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Tomasz Lech Buczek
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Aug 23
Օգոստոսի 22-ին, ժամը 21.00-ի սահմաններում Մայնի Ֆրանկֆուրտում ավտոմեքենան վրաերթի է ենթարկել Տոմաշ Լեխ Բուչեկին։
Վարորդը Թուրքիայի 21-ամյա քաղաքացի էր։
Ոստիկանությունը պարզում է՝ դա դժբախտ պատահար է, թե դիտավորյալ արարք։
August 23:
On August 22, around 21:00, Tomasz Lech Bucek was hit by a car in Frankfurt am Main.
The driver was a 21-year-old citizen of Turkey.
The police are investigating whether it was an accident or an intentional act.
Avetik Ishkhanyan
I am asking a number of questions to Tatul Hakobyan.
For a long time, I restrained myself so as not to refer to the publications of Tatul Hakobyan, a great analyst, a skilled specialist in Armenian history, and a high-class journalist. This figure regularly makes publications about the Artsakh issue and as the ultimate truth, always refers to the theses of his idol Levon Ter-Petrosyan, that is, we should have ceded both the liberated territories and Nagorno Karabakh, which would have provided an opportunity for a quiet, safe life. But today I heard Tatul Hakobyan’s regular, already Nicolas propaganda and decided to respond. Tatul Hakobyan justifies the decision of the so-called Prime Minister to provide three checkpoints for Azerbaijanis in Armenia, and in his words calls “non-partisanship” a “madness”.
1. As a skilled political scientist, can you give just one example from the history of the world, that no nation, people, or state was “non-mythical”? The only case was in 1978. Camp David Agreement signed between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, according to which Israel 1979 returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt, in exchange for Egypt’s recognition of the state of Israel. I have said it several times, and I will repeat it again, being a “non-mythical fanatic” myself, I would heartily agree to certain concessions in exchange for the independent status of Artsakh. Interestingly, both Begin and Sadat were considered traitors by their countrymen and became victims of terrorism. By the way, Israel did not consider the Sinai Peninsula as its historical territory, in contrast to the historical Artsakh for us Armenians. However, I repeat my suggestion to give another example that there was any voluntary territorial concession for the sake of peace. Can you firmly assert that unilateral concessions from the Armenian side at one time would not have made the enemy more insolent, considering concessions as a sign of weakness, and like today, he would demand new concessions and it does not matter whether these concessions were made voluntarily or as a result of losing the war. Even your idol was surprised that the president of Azerbaijan does not show “generosity”. Or is your hope in the so-called international community, the same international community that tolerates the occupation of Cyprus, the genocide of the Yezidis that happened a few years ago? By the way, the second and third presidents of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, and Serzh Sargsyan were in favor of compromises, but the president of Azerbaijan wanted everything, both the liberated territories and Nagorno-Karabakh, with Syunik and all of Armenia in mind.
2. It is expected that you will counter me that Levon Ter-Petrosyan was in favor of step-by-step solutions, but not at the price of ceding the status of Artsakh. May I remind you, back in 1991? In the closed session of the Central Committee, he convinced the deputies to leave Artsakh as part of Azerbaijan. The interview was given to “Komsomolskaya Pravda”: “I would like to think that the status of an autonomous republic within Azerbaijan would fully satisfy all parties because in that case, Karabakh remains part of Azerbaijan, the territorial integrity of the country is preserved, and the people of Karabakh, in turn, have a guaranteed way of life. This is our position. We are ready to discuss everything at any level.”
3. I appeal to you once again, as the greatest connoisseur of world politics and history. How do you feel about such a politician who makes promises to the people, for example, to unite Artsakh with Armenia? “Until Nagorno-Karabakh is united with mother Armenia, fight, fight, until the end”, comes to power on that wave and… I won’t continue. Perhaps I will give another example myself: the current Prime Minister, protected by you.
