EVERYTHING – AS USUAL
Hayots Ashkhar Daily
19 Sep 2008
Armenia
What developments can be predicted in the near future?
According to political scientist ALEXANDER ISKANDARYAN, "If the
opposition doesn’t manage to mount a strong wave of protest (which
is not quite likely to happen), everything will be as usual.
That’s to say, there will be groups of people criticizing the
authorities. Those groups will be united in a common ‘network’,
continue the struggle against the ‘regime’, but they will not have
enough potential for staging a revolution.
Moreover, their number will gradually decrease, and they will not be
able to do more than they have done so far. That situation cannot last
long; those people will turn into a kind of ‘strange body’ dissatisfied
with everything and hold demonstrations from time to time, reminding
about their existence.
In the course of time, the authorities will pay less and less attention
to them, making sure that they pose no threat to their ‘security’. And
I want this to happen very much because those people are, after all,
a constituent part of our society."