Armenia is being ‘Ukrainized’ — Movses Gazaryan

 
Speaking with Alpha News, Movses Gazaryan, a Russian expert on international relations, made analogies between Georgia and Armenia and also stated that Armenia is moving according to the Ukrainian scenario.

“Look at Georgia, which signed the Association Agreement, got up to its neck in projects with the countries of the Western community through NATO, the European Union. What happened to this country? This is a poor, semi-Turkish country that lives thanks to Russian tourists. In 2014, when the first sanctions against Russia were imposed, Georgia was allowed not to participate in all this idiocy—for one reason only: if economic contacts had been interrupted, this country would have simply collapsed, probably from poverty.

That is, people would not be in the best condition of life, so to speak. So, this is a living example when, even after many years of living in a pro-Western cocoon and being such a poor country, Georgia opens up to Russia. And even political elites, who are not pro-Russian at all but simply sane people who are not taking pills, like some people probably in Yerevan—sorry, even the current elites—have come to the conclusion that they cannot continue like this.

That is, it is unclear why, in terms of common sense, Yerevan is rushing to the European Union. As for visa-free travel, of course, the space for the free movement of goods, services, and human financial resources is good in the 21st century, it is necessary for almost all successful and competitive states, but is Europe waiting for Armenians? Is the United States waiting for Armenians? Maybe as dishwashers or guards. But what countries are actually waiting for Armenians?

Russia and post-Soviet countries. And not as dishwashers or security guards, but as people with higher education who will be able to integrate into Russian society and at the same time preserve their national identity,” the expert said.

According to the international expert, an authoritarian regime has been established in Armenia, in which the people simply accept the conditions imposed on them.

“I think it is a somewhat erroneous perception to consider that Armenia, relatively speaking, chose Pashinyan and this agenda. The situation here is similar to that in Ukraine. That’s why I say that there is a certain Ukrainization of the country. I would compare it with authoritarianism, with this form of dictatorship. The Armenian people did not choose, but were confronted with a fact,” Gazaryan concluded.