4. In your speech, you justify and “reasonably” explain the decision of the prime minister to provide Azerbaijan with three checkpoints on the territory of Armenia. “It is important that the territory of Armenia becomes accessible for all neighboring states.” What generosity! I remembered Hovhannes Tumanyan’s poor Gikor. “Taste it!” It’s nothing that Armenian hatred continues in Azerbaijan, that citizens of any other country of Armenian descent are prohibited from entering Azerbaijan, that Azerbaijan claims the entire territory of Armenia, that our prisoners are suffering in Azerbaijan. I won’t continue…
5. What do you think about 2020? instigated peace, sorry, about war. Didn’t you already, before the war, give up propaganda with H1, dreaming about the barter trade of Azerbaijani agricultural products and Armenian brandy? Did you reach your goal? I’m sorry, but your point of view lacks national dignity, for you, the motherland is real estate, which can be lived well by handing it over piece by piece. Unfortunately, you are not alone and the propaganda of people like you has mostly reached the goal and you all think that there is little left. I hope we will not let it.
Edgar Ghazaryan, the former ambassador of Armenia to Poland, and former chief of staff of the Supreme Court are trying to revive the Armenian spirit of the beginning of the 90s of the previous century.
The spirit that guided our people in initiating the Karabakh movement, then transforming it into an independence movement, and finally winning the first Artsakh war imposed on us by the enemy.
As the first step in reviving the spirit, Edgar Ghazaryan, the son of Ferdinand Ghazaryan, deputy of the Supreme Council, scientist, and educator organized a meeting of the surviving deputies of the Supreme Council. Which was supposed to take place in the meeting hall of the government at 1 Melik-Adamyan address. Exactly where the Declaration of Independence was adopted on August 23, 1990. Naturally, it could not be pleasant to the taste of the person holding the position of the prime minister, to have people gather in the government meeting hall and discuss the issue of his resignation, and the meeting took place in the hall of one of the hotels, the second hotel, because the first one had agreed to provide the hall and then refused the promise. It is a familiar phenomenon, isn’t it, in today’s Armenia, to refuse a promise?
A few days ago, Edgar Ghazaryan appealed to Levon Ter-Petrosyan, as the first chairman of the Supreme Council of the first convocation, to lead the meeting, but it was not possible to meet with him. I think it was normal because, as far as I remember, the Declaration was not completely acceptable to Ter-Petrosyan 32 years ago. And today he will not have the desire to say even one bad word to his spiritual son. Not to mention his age, a 77-year-old man might not have been able to conduct the meeting. But if he wanted to, he could open it and then assign the driving to someone else and leave.
In fact, the participation of the first president of RA in even a symbolic meeting is conditioned not by state thinking, but by individual positions. And it is constantly said about him that he is the statesman who is gifted with statesmanship. Although I don’t think so, the person who was elected Chairman of the Supreme Council (in 1990) and then President of Armenia (in 1991) thanks to the slogan of joining Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia speaks in an interview to a Russian magazine in 1992 about the possibility of leaving Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan. And he did not resign.
Anyway, the meeting is already an accomplished fact, after some time the text of the statement expressing the collective will of the participants of the meeting will be prepared and published. And the “Independence” movement initiated by Edgar Ghazaryan will become the property of the citizens of the Republic of Armenia. If the latter are as active, conscious and as numerous as possible, as it will be required to remove Nikol Pashinyan from the post of Prime Minister, then we can record that the meeting of the deputies of the Supreme Council based on the Declaration of Independence of August 23 gave its result. If not, then… However, I do not lose my hope that this symbolic meeting and the movement started by it will eventually lead to the realization of the above-mentioned goal. Especially since it is free from party affiliation, which Armenian intellectuals have constantly spoken against.
H. C. When the referendum day of September 21 was declared Independence Day, a wave of unexpressed protest (or expressed among acquaintances, I don’t remember anymore) rose in me, why it was not done in terms of the day of adoption of the Declaration of Independence, August 23. In doing so, we missed the powerful emotional charge of adopting the Declaration in time.
Vakhtang Siradeghyan
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During the tenure of Nikol Pashinyan, economic development in Armenia is not possible.
This is an axiom. no rational person will make a long-term investment in a country whose power is in the hands of unprincipled, inconsistent people in everything, in a country that is defenseless against the attacks of hostile countries, in a country whose society has no confidence in its future or even tomorrow, and whose there could be an explosion in the center and kill dozens of people in a few minutes.
