Lragir, Armenia
Oct 13 2007

IT IS TOO ARROGANT ON BEHALF OF ARMENIANS TO CONSIDER THEMSELVES AS
RUSSIANS’ RIVAL

The Moscow-based political scientist Andranik Mihranyan explains the
murders and other expressions of chauvinism in Russia saying that the
Russians are now seeking their national identity. He spoke about this
issue on October 12 at the National Press Club in Yerevan. Mihranyan
said the quest for identity causes such expressions, clashes with
other ethnicities. Mihranyan thinks similar cases occurred in the
Soviet years but were not made known to public.

`It is a deadlocked line which is observed in all the countries of
the world,’ Andranik Mihranyan says referring to European societies
where nationalistic moods tend to rise since, for instance, Arab
neighborhoods are emerging in more and more European capitals.

Mihranyan thinks Russia is not an exception but the political
scientist says it should not be thought to be an anti-Armenian
policy. Andranik Mihranyan says it would be too arrogant to think so.
`Those who think so are being arrogant when they think the Armenian
element is the element, as I said at the Council of Europe when a
Latvian parliament member said Russia needs to shape its
self-consciousness, its state opposite to something, I said you are
dreaming, it is an illusion if you think this great nation shapes its
national ideology, statehood opposite to such microscopic nations and
states. You see there are scales, notions, it is necessary to be more
realistic and sober in dealing with the reality,’ Andranik Mihranyan
says.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress