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EXPERTS COMMENT ON PROTESTS AT RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN YEREVAN
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
July 17 2013
17 July 2013 - 10:31am Residents of Yerevan held protests near the
Russian Embassy in Yerevan to express outrage over the conditions of
detention of Gracha Arutyunyan, a driver suspected of killing 18 people
at Podolsk (Russia). The suspect entered the court hall wearing a
woman's bathrobe. The protesters in Yerevan offered Russian Ambassador
Ivan Volynsky to put on a similar bathrobe and leave the country.
Andrey Areshev, a scientist of the Institute for Political and Social
Research of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea Region, emphasized that any
event related to Russia was a matter of negative public attention. The
car accident caused by Arutyunyan demonstrates that any information
can be given in a negative tone. Protests at the Russian embassy
cannot leave people without surprise, Areshev goes on.
The expert believes that authorities should calm the people down,
although someone needs the situation to escalate. Both sides need to
overcome the negative trend. Areshev notes that people in Armenia who
assume that a quarrel with Russia and a rapprochement with Georgia
would benefit Armenia are wrong.
Armenia is aware that such meetings are attended by the very same
people. Indifference of Armenian authorities to the problem seems
strange, the scientist says.
Tigran Minasyan, a post-graduate of the History Faculty of Neighbouring
States of the MSU named after M.V. Lomonosov, emphasized that Armenian
ombudsmen were outraged by treatment of the driver suspected of
the accident.
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
July 17 2013
17 July 2013 - 10:31am Residents of Yerevan held protests near the
Russian Embassy in Yerevan to express outrage over the conditions of
detention of Gracha Arutyunyan, a driver suspected of killing 18 people
at Podolsk (Russia). The suspect entered the court hall wearing a
woman's bathrobe. The protesters in Yerevan offered Russian Ambassador
Ivan Volynsky to put on a similar bathrobe and leave the country.
Andrey Areshev, a scientist of the Institute for Political and Social
Research of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea Region, emphasized that any
event related to Russia was a matter of negative public attention. The
car accident caused by Arutyunyan demonstrates that any information
can be given in a negative tone. Protests at the Russian embassy
cannot leave people without surprise, Areshev goes on.
The expert believes that authorities should calm the people down,
although someone needs the situation to escalate. Both sides need to
overcome the negative trend. Areshev notes that people in Armenia who
assume that a quarrel with Russia and a rapprochement with Georgia
would benefit Armenia are wrong.
Armenia is aware that such meetings are attended by the very same
people. Indifference of Armenian authorities to the problem seems
strange, the scientist says.
Tigran Minasyan, a post-graduate of the History Faculty of Neighbouring
States of the MSU named after M.V. Lomonosov, emphasized that Armenian
ombudsmen were outraged by treatment of the driver suspected of
the accident.