No matter how cynical it sounds, Pashinyan does not need the development of Armenia either. A developed economy means a developed and well-off society, which cannot tolerate Pashinyan’s semi-literate and incompetent government. Pashinyan needs a hungry, ignorant and apathetic population that can feed on lies and maintain a half-starved existence, satisfying itself with the humanitarian aid thrown at it by the government. At one time, Pashinyan said that Sargsyan’s government keeps the society in poverty, so that in every election, it has the opportunity to reproduce with 10,000 dram election bribes. After coming to power, Pashinyan decided that this theory is the only guarantee of the strength and existence of his power, and he decided to thoroughly implement this theory in his life. Despite the devaluation of the dram and the unspeakable increase in prices,
It is even more cynicism when, under such conditions, Pashinyan organizes some events dedicated to the development of the economy, like the recent two-day discussion held at the study center of the Central Bank in Dilijan, which was dedicated to the development of policies implemented in various sectors of the economy. The Economic Policy Council attached to the Prime Minister is holding a session, but there is no word in the official reports whether the issue of dram appreciation, which is the most relevant for the economy at the moment, was discussed during that session. Businessmen of Armenia, hundreds of organizations uniting them, have been warning for a long time that the appreciating dram is destroying their business, their products are becoming uncompetitive, they are losing markets acquired over time and with great efforts, they are suffering huge financial losses. workplaces are being closed, but the Armenian government keeps stone silent regarding these alarms. The most obvious manifestation of indifference is the dram exchange rate.
The authorities of Armenia say that we have nothing to talk with you. It’s okay that your business is dying, but Armenia’s economy is developing. If you don’t believe it, look at the official statistics and you will see that we even have double-digit economic growth. It’s okay that manufacturers, builders, high-tech enterprises are collapsing, instead trade and the service sector are growing. And the banks are even thriving, making huge profits from absurd commissions.
There is a term in economics – “Dutch disease”, which is a very clear diagnosis of the current state of Armenia’s economy. In 1959, a huge gas deposit was discovered in a place called Groningen in the Netherlands, from which the extracted gas contributed to the sharp growth of the extractive industry, which led to the growth of exports, the appreciation of the guilder, the growth of the trade and service sector, but, on the contrary, the country’s industry began to decline. The gulden had become so valuable that importing goods from abroad became far more profitable than producing them in Holland. Holland, of course, was cured of the disease because the country had a competent and long-term government, but the diagnosis and symptoms of the disease remained in history.
No gas field was found in Armenia, but as a result of the Russian-Ukrainian war, a large amount of foreign currency appeared in Armenia. Russian tourists, temporary residents of Armenia and businessmen bring with them a huge amount of foreign currency, which has led to dram appreciation. The country’s GDP is growing, but it is a toxic growth because the economy is not growing proportionately. Trade, service sector and banks are growing, but as a result of dram appreciation, other branches suffer losses and are suffocated as a result of this growth. They are demanding rescue measures, which are different, but there is nothing to do with their demand. Tomorrow, when the Russian-Ukrainian war will end and the Russians will return to their country, they will have the opportunity to do business in their country. That short-term effect of Armenia’s economic growth will disappear. And the closed and destroyed enterprises will no longer be possible to restore.
Do Pashinyan and his government representatives not understand this? No matter how semi-literate and incompetent the government is, they understand the seriousness of the disaster brought to Armenia as a result of their activities. But they are sure that this disaster will help to strengthen their power, that’s why they decided not to fight against it in any way.
Industrialists, builders, people involved in the field of high technologies are the most literate and developed part of the society. They are quite independent, because they are self-sufficient, they do not depend on the whims of the government and can create problems for the government. Meanwhile, traders and representatives of the service sector do not pose any threat to the government. They are not capable of consolidating and presenting some common demands.
It is beneficial for Pashinyan to be the head of the power of the tyrants and absolutists, he cannot aspire to more than that. A part of the society will bring and sell maika-tursik, nask from Turkey, and the other part will make beds for Russians and other tourists, drive a taxi, set the table, do hairdressing. What else does Pashinyan need? life is happy, livelihood is free. Of course, such a society is destructive for the country, but it is salvation for Pashinyan and his government.
Avetis Babajanyan
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August 23, 1990, became historic for the Armenian people.
By the Declaration of Independence, the Armenian people reserved the sacred message of their freedom-loving ancestors: free, independent Armenia. Independence gave us all the possibilities to have a strong and sovereign state. But unfortunately, the lack of state traditions and thinking was a serious obstacle to state building. Congratulations on the occasion of Independence Day, in these difficult days, we wish our national political and state maturity and determination. God bless you all
The government is fighting for the independence of the Republic of Armenia every day. N. Pashinyan’s message to Independence
RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan sent a congratulatory message on the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Armenia.
