Responsible parliament requires responsible parliamentarians

By now, anything that had to be said about last week’s brawl on the floor of Armenia’s National Assembly has already been said. The sight of these grown men (yes, they were mostly men) engaging in a literal bench-clearing brawl in the most sacred chamber at the heart of Armenia’s democratic statehood would be pathetic under normal circumstances; but at a time when the country is still struggling with the worst global pandemic in a century, it’s a tragic blow to the crucial image of a uni