UNEXPECTED RISK FOR ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT

Hakob Badalyan, Political Commentator
Society – 12 February 2015, 15:10

The State Migration Service informed that its head Gagik Yeganyan is
on a business trip to Moscow to try to facilitate the entry of 50-60
thousand citizens of Armenia to Russia.

According to the message, this many citizens cannot visit Russia due
to tougher migration legislation.

The Armenian government has to face the fact. They were trying their
hardest for months on to persuade that membership to the EEU would
unify the labor market, and the citizens of Armenia would leave to
work in Russia more easily. Thereby an attempt was made to legitimize
the act against sovereignty.

After the act it was clear that the public had been deceived, or at
least the part of the public who trusted and expected that labor
migration to Russia would thus be facilitated. It turned out that
50-60 thousand people were left “out”, i.e. left in Armenia.

In fact, this is the most serious and to some extent also the tragic
aspect of the issue when the citizens demand that the government help
them leave the country instead of employment and dignity in their
own country.

What will be after the problem is resolved? It is not hard to
forecast. Once the problem of entry of 50-60 thousand citizens of
Armenia to Russia is resolved, they will not only work to earn money
but will also work to get Russian citizenship to avoid trouble and
deception.

It goes without saying the resolving the problem of entry is in the
government’s interest. The so-called revolution resource is leaving
and eating mouths get fewer. “To stay here to do a revolution?” the
ex-prime minister said.