Tweet
ALAN KASAYEV: SOUTH CAUCASUS HAS BIGGER THREATS THAN MAIDAN
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
March 27 2014
27 March 2014 - 8:36pm
"Maidan" as a second name for revolution aimed at europeanization,
liberalization and undermining the state is typical for countries
of the post-Soviet space but not all of them - the South Caucasus,
which has bigger threats, does not fit the trend. This is the main
point of Alan Kasayev, Deputy head of the Department of Journalism
if the Moscow State Linguistic University.
"The Georgian economy has a transitory character, and the same can be
said about its political life. This is why quick changes of political
orientation are typical of Georgia," the expert said. "There are no
signs of a Maidan in Georgia today, but in the future a new nationalist
liberal regime can be expected - it will be the result of the unclear
economic policy of the current government."
As for Azerbaijan, this country should beware of external factors
such as "too attentive care about its future from the north and too
much political and ideological openness and trade expansion from the
south," Kasayev believes.
"For Armenia, the Maidan is an even smaller threat than to its
neighbors, but there is a bigger threat: history and circumstances have
taught Armenians to survive on their own so they can move to countries
with better infrastructure, and Armenia will simply be depopulated,"
the expert noted.
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
March 27 2014
27 March 2014 - 8:36pm
"Maidan" as a second name for revolution aimed at europeanization,
liberalization and undermining the state is typical for countries
of the post-Soviet space but not all of them - the South Caucasus,
which has bigger threats, does not fit the trend. This is the main
point of Alan Kasayev, Deputy head of the Department of Journalism
if the Moscow State Linguistic University.
"The Georgian economy has a transitory character, and the same can be
said about its political life. This is why quick changes of political
orientation are typical of Georgia," the expert said. "There are no
signs of a Maidan in Georgia today, but in the future a new nationalist
liberal regime can be expected - it will be the result of the unclear
economic policy of the current government."
As for Azerbaijan, this country should beware of external factors
such as "too attentive care about its future from the north and too
much political and ideological openness and trade expansion from the
south," Kasayev believes.
"For Armenia, the Maidan is an even smaller threat than to its
neighbors, but there is a bigger threat: history and circumstances have
taught Armenians to survive on their own so they can move to countries
with better infrastructure, and Armenia will simply be depopulated,"
the expert noted.