“THE GREATEST DANGER FOR ARMENIAN IS FROM INSIDE,” AMERICAN ARMENIAN ANALYST FINDS

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Mar 28 2006

WASHINGTON, MARCH 28, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The greatest
danger for Armenia isn’t from Turkey and Azerbaijan, but the
corruption is. Richard Giragosian, an independent political analyst
from Washington expressed this opinion. According to Radio Liberty,
the analyst also facted that Armenia was militarized and isolated after
the Karabakh war: “Georgia and Ukraine strive for Europe, Azerbaijan
for the Central Asia. In these conditions Armenia remains alone in
the region.” Richard Giragosian got such an expression from Armenia:
“I think that there are two Armenias: Yerevan and ouf of Yerevan.” In
the analyst’s opinion, there are two Armenians also in the sense
that in Armenia there are people grown rich and a stratum of poor
people: “This inner difference is very dangerous.” According to him,
supremacy of the law wasn’t established in Armenia, and the “powerful
one dictates the law.” According to the American Armenian analyst,
“the non-official opinion of Washington is that the revolutions
imlemented in some countries of the CIS with the ouside assistance were
premature, weren’t right. Now the opinion is that the movement must be
from inside and not by a stranger’s hand.” Richard Giragosian finds
that “the situation becomes difficult for America by the absence of
the opposition in Armenia. And untill the new opposition comes with
a new face, the state is hopeless.”