Seven years after the so-called Velvet Revolution, we find ourselves not celebrating with inspiring dreams but burdened with painful realities.
Day by day, heavy with new anxieties and bitter revelations, we are left wondering: Where is the Armenian state going? Where are you leading our people?
The year opened with a new image of Armenia’s Prime Minister posted on Facebook. He appeared clean-shaven — “without moustache, without beard” — presenting himself as renewed, as if to declare the end of the revolution.
Behind him stood Mount Aragats, not Ararat, and a new map of Armenia — without Artsakh.
He appeared clean-shaven — “without moustache, without beard” — presenting himself as renewed, as if to declare the end of the revolution.
Author's summary: Armenian state faces painful realities after Velvet Revolution.