The second-rate

Turkish collaborationists stood out once again. Turns out, it is not a simple task to integrate Armenians into the ‘society of the Republic of Armenia’. Especially when ‘prominent figures’ from the team of the still acting ‘prime minister’ Nikol Pashinyan are involved, having decided to draw a clear demarcation line between the residents of the recently surrendered Artsakh and ‘orthodox’ Armenian citizens. For example, the Artsakh ‘refugees’ caused a lot of displeasure to Young Janissary Mirzoyan. He had to get his arse off his cosy office armchair, strain himself, accommodate the displaced people for 2-3 days, provide them with basic food and temporary shelter. In short, if it were not for the ‘assistance of the international community’, Mirzoyan and his kind would never have made it out. After all, helping those in need is more sophisticated than talking rubbish about the ‘political will’ to sign a humiliating peace contract with Baku from a high rostrum.

Now, on top of that, according to the quasi-foreign minister, the ‘refugees’, of which for some reason he has counted as many as 140,000, not 120,000 as in reality, should be assimilated. One could imagine that it was not our Artsakh brothers and sisters who arrived here, but more than a hundred thousand aliens from some unknown ‘Bantustan’.

However, the Foreign Minister’s rhetoric should come as no surprise. It fully aligns itself with the statements of another enthusiast of making peace treaties with enemies – the ‘Prime Minister’. Nikol Pasha also recently stated in a plain language that Artsakh was ‘a rope around Armenia’s neck’, exploited by outside forces in their vested interests. Outside forces are just like that. Only what about the statement ‘Artsakh is Armenia, full stop’? Oh yes, it must have been forced by the very same external forces that made Nikol Noodlyan-Pashinyan recite it back in the day. And in fact, it’s not really a ‘full stop’ there, but rather a ’suspension point’.

Well, perhaps we should thank him for clearing that up. The acting Cabinet of Ministers delivers to the people of Artsakh an unequivocal message: ‘Armenia is not your home. A country of current residence at best. First Artsakh was a ‘rope around our necks’, now the ‘refugees’ from there, whom we tolerate graciously. So as long as you are staying here with our permission, strive to assimilate into ‘polite’ society and be infinitely grateful for the opportunity to spend time on Armenian territory.’