We present the message below.
“Dear people, dear compatriots, today is the 32nd anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Armenia.
The Declaration adopted by the Supreme Council on August 23, 1990 states that the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic is beginning the process of establishing an independent state.
That started process de jure ended with the independence referendum on September 21, 1991 and the recognition of the Republic of Armenia by the international community.
De facto, that process has not been completed until today, not because we don’t have independence, but because independence is like health, which even if you have it, you have to take care of it every day.
The government is fighting for the independence of the Republic of Armenia every day. Independence is security for us, which the international structures that provide are cracking before all of us, and one of the first cracks was unfortunately expressed in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Independence is regulated relations with neighbors. Although we have excellent relations with some of our neighbors, there is no significant progress in our relations with others, because they demand too much from us, or they think that we are demanding too much from them.
Independence is a strong alliance for us, but allies are not always allies of you, but of those who ally against you.
Independence is confrontation, and for the sake of our independence and statehood, we must have the will to confront ourselves, our history and worldview.
Independence is a mindset, a state-centric mindset, and the absence of this squanders sovereignty, security, the future.
Independence is freedom, and in our understanding, the people created an independent state to feel free and safe there. Independence is education, and until every child living in the remotest village has the same access to education as in the center of the capital, we must grieve for our future.
Independence is a rule of law, rule of law. respecting the law and not circumventing it should be a mark of superiority.
Independence is work, the kind of work that should create and create and not waste and spoil.
Independence is similar to the biblical parable of the ten manas, the advice of which is as follows: whoever has, to him will be given, and whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. And therefore, if we have Independence, we will have Independence.
I congratulate everyone on the occasion of August 23.
By Harut Sassounian,
I write this column with great sorrow and dismay.
Vahakn Dadrian, the preeminent expert on the Armenian Genocide, died in upstate New York on August 2, 2019, at the age of 93. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, he devoted his entire life to expose the Turkish denials of the Armenian Genocide. Dadrian conducted his meticulous research in Turkish, English, French, German and Armenian, publishing dozens of scholarly books and articles in professional journals.
One would think that a distinguished individual such as Dadrian would be respected, not only during his lifetime, but also after his passing. Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan took the right step by issuing a decision on August 19, 2019, to appoint a high-level State Commission to make the necessary arrangements for Dadrian’s burial in Yerevan and allocated an appropriate budget for the funeral expenses.
The members of the State Commission were: “A. Harutyunyan, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports; Z. Mnatsakanian, Foreign Minister; A. Torosyan, Minister of Health; A. Janjughazyan, Minister of Finance; H. Marutyan, Mayor of Yerevan; R. Martirosyan, President of National Academy of Sciences; V. Terteryan, Deputy Minister of Territorial Management and Infrastructure; V. Movsisyan, Deputy Police Chief of Armenia; Bishop Hovnan Hakobyan, Grand Sacristan of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin; A. Iskankaryan, Director of the Special Services for the Population; H. Marutyan, Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum; and G. Sarkissian, President of the Zoryan Institute (Canada).” Dadrian was the Director of Genocide Research at Zoryan.
After the Embassy of Armenia in the United States transferred Prof. Dadrian’s ashes to Armenia, a Memorial Service was held on August 31, 2019, at the National Academy of Sciences, where Dadrian was a member. The Service was attended by the State Commission members, as well as Ararat Mirzoyan, then Speaker of the Parliament, Dadrian’s 90-year-old sister, and other dignitaries and academicians. Prof. Dadrian’s ashes were interred at the Tokhmakh Cemetery in Yerevan.
Recently, when Maggie Mangassarian Goschin, Director of the Ararat-Eskijian Museum in Mission Hills, California, wanted to include a photo of Dadrian’s grave in her museum where Dadrian’s archives are stored, no one could locate Dadrian’s grave. After a lengthy search, Baghdig Kouyoumdjian of Paris and Hrair Hawk Khatcherian of Canada finally found Dadrian’s unmarked grave. It turned out that after three years of his burial, the State Commission did not have the courtesy of placing on Dadrian’s grave a tombstone or even a plaque indicating his name. The grave was shockingly covered with weeds and garbage. The two gentlemen placed a temporary plaque on Dadrian’s grave and cleared the weeds. This is the horrible treatment that this eminent scholar received in his homeland after his death.
