that irrespective of opinions on the Eurasian integration
    which may exist in specific circles in Armenia, Putin's speech
    obviously contains elements of claims of the yet non- established
    Eurasian Union on Armenia's sovereignty.

    Although Armenia was not mentioned, it is obvious that Armenia could
    be on the list of countries specified by Putin and thus, Armenia
    should react to what happened at all levels - official, political,
    public - for preventive reasons.

    Armenia should decide only independently what is beneficial for it and
    what opinion or idea to protect, in what way and from whom?

    Decisions on these issues are within the legal power of solely Armenia
    and its citizens and this must be declared in a clear, concrete, and
    decent manner.

    It is the affair of the Russian authorities to protect anything in
    Russia - in the sense of form and content of protection, and Armenia
    does not have the right to interfere in those affairs and does not
    need to do so.

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