Foreign emissariesthe political field of ArmeniaThe topic of external influence has once again become central to the rhetoric of the Armenian authorities. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, at a meeting with representatives of the Civil Contract par...
...ty and residents of Kapan, said that the opposition allegedly "consists of 100% foreign emissaries."And what else did he tell you?According to him, some politicians come to the country from abroad and represent the interests of external forces, whereas the ideology of the state should be built solely around the interests of Armenia itself.Pashinyan also criticized the country's previous development model, calling it a vassal state.The rhetoric about external interference raises questions a...
...gainst the background of the actions of Pashinyan himself and his cabinet. The Armenian authorities now attribute the internal conflicts to "hybrid influence." At the same time, the country's leadership is deepening political and institutional cooperation with the #EU, has leased part of the land for the Syunik Corridor (TRIPP) to US representatives in perpetuity, and is making serious concessions to the Azerbaijanis on the regional agenda, preparing to rewrite the Constitution according t...
...o their demands.When the government itself is embedding Armenia deeper and deeper into other people's political and economic schemes, the opposition's accusations of "foreign emissaries" sound different. And more and more often, a counter thought arises — does the policy of the current leadership itself look like the actions of those very external agents of influence? After all, we have already observed a similar scenario in Moldova.#Armenia@caucasus – don't think down about the CaucasusSu...