"Fact" daily writes: The current leadership of Armenia welcomes the ending and the new year with another political "inventions". It turns out that it is possible to talk about peace when you have been inciting war for years, betraying your compatriots and your state.
We can talk about victory after several years of heavy and systematic defeats. One can talk about the strengthening of sovereignty, when in reality its last pillars are crumbling. Another "innovation" was added to all this. how to conduct a foreign policy when it does not really exist. More precisely, when the foreign policy resembles the erratic behavior of a person with bipolar disorder. For eight years now, aggressive anti-Russian propaganda has been carried out on a daily basis, on all state and near-state platforms.
Anyone who dares to raise a question or object is immediately labeled a "Russian agent". However, the key figure of the same propaganda regularly goes to Russia, meets the Russian leadership, hugs, exchanges warm statements, signs documents and talks about how beneficial cooperation with EAEU is for Armenia. Then he returns to Yerevan, and everything starts from the beginning: a new wave of mudslinging against all those who have a different opinion, and demonstrative receptions with those "Europeans" who have neither ideological nor political connection with Europe. Instead of a balanced foreign policy, hysteria, chaos and complete uncertainty.
The year 2025 became another year of losses for Armenia. And in the background of all this, the head of the country continues to obey the demands of the neighboring state, step by step giving up the state positions. Armenia effectively abandoned its most important, if not its only, strategic card, the Zangezur Corridor, simply renaming it the Trump Way.
Armenia did not get anything in return. There was no opening of mutual communications on an equal basis, the prisoners were not returned, the right of return of Artsakh citizens was not ensured. At first, the public was convinced that it was a 99-year lease. Then it turned out not 99. At first they announced that everything will be under the sovereignty of Armenia. Then it turned out that Armenia will not actually be there, there will be no border and customs control.
At first they talked about the absence of third countries, then it turned out that there will be. It is the same handwriting as before the war, during the war and when Artsakh was handed over. The same mechanics lie. The next link in this political chain was the attack on the last institutional pillar of national identity, the Armenian Apostolic Church. The gross interference of the state in the internal affairs of the church is no longer being tried to be concealed.
We all saw that disgusting footage when a group of traitors broke into Etchmiadzin Cathedral and tried to organize a sacrilegious show. The good news was that the people stood by the church and stopped this mockery. Addressing these topics, Doctor of Political Sciences Artur Khachikyan emphasizes that the process started against the Church is not internal self-activity. According to him, when external pressures reach the point where an attempt is made to control the election of the spiritual leader, it is no longer an internal political crisis, but a signal of the loss of statehood.
Khachikyan notes that the division of the church is a direct path to the destruction of the national identity, and the destruction of the identity to the transformation into a controlled territory. In fact, today it is already being talked about that the government of Armenia is trying to influence the election of the Catholicos at the behest of the neighboring country. This is a complete and indisputable loss of independence. Today it is decided who should be the Catholicos, tomorrow it will be decided who will be the prime minister, and the next day who will spit on whom in the National Assembly. In parallel, a process of economic integration is starting, which does not strengthen Armenia, but deepens its dependence on its neighbors, turning it into a politically subordinate area.
Independence wears out not all at once, but step by step, and that process is almost coming to an end. Another obvious manifestation of the loss of independence is the open and official intervention of foreign powers in the electoral processes of Armenia.
Added to that are the ongoing repressions, political persecutions, restrictions on freedom of speech. All the European values that were loudly talked about in 2018 have either been betrayed or turned into empty slogans. There remains the hope that in the new year the Armenian people will finally stop Armenia's descent into the abyss. He will say his word and decide that losing the state and living under foreign dictates is not worth it in exchange for money, asphalt, or "visa-free" travel.
The salvation of Armenia is only in the hands of the people. Only he can stop this capitulation and return the right to the future of the state.
Details in today's issue of "Past" daily
