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"It's not scary to die. It's scary that after death
they will make a film and Bezrukov will play you," this phrase is
attributed to the wonderful Soviet theater and film actor Valentin Gaft. It was
an ironic statement addressed to the Russian actor Bezrukov, who managed to
play a variety of characters in the cinema, from Yesenin to Vysotsky,
eventually giving them another movie character - Sasha Bely from the TV series
"Brigade".
A similar situation has developed in Armenia. Current and
former artists of the local political scene perform there with New Year's
wishes, based on their own selfish interests. One of them is former Armenian
Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian. He has been trying to loudly remind himself
of himself for a long time, having found a job and acquired at least some kind
of current status. He has no feeling of disgust from the word at all.
I remember that he even considered the proposal of the
Russian-Armenian oligarch Ruben Vardanyan. The current prisoner of the Baku
pre-trial detention center, who was previously one of the leaders of the
Karabakh junta, offered Oskanian a truly anecdotal "position" - head
of the "foreign ministry" of "Artsakh". And the one who
once headed the Foreign Ministry of some country, but still a real one, agreed
to pose as the "chief diplomat" of a classic soap bubble.
To Oskanian's sadness and sorrow, the soap bubble burst very
quickly. Azerbaijan has fully restored its sovereignty and territorial
integrity by detaining and transporting the leaders of the Karabakh junta to
Baku, including the patron of Vardan Minasovich by the name of Vardanyan.
Which, of course, the retired goat drummer, namely Oskanian's current status,
periodically recalls.
He longs for their release, for all the leaders of the
Karabakh junta in Baku. He seems to have forgotten the saying about the
whistling of cancer on the mountain. Oskanian feigns optimism. It is clear that
the physiognomic features of this character deprive the citizens of Armenia of
the opportunity to accurately understand when he is optimistic and when he is
pessimistic. At the same time, Vardan Minasovich's desire to replicate
fantasies disguised as facts is visible and somehow not particularly hidden.
"Today there is an opportunity to realize their right
to return. The international community is ready to put this issue on the
agenda, it only remains for the Armenian authorities to protect it," said
the former head of the Armenian Foreign Ministry, referring to the Armenians
who illegally lived in the temporarily occupied territories of Azerbaijan. It
is even inconvenient to remind Oskanian that this group of Armenians will not
have such an opportunity until all the Azerbaijanis who were forcibly expelled
from there return to Armenia.
But, as they said in school, repetition is the mother of
learning. Accordingly, I would like to remind the former Foreign Minister of
Armenia that soon only cats will be born and it is ridiculous to put a cart
before a horse. Vardan Minasovich regularly makes attempts of this kind, but predictably
unsuccessfully. This is also the result of his attempts to present the current
Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, as a "scapegoat."
Oskanian convinces himself, first of all, as well as the
Armenian public that "Pashinyan has exhausted himself, the people are
tired of defeats, losses, abuses, arrogance of the authorities and their
manipulations." Without stopping at simply voicing an assessment of Nikola
Vovaevich's activities, the former diplomat proceeded to announce a toast, again
passing off his dream as a national opinion.
"It's time for Pashinyan to think about resigning, it
would be the best New Year's gift for the Armenian people so that the country
can be brought out of the current situation," he said. It is worth adding
here that the other day Oskanian tried to get involved in a correspondence
dispute between Pashinyan and the first, second and third presidents of
Armenia. Nikol Vovaevich challenged them to a debate. They refused. Oskanian
tried to replace them, but then Pashinyan did not respond to Oskanian's
attempts.
And it was logical. After all, no matter how many opinion
polls have been conducted, they demonstrate that it is Pashinyan who is the
most popular Armenian politician. Yes, in general, his rating is not high, but
it is several times higher than that of Ter-Petrosyan, Kocharyan, Sargsyan. But
Oskanian is not mentioned at all in the polls. Because his real rating is
somewhere around the zero mark. These are the Armenian realities.
And finally, I would like to state that the situation is
worth special study, in which the most popular politician in Armenia is the one
who made its war inevitable and, consequently, its defeat by Azerbaijan. At the
same time, Pashinyan should recall the phrase of the inimitable Gaft. Indeed,
the scary thing is not that Nikol Vovaevich is remembered for a series of
political fiascos, but for the fact that Vardan Oskanian gives him an
assessment.