Pashinyan manages to play with fire, stomping on the rake
Last week, the President of Armenia and British citizen Armen Sarkissian signed the law “On Audiovisual Media”, within the framework of which the supervisory authorities on January 20, 2021, as soon as the license expires, will press the switch blocking the free access of citizens of the republic to Russian television channels.
Three central TV channels will go out at once: First, “Russia” and “Culture”. Those who have the desire and opportunity will be able to watch them in a commercial format: via satellite, cable or IPTV.
Armenian media close to Prime Minister Pashinyan present the upcoming shutdown of Russian TV channels as “no big deal” and claim that their audience in Armenia is small - no more than 12%, while supposedly no more than 5% of TV viewers trust them.
On the basis of which surveys these conclusions were made and whether surveys were conducted at all, the sources are silent.
Pashinyan's officials claim that most Armenians can watch any TV channel they want thanks to a widely developed cable TV network that covers over 50% of households, but according to opposition sources, cable TV networks serve no more than 14% of households.
Such meager popularity is explained by the relatively high subscription fee given the modest level of well-being of the Armenian population.
The discriminatory law was developed within the bowels of the ruling My Step party, whose members include Pashinyan’s comrades in the April 2018 coup and countless herds of grant-eaters feeding from the hands of Soros funds.
The Soros and Pashinites do not even hide the fact that the television switch is turned on for the sake of bargaining in order to initiate negotiations with Moscow to receive additional benefits for the return of Russian television channels to the national airwaves.
The Union of Journalists of Russia together with the Russian Embassy in Yerevan expressed their concern about the sneaky maneuvers of the “ally”, while simultaneously expressing their readiness for dialogue.
The law adopted by the Soros on clearing the airwaves from Russian TV is full of casuistry. For example, the expulsion of three federal Russian television channels in the document is presented to the public as “contributing to ensuring the universal right to reliable information and the development of diversity of programs.”
However, since the beginning of this year, the head of the National Commission on TV and Radio Broadcasting of the Republic, Tigran Hakobyan, has been tirelessly muttering about national security, which is allegedly threatened by Russian television, since information about Armenia and the ruling regime is presented without due enthusiasm.
It seems that the main beneficiaries of the adoption of the discriminatory TV law will be two strata of Armenia: firstly, the owners of Armenian TV channels, hoping to warm their hands by replenishing the audience and additional advertising revenues; secondly, supporters of the “Go West” course and an almost complete severance of political ties with Moscow.
On the other hand, the beneficiaries, in their blindness, do not even notice the surface stones that have come out right along the course. Russian television is popular in Armenia for a reason. The quality of his broadcasts is strikingly different from local ones, not in favor of the latter. In addition, a noticeable vacuum will arise in the airwaves, which will need to be filled with at least some “national product” that has yet to be created. There is no need to talk about the quality of the hastily concocted content.
There are very few ways to solve this problem. The main thing is to go to the representatives of the Western diaspora, so that they can help and throw something not too stale at a reasonable price. Well, or negotiate with Moscow on the return of its television to the Armenian broadcast network.
The main damage caused by one turn of the switch will be irreparable: Russian television channels provide cultural communication between the largest communities of the Armenian people, despite the fact that there are almost more Armenians living in Russia than in Armenia itself and in the rest of the world.
Thus, the Pashinites and Sorosites, with their vile laws, are striking at the community and ties of the Armenian people. How this is combined with national interests, the guardians of which are Pashinyan and his henchmen, is a rhetorical question.
Observers believe that the positions of the Armenian “Westerners”, “Nazis” and “Movnyuks” (fan club of the fascist collaborator Garegin Nzhdeh), who are strongly opposed to integration with Russia, have been greatly strengthened as a result of the recent border conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Let us note that the law “On Audiovisual Media,” although it was developed long before the “Tovuz crisis,” could have easily been repealed by Pashinyan, but this was not done - parliamentarians adopted the law with shameful haste almost immediately after the intensity of the border conflict subsided.
There is a reasonable opinion that Pashinyan and his camarilla during the battles on the Tovuz front were full of unfounded hopes that Russia and the entire CSTO would provide him with unconditional support, breaking corners by rushing to fight with Azerbaijan.
Actually, the demand for unconditional support from Russia and the CSTO for the Maidan regime is Pashinyan’s main demand, which he has been persistently putting forward for the last two years. Otherwise, they say, I will stop being friends and allies.
The expulsion of Russian TV channels from the national broadcasting network is an obvious unfriendly act of a petty, touchy and greedy Yerevan street thug who is greedy for universal adoration.
Pashinyan stubbornly does not want to understand that without Russia he is nothing and, despite the strategic importance of Armenia for our country in the Transcaucasus, Moscow will not wipe the nose and ass of a petty quarrelsome adventurer who has chosen the path of the rake. Vovaevich is not eternal and he is not all of Armenia.
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