EFFORTS TO PULL ARMENIA OUT OF COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA PLAIN: SOCIAL RESEARCH FUND’S PRESIDENT

Trend News Agency
Sept 18 2008
Azerbaijan

Political expert Rashad Rzaguliyev, President of the Social Research
Fund of Azerbaijan, specially for Trend News

Resignation of the Armenian Parliament’s Speaker Tigran Torosyan was
initiated by the central body of the Armenia’s governing Republic
Party.

The statements that it is inefficient to keep Torosyan at the position
of the Speaker of the Armenian Parliament, disguised by unpleasant
rumours of private character, in fact are plain demonstration of
a split in the Armenian political establishment, demonstrating a
crisis in the relations between the powerful Armenian diaspora and
administration of the country.

The conflict is based on foreign political orientation of the official
Yerevan.

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, representing the powerful Karabakh
military and political group, is not the most popular politician of
the country and is categorical pursuer of pro-Russian policy. On the
contrary, international Armenian diaspora believes Russia’s resources
have expired and further going along with the northern neighbour, which
is waging war with the West, damages the national interests of Armenia.

That is the very concept lying in the basis of Armenian political
opposition, which is intensively gaining weight. Tigran Torosyan was
one of the victims of the growing crisis.

Genesis of the confrontation between the authorities and opposition in
Armenia, taking into consideration the factual account of country’s
newest political history, is fraught with bloody distemper. The
Karabakh clan, which came to power in Armenia through a military
upheaval, a priori cannot be overthrown by a free will of voters.