HEAD OF FACELESS AND HOSTAGE COMMUNITY

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HEAD OF FACELESS AND HOSTAGE COMMUNITY

HAKOB BADALYAN

 

Story from Lragir.am News:

http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/28860

12:10 08/02/2013

 

Chairman of the World Armenian Congress and Union of Armenians of

Russia, Russian citizen Ara Abrahamyan underlined the importance of

voting on Yerkir Media television because the president elect is a

reason for being proud, he said. Abrahamyan said proud of Armenia

and the Armenian language.

 

Ara Abrahamyan's pride is unique and almost invulnerable. For instance,

the statement of the Russian TV commentator Leontief that Armenia

cannot exist without Russia didn't wound Ara Abrahamyan's pride. For

whatever reason, he did not issue a statement on behalf of the World

Armenian Congress and Union of Armenians of Russia calling Leontief

to refrain from offending the Armenians.

 

Ara Abrahamyan's pride is not wounded even when the Eurasian official

Viktor Khristenko compares Armenia with a Russian province stating

that Armenia can be an exclave. No statement was issued in this

relation either. Meanwhile, Khristenko's statement was an answer to

Serzh Sargsyan's remark which was a clear hint to Russia that no step

against the interests of the partner, in this case Armenia, can be

made. The point was about selling weapons to Azerbaijan. Russia and

Belarus supply weapon to Azerbaijan.

 

Almost an unprecedented thing happened, the Armenian president dared

to make a blunt remark to Russia. Ara Abrahamyan who is so proud of

Armenia should have been the first person to support this statement

but he did not utter a word, which means his pride was not wounded,

and Serzh Sargsyan was left alone in Moscow despite Abrahamyan's

pride and the numerous organizations serving it.

 

Of course, this is not only Abrahamyan's problem but of those 2 million

Armenians living in Russia. It is the biggest Armenian community in the

world but it is also the most faceless one in political terms. Populous

communities in foreign countries are usually a resource for Armenia to

render the relations with those countries more effective. But in the

case of Russia, the members of the community remind hostages which

are used as a weapon against Armenia.

 

Of course, the Armenian authorities have a big share of

responsibility. In the result of its economic policy remittances from

Russia are the base of the economy of Armenia.

 

But the first faces of the Armenian community of Russia are also

responsible, such as Ara Abrahamyan and others who have surrendered

themselves to the Kremlin and are proud of Armenia in line with the

Kremlin's interests.

 

It is not right to accuse the Kremlin if the point is not about a

Caucasian strategy. Moscow is not to blame because the effort of the

Armenian community to self-organize differently has not been seen yet.

 

In other words, the Armenian community and its so-called "elite"

have never expressed a wish or willingness to do or to be more to

enable us to blame Moscow for breaking their promise.