The appeal of the Russian Foreign Minister is the Kremlin’s first serious warning to the Prime Minister of Armenia and his team. It is noteworthy that the ruling party of Armenia fully agrees with the Kremlin’s opinion and through the press secretary spread a statement in which the party calls on citizens to exercise sober mind and realize the CSTO’s without alternative.
Pashinyan, as “a man from the street” pursues one goal – to please the street. And then, this treat will work until the “warmth” of the street is over. As practice shows, all street putsches end with the deepest disappointment and indignation that “it used to be much better and a dollar for eight” (an example of the Ukrainian coup and its consequences).
Unlike Ukraine, where there is some, but the working class (those who did not have time to go abroad yet), which supports the country afloat after several decades of robbery by the authorities, Armenia does not have such a “safety cushion”. Armenia, unlike Ukraine, is not able to resolve the conflict with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh without internal shocks.
The exclusive difference between Armenia and Ukraine is the absence of internal enemies. To envy Ukrainian nationalists, Armenia is a mono-ethnic state. Even during the Soviet era there was not much Russian population, and the Azerbaijanis left the territory of the republic after the defeat of the “friendship of peoples” in the late 80-90s of the last century.
Pashinyan is already starting to develop a conflict with the leadership of the European Union. Recall Pashinyan accused the eurodeputies in greediness, as they give him “a miserable 100 million euros and not a cent more.” It is noteworthy that along with the indignation towards the European Union, Pashinyan, in the best traditions of Peter Alekseevich (Poroshenko), speaks of “Eurointegration primarily”.
However, despite all the negative, there is optimism in Pashinyan’s office and on August 17 in Yerevan they intend to hold a rally, which the supporters of the Armenian prime minister call “an answer to Sergei Lavrov”.
Pashinyan’s media outlets in Armenia resent the statement of the Russian foreign minister and in small steps inflate the topic of “Russia’s interference in the internal affairs of the republic”, hinting at the participation in the clashes in March 2008 in Yerevan of the Russian antiterrorist special forces “Alpha”. All these statements resemble the hysteria of the Ukrainian media during the EuroMaidan period.