POLITICAL SITUATION IN ARMENIA FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF INTELLECTUALS
Alisa Gevorgyan

"Radiolor"
20.01.2009 16:18

President of the Union of Writers of Armenia backs a Bulgarian
Hero’s theory of division of labor, i.e. the writer should write,
the artist should paint, the doctor should cure. However, the upcoming
session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)
and the threat of depriving Armenia of the right to vote made the
President of the Union of Writers and architect Levon Igityan leave
aside their professional duties and look at the political situation
from the viewpoint of an intellectual.

"Let’s not look at all this through black glasses and let’s try to
value what we have," Levon Ananyan urges. He is confident that there
are many things that do not depend on us. According to him, more than
ever we need to be united, while in reality the opposition says one
thing, the authorities – a different thing, and the society insists
on the third thing.

"This polarized and extremely politicized atmosphere does not promise
anything good," the President of the Union of Writers is confident.

Architect Levon Igityan says we have become a society seeking
scandals. We do not like thinking long and it constantly seems
to us that others should think and act instead of us. According
to Levon Igityan, this is our greatest problem with all its
manifestations. Levon Igityan is optimistic about the decision to be
made at the forthcoming PACE session.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress