Political Protests Continue in Armenia

All of Mr. Pashinyan are legitimate, specially the independent of Universities from any political powers, which hopefully will produce fair and Honest future leaders; and most importantly the control of corruption, what Pashinyan has suggested should not be limited to elected officials but should cover any dissection making official who can affect the welfare of the citizens.

When a country is in turmoil, normally, the leader reaches out to people trying to ease the tension and reassure them. Probably, offering some compromises. To do this, the leader normally gives an interview to a local respected and unbiased reporter, answering a few tough and even embarrassing questions. In Armenia, meanwhile, Serjik gave an interview today, not to an Armenian journalist but to Russian Izvestia!! And the questions were not about people or demonstrators. Serjik was explaining to the Russian journalist how is he going to be in charge of foreign policy, trying to show his loyalty to his master Putin.
This is not the first time that Serjik shows his utter disregard for what is going on in the country. A few years ago, he was silent for almost a month when demonstrators closed Baghramyan. He is not only corrupt and incompetent but suffers from delusion of grandeur. It is as if he doesn’t give a damn about what the “peasants” say or do. Before the April war, he kept repeating that Armenia has the most combat-ready army in the region. After the war, it became clear that soldiers are fighting with 80s weapons and forget about Israeli drones, they don’t even have the most basic night vision goggles! This man is a menace to the country. Sadly, he wont leave easily. In all likelihood, it will take a few more years of plunder and embezzlement and possibly even a default till they get rid of him.
We in diaspora can do more than following the news. The demonstrators are in dire need of money and diaspora can help in this regard. At least, you know that your money is not going to end up in some oligarchs pocket.

As I reflect the current events after my Armenian American family office, http://www.continentaladvisory.com hosted the http://www.invest-armenia.com forum in NYC with Asia Development Bank’s support, the current parlimentery scheme by the Republican Party suggests a Demand Diaspora 2020 aka “DD2020” where as Diaspora concerns from Eurozone/MENA/Americas are represented in the parlimentery proceedings; real seats and real votes.
This current status of Ministry of Diaspora and blind faith support by the Apostolic Church/AGBU is naive at best. The past 10-years of the current political party has shown limited developmental gains for RofA with few pockets of excellence whilst the issue of depopulation, and severe health/infrastructure issues abound. The global diaspora in a new DD2020 voting movement needs to be represented as the old century order of Apostolic Church/AGBU does not represent concerns of most Armenians who have given human capital and treasurer. Hence, DD2020 allows the current regime to enact its so called policy agenda with measurable outcomes. If not, as we say in Brooklyn, New York, “throw the bums out!”