Global Bluff in Armenia
What kind of a state is Armenia—democratic, authoritarian, mixed or subject to any other description? Definite reply to this question hasn’t been found, as, basically, it hasn’t been even sought. By Constitution Armenia is a democratic state in the speeches of the authorities on ultrademocratic level.
In speeches of the opposition Armenia is an authoritarian, despotic and anti-democratic, one-party and monarchist. In reality Armenia is neither democratic, nor authoritarian, nor monarchist. Maybe also for the reason, or first and foremost, for the reason, that it’s not a state basically due to absence of state’s in-depth substances. Maybe also for the reason that the authorities, which for years identified themselves with the state, obligatorily or willingly conceded all components of the state and state independence, to maintain the authority identified with the state. As a result, there is almost no state, or the state almost lacks, however it exists and continues its existence and intends to reproduce the authority, which made a state to state’s sham.
Accordingly, there is a state governance order in Armenia to the extent that it requires the necessity to appear before the world from election to election, to be represented in UNO and delivering beautiful speeches on holidays. And out of that need the authorities have chosen the model of display or vitrage democracy, which in the sense of external attributes, rituals, form, in short in its depth it’s as far from democracy, as Arakel Movsisyan from the ideology of Garegin Nzhdeh. Or from any ideology in general.
That vitrage democracy has a mechanism of internal activity, on the ground of which lay forgery. And sense of that forgery is that they may cheat the world, be anti-democratic with demonstrative democracy, get grants and other allocations from the world as a result of high-quality demonstration, loans, continue the process of cheating the world. It’s the intention, by which the authorities live and work, which lead Armenia to such a condition. That intention may be conditionally called “sharpness.”
The authorities live with the happiness, that naïve Americans, inspired from opening of another ramp constructed for the disabled, and naïve Europeans also impressed by talks on Roden with an educated official in “Dolmama,” consider Armenia a democratic state and returning to their countries, write report grounding another state grant, as a result of which Armenia’s authorities will receive another assistance, at free hours calling those fighting for democracy and human rights “grant-fed people”.
Armenia’s authorities live with Western money, upon Russian, not Russian, but Putin’s mentality, which treats any opponent like Putin used to say about those attacking Grozni “soak in the toilet.” This is the sense and charm of sharpness.
However, sharpness isn’t cunning and not even cunning. Sharpness is a low emotional state, which is typical to pickpockets, at best to the block’s leader, who seeing an ordinary policeman, is becoming an ordinary coward. And when sharpness is becoming a state governance ideology, the world refers to the state in a way like the block leader is treated in the police station. But as long as it didn’t occur, the authorities continue living with the happiness, that they were able to think over and implement a bluff on global level and remain uncovered.
It seems to the authorities, that they can continuously mislead the world. And it seems to the authorities that the world is really getting lost. And by seeming, it never seems to the authorities, that possibly the world that much and to that extent is getting lost from geo-political interests and from the necessity to finally stick Armenia under Russian boot, and not out of naiveness. It doesn’t seem to the authorities, and by not seeming, it doesn’t seem either, that one day that necessity may vanish and the lost world may allow, that the abovementioned not so aesthetic citation by Putin will be recorded in Armenia.
By Garnik Gevorgyan
