"Fact" daily writes:
"The authorities of Armenia in 2025 continued to serve the foreign political agenda, which was dictated from outside, and the entire domestic political agenda aimed to break as much as possible the resistance that could be formed inside Armenia in order to prevent the execution of those foreign orders. In this regard, the authorities of Armenia conducted a rather harmonious policy.
I can claim that in 2025, Armenia almost completely came under foreign rule. Moreover, the main operator of external governance, which has established external governance over Armenia through the Armenian authorities, is Azerbaijan.
This does not mean that only they are the main strategists and beneficiaries. Turkey, Great Britain, and other external players carry out external management of Armenia through the Azerbaijan operator, which, of course, carries out this external management through the current authorities of Armenia. This is perhaps the simplest result concerning Armenia in 2025," said Vigen Hakobyan, a cultural technologist, in a conversation with "Pasti".
He emphasizes that Armenia's internal agenda was aimed at serving that external order, that is, creating an unimpeded field as possible to serve the goals of that external administration.
"Arrests, repressions, this unprecedented and shameful anti-Christian campaign against the Armenian Apostolic Church, the closure of the issue at the level of withdrawing from the Minsk Group in the case of Artsakh, the actual rejection of the Armenian Genocide agenda, the creation of an artificial discourse between "real and historical Armenia", the implementation of the "Education is Fashionable" project, i.e. the brainwashing program aimed at reshaping the Armenian people.
They want to make an Armenian person into a cosmopolitan amoeba or substance. All this is aimed at the smooth implementation of their goals by foreign rulers. It is very important for those who implement external administration towards Armenia, so that the authorities in 2026 keep the tools in their hands, they do everything so that these authorities are reproduced in 2026. At the end of the year, we witnessed an unprecedented political phenomenon, when the Eurobureaucracy directly, without hiding, intervened in Armenia's internal political and electoral agendas.
It was said by Kaya Kallas, the person responsible for the foreign affairs of the European Union, that the authorities of Armenia appealed to the EU to assist the current authorities of our country in the alleged hybrid war against them. This is an unprecedented and external intervention in the internal affairs of Armenia, that is, in this case, the Eurobureaucracy, the layer of the West, which is called the deep state, and which is one of the main opponents of today's US administration, directly finances the Armenian authorities in the pre-election campaign, providing 15 million, promising the financing of various programs, etc.
This is still being done openly, one can only guess what financial, administrative and political resources have been put in place so that today's administration of Armenia, as an instrument of external governance, maintains its power in Armenia," the cultural technologist notes.
He thinks that the 2026 elections solve a strategic and ontological problem for the Republic of Armenia. "Armenia is a "failed state" by political science definitions, because Armenia, being a subject of foreign administration, does not independently manage either its security or its economic policy.
Even now, economic impotence will gradually be added to political and military-political impotence. The authorities of Armenia are purposefully doing everything to make Armenia dependent on its rival Turkey and Azerbaijan. All these projects, which are connected, as it were, with the import of goods through the territory of Azerbaijan, diversifying the market of oil products, that is, with the import of Azerbaijani oil, put the ontological, socio-economic situation of Armenia in even greater dependence on Azerbaijan.
The key to your energy or fuel policy is to be in a lying position with regard to Azerbaijan, because as soon as you want to raise your head, they will simply shut down everything. Your rival country does not hide its strategic ambitions related to the territory of Armenia. As much as they talk about peace, a signed document, the beginning of the era of peace, against the background of these bluffs, Aliyev continues to declare that there is a concept of "Western Azerbaijan", that they will come to Armenia by cars, not by tanks.
They are constantly talking about the return of 300,000 to 400,000 Azerbaijani refugees and their descendants to their former places of residence. It is forced that the basic law of Armenia be reshaped according to the taste and aspirations of Azerbaijan, Turkey and other interested foreign geopolitical forces. In the event that you place both your military-political resources and your economic security at the whim of the Armenian-hating state, it means that you also hand over your economic independence to your master.
Therefore, the 2026 elections are ontological for the state," he says. He emphasizes that it is hard to imagine that this government can get "50+1" through elections in a legitimate way. There is no prerequisite for this. "We see what is happening in local government elections. This government is deprived of a sufficient electoral resource, this government is deprived, as the struggle against the Church shows, of a street, mass resource. In such a case, the only thing left for him is to try to make some kind of correction or breakthrough in the situation with the power factor, which they try, but, as we can see, it doesn't give much result either.
A purely administrative resource, not banditry, box stealing, murder, beatings and massacres, adds 8 to 10 percent at best. If we add 10 percent to today's 15-16 percent, and if we add to that the "fake" parties under the control of Nikol Pashinyan, the so-called independent parties, it is a bit difficult to imagine what needs to change in six months so that the maximum 25 percent force can have "50+1".
In the case of an administrative resource, surprises may await them, the administrative resource has the ability to "escape". Therefore, I think that the fate of these elections is in the hands of the opposition, how organized and prudent the opposition will be, how ambitious the opposition will be in the work of the practical field, will it want to take power. On the other hand, will he be able to go to the election in the best case with several "columns" instead of 10? In that case, I think they have quite serious chances to form a coalition government in the future. Today, both the opposition and the public must clearly understand that the high percentage of participation, "50+1", does not leave any chance for the government to reproduce itself.
In 2026, the resource and behavior of the opposition will be decisive, where the power's resource is in stagnation. He cannot increase his resource in any way. Summarizing, the first task of the opposition is to ensure a large participation of the population in these elections. And secondly, to act as large associations as possible, in order not to allow pollination of votes during the elections," concludes Vigen Hakobyan.
Lusine Arakelyan
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