Stanislav Tarasov: “Karabakh has a feeling that something is going on behind its back”

“Every revolution has its genre and its episodes — external enemy, conspiracies, etc. In other words, this is the working style of a government that has a goal to maintain its influence, not solve the problems in society. Nikol Pashinyan has been in power for a year. The judiciary is one of the major branches of government, and the reforms in this sector had to be the first reforms. The Prime Minister didn’t undertake these reforms, the old judiciary continued to function, and there were many cases…the courts were functioning, and Pashinyan had no problems. As soon as the court released Kocharyan, Pashinyan immediately announced about the crisis in the judiciary,” Russian political analyst Stanislav Tarasov told 168.am, touching upon the interior political developments in the Republic of Armenia. According to him, this means that even though there is a crisis, it is based on world views. Pashinyan wanted courts to be liberal, but be subject to his will.

Yesterday Pashinyan also talked about the potential conspiracy in the process of settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and said that Artsakh is implementing propaganda that is against the Government of the Republic of Armenia and the Prime Minister personally and is based on falsehood, and analyzing this propaganda, he sees a conspiratorial goal to provoke a conspiratorial war, even hand over certain territories and place the responsibility for what happened on the Government of the Republic of Armenia. In this regard, Tarasov said the following:

“Listen, Armenians in Karabakh and Armenia are defending the territory that they want to keep under their control. On the one hand, when Pashinyan issued an order and dismissed the Minister of Defense of Karabakh from office, that was interference with the domestic affairs of Karabakh. On the other hand, Pashinyan states that Karabakh is a separate territory.

These are double and triple standards that no longer work in that society. This is a crisis of publicism and a crisis of genre, not politics. Pashinyan has found himself in a deadlock, but he needs to get out of that because he does not have the support that he used to have. People paid heed to his call and came out to the streets, but there were not as many people as there were in the spring of last year.

Moreover, many authorities, including the President, call on Pashinyan to observe the letter of the law. Pashinyan is finding himself in isolation little by little. Who is organizing a conspiracy in Karabakh? Is it Robert Kocharyan or Bako Sahakyan?”

When asked about the opinion that Armenia might take this path after Pashinyan’s statement and lay the blame on Artsakh, Tarasov said the following:

“This can be justified because the policy on Karabakh is very inconsistent. I have said several times that, as I look at several developments, I get the impression that there is a plan or project. Karabakh notices this and has a feeling that something is going on behind its back.

Let us remember how Azerbaijan acted in the hottest phase of the interior political developments in Armenia — Azerbaijan supported Pashinyan and there was an agreement in Dushanbe. Now, Azerbaijan views that the time for Pashinyan to take a breath is over and is setting forth specific conditions. One gets the impression that certain forces are gearing Pashinyan, and he is trying to place a share of the responsibility on Karabakh. There is a differentiation between Armenians of Armenia and Armenians of Karabakh. This is bad.”

You can read the article in its entirety in today’s edition of 168 Hours newspaper.