Prof. Taner Akcam, a well-known scholar of the Armenian Genocide and Director of UCLA’s Armenian Genocide Research Program, was the first to sound the alarm on his Facebook page about the deplorable neglect of Dadrian’s grave. It is ironic that an individual of Turkish origin is more concerned about the despicable treatment of Dadrian’s grave than the Armenian government. Dadrian was Akcam’s mentor and collaborator on Genocide research. Akcam wrote on his Facebook page: “Dadrian does not deserve this. It is unacceptable and an immense shame that the grave of the founder of modern Armenian Genocide research is neglected and forgotten.”
In response to Prof. Akcam’s justified outrage, Mari Hovhannisyan, Program Coordinator of the Zoryan Institute (Armenia), issued a statement titled, “Tempest in a teacup.” She gave the excuse that the delay was “due to COVID-19 and the 2020 Artsakh War, Armenia was burying several thousand of its brightest sons and daughters, tragically lost due to both of these crises, each requiring their own appropriate tombstones.” This is an unacceptable excuse. Dadrian was buried seven months before COVID-19 affected Armenia and more than a year before the Artsakh War. That’s plenty of time to place a tombstone or at least a plaque on Dadrian’s grave, not to mention that almost two years have passed since the 2020 war and COVID-19 is no longer prevalent in Armenia. Furthermore, since Dadrian’s death, other individuals have been buried in nearby graves and they have a tombstone!
More troubling are the attempts to cover up this scandal. Zoryan’s Hovhannisyan wrote on her Facebook page: “We kindly request those who have raised this issue publicly to refrain from spreading unchecked information and making unnecessary comments, which can only lead to tempest in the teacup.” Vahan Hunanyan, spokesperson of the Armenian Foreign Ministry, and Harutyun Marutyan, Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum in Yerevan, issued similar meaningless excuses. This is the usual behavior of those who want to cover up their embarrassing mistakes. It would have been more appropriate to issue an apology and take immediate steps to place a tombstone on Dadrian’s grave.
If the State Commission members, appointed by Prime Minister Pashinyan, could not arrange to place a tombstone on the grave of a highly-respected Armenian scholar in three years, they should have been reprimanded by Pashinyan for their negligence and incompetence. This is a national scandal. It is also a regrettable indication that if Armenian officials cannot place a tombstone on a grave, how can Armenians trust their government to run a country with so many serious problems?
Finally, Prof. Dadrian’s grave should not have been placed in the Tokhmakh Cemetery. It would have been more appropriate to place the urn of Dadrian’s ashes at the Memorial Wall next to the Genocide Monument or the Komitas Pantheon, alongside other prominent individuals. That is the least the Armenian government could do to rectify its grave error.
We invite all deputies of the RA Supreme Council of the first convocation to the symbolic session of the RA Supreme Council on the 32nd anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence of Armenia and the situation around Artsakh, which will take place in the Milano Hall of the “Doubletree by Hilton Yerevan City Center” hotel (address: Grigor Lusavorcchi 4/ 2, next to the Circus), the beginning of on August 23 at 12:00.
Initiative group
So Ataturk’s children rule today.
Quotes from Ataturk’s book “Struggle against the Republic of Armenia”.
️«… It is absolutely necessary for Armenia to be destroyed politically and materially
▪️ It follows that our retreat due to the usual ceasefire agreement with Armenians cannot be discussed.
The military principles that we have passed on to Armenians should be directed not to leaving our Armenia – but to appear peaceful in front of Europe and to mislead our fathers.
▪️ Currently, it is very necessary to strengthen the Armenian army and confiscate ammunition, thus preventing the restoration of their military structure.
▪️ Under the pretext of preserving the railways and protecting the rights of the Muslim population, it is necessary to establish our military control throughout Armenia and thus control all roads connecting Turkey and Azerbaijan.
▪️ The above goal must be achieved secretly and softly, both in the text of the peace treaty and in the actions derived from it.
The condition is that it will always be presented as peaceful in the eyes of Armenians.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Struggle against the Republic of Armenia
Source: Goris Today