Armenia’s Biggest and Most Dangerous Monopolist
Armenia’s Government announced a fight against corruption and monopolies. Everybody touches upon destructive implications of economic monopolies. The National Assembly discusses the new Tax Code, which, according to the authors, will make the tax field more equal, ease the tax burden, reduce shadow and increase budget entries.
If authorities are sincere, both in case of fight against monopolies and the Tax Code. However, will Armenia’s all major issues, which led the state to such disastrous condition, be settled? At first glance it seems the majority of Armenia’s issues are socio-economic, and in economy it’s be possible to essentially change the situation through a few breakthroughs. Maybe. However, Armenia’s more serious, in-depth issues are neither economic, nor social.
Simply the majority of these issues obtain social or economic manifestations. In fact, Armenia’s urgent issues are behind foreign policy. Moreover, accidentally, or naturally, they are expressed by the same vicious manifestations, like in economic life. A monopoly. Yes, this is the chief issue, which undermines Armenia’s economy, from which corruption is being derived as well, although corruption has wider, not only monopolistic engagement.
Isn’t Armenia’s foreign policy monopolistic regarding dependency from our country and total influence of that country? If we observe the issue from the standpoint of this comparison, we may record, that in the field of Armenia’s foreign policy Russia has right the same influence as Samvel Aleksanyan in sugar market.
Like a few sugar importers are formally registered, the same way Armenia, besides Russia, formally relates to other countries of the world. These relations in Armenia’s foreign policy have the same value, as a few small householders, who import sugar only for their production. Thus, they don’t have value and provide the formal part for the sake of monopolistic content.
And as Samvel Aleksanyan is obtaining a fat profit from his sugar monopoly, Russia is obtaining “fat profits” from its monopolistic influence over Armenia, which are reflected almost all infrastructures of energy system, gas pipeline passing through the territory of Armenia, field of connection and communication, railway and other fields in the form of sub-monopolistic influence. Presently Russia intends to make a profit from Armenia’s air defense system. Examples of Russia’s monopolistic influence over Armenia may be continued, however, tragedy of the condition won’t reduce.
Just the contrary. However, strangely enough, almost everybody, realizing of disastrous after-effects of monopoly in economy, fight or simulate fighting against it, however, they are indifferent towards Armenia’s foreign policy being monopolized, which together with its implications and disastrous effects, is much more hazardous, than internal monopolies altogether. Moreover, like in internal life economic monopolies are interrelated to larger corruption schemes, the same way in foreign policy corruption deals are derived from Russia’s monopoly, which are less visible, than “kickbacks” or “reimbursements.”
Biggest manifestation of corruption derived from interstate monopoly is reproduction of Armenia’s authorities. By that Russia “pays” Armenia’s authorities to obtain fat profits from the monopolistic position of the Republic of Armenia. Surprisingly enough, discussion to that end aren’t held in the National Assembly, nobody is able to offer a “Foreign policy code,” that would ban Armenia’s surrender upon monopolistic grounds to any country.
As the National Assembly is also the beneficiary of that great interstate corruption. Together with MPs of authorities and almost all opposition. Armenia needs competition, a real one, in all the fields, however, first and foremost, in the field of foreign policy. Otherwise one nice day Russia will sell Armenia as a “fake product.” Like Samvel Aleksanyan sells everything fake.
