“This is a revolution? No, sir, it’s not a revolution, it is a revolt. “This pastiche for proposals reversed the famous dialogue between La Rochefoucauld and Louis XVI about the storming of the Bastille could well define the movement” Stop looting “which, for a week, engages youth, occupies the street, and passed bad nights our leaders. This nebula born from civil society without leaders, unrelated to the traditional parties is upsetting the political situation in Armenia, claiming the presence of a third party between the government and the classical opposition: the people. And especially young people. Notably absent from political life, and taillables bondsmen to thank you, in particular through conscription, those aged 18-25 in the country who has to defend the borders are suddenly assert their right to speak. They are invited in the debate via the “street”, since this is the only place available to express themselves, except of course the social networks where it is carried to modernity.

So this beautiful youth of Armenia today offers wonderful political lesson to the whole nation. Firstly by the dignity of his approach which proceeds from a necessary assertiveness, prelude of any release process. Then by its realism. Our young people do not chase utopias, do not call dreams. Brought to hard in a country where war is knocking at the door, they are fighting for very specific social rights. Last summer, it was against the increase in transport prices. This time, it’s against rising electricity rates. It is not a matter for them to promise the big night or a better tomorrow. But here and now to improve living conditions in the context of demographic hemorrhage that we know. They invent a new grammar of mobilization, longer solely confined to the identity and create a new algorithm on what should be the full citizenship in this post-Soviet state.

With them, no Parliament bis, or alternative program. We are not dealing with romantic whose claim targets is inversely proportional to the modest means, but realistic that open the field of possibilities on admittedly modest reforms, but achievable. However, significant changes, since they allow not only to positively affect the daily, but in doing so to conquer the right to speak, to reclaim the state, the nation, and force gently the transition to democracy by introducing civic engagement. The popular will was kicked out of the polls because of fraud? She comes by the street window to be heard! This is what we said watermark “No looting”, this Armenian declination undoubtedly the “Podemos” Spanish, Turkish Guézi, the May 68 French.

In this sense, this revolt also galvanized with songs and patriotic slogans, has accents of cultural revolution, carries a heavy load of hopes. But also very mature. So far our young people have achieved a faultless not only clearly circumscribing their axes of struggle, but also unambiguously opting for non-violence. We are not on 1 March 2008. The protesters are not going to confrontation. They are not fighting the security forces, but opposed their passive resistance, peaceful, making it more difficult temptations to resort to ruthless repression.

Especially since, prodigy of globalization and the Internet, cameras are everywhere and that the web follows planet live events. The authority is aware, that is until now remained master of himself in a relatively moderate management repression. Water cannon and muscular arrests certainly, but no free rein to unbridled brutality not use tear gas or fillers police batons in hand. At least until these lines are written.

The regime in front of him the children of the motherland, the best of his son. A young, beautiful, proud and intelligent. And it seems that he has not yet the will to declare war, while, for its part, it does not give him the excuse, setting limits to its objectives and calibrating its methods of struggle. There is in this standoff, a nice lesson of wisdom and political virtue of a country that is learning democracy, to blow social crises and popular upheavals. As in Europe.