YEREVAN—The seventh National Assembly of Armenia officially convened for its first parliamentary session since December’s snap election. Deputies were sworn in last week ahead of Monday’s meeting, completing the peaceful transition of power triggered by the Velvet Revolution of 2018.
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Armenia went through a bloodless revolution. Prime Minister played a pivotal political game and came out a winner with flying colors. So far so good, now let us see what are they going to do. They have the clear majority. With all the problems piling up, one wonders if the garbage-dump of old Yerevan is going to cover the whole country.
Garbage-dump will come from Putin if Pashynian does not play Russian lullaby!
The new parliament, if in fact it is the “parliament of Armenia”, should get to work and address the pseudo-alliance and all the violations of Armenia’s sovereignty by “Mother Russia” who just recently had the audacity to raise gas prices on Armenia, (as a political harassment and meddling in Armenia’s affairs) right after taking over Armenia’s gas infrastructure of course, and all the while sitting in Gyumri for free in disguise of “protecting Armenia” but at the same time protecting its own interests and national security for free. So the first item on the agenda in parliament: tell Russia to cut gas prices to a marginal amount, maybe even make it free, or else start paying the rent for the base in Gyumri, and any future gas price increases will result in rent increases at twice the rate.
The message and question that Armenia can pose to Russia is, our nation and our survival is of most importance to us, but don’t think that you have fooled us into believing that you are in Guymri just to “protect us” from Turkey. How much is the security of your own “Mother Russia” worth to you, where you won’t find US/NATO military bases stationed in Azerbaijan with nukes pointed at Moscow? And next the balkanization of “Mother Russia” into a dozen nations?