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The scant Western media coverage of events in Armenia has tended to fixate on finding some sort of Russia angle. Yet among Armenian citizens, regardless of political stripe, Russian regional hegemony is widely accepted as an enduring, inevitable, and not entirely undesirable state of affairs. It is perhaps for this reason that the perennial conspiracies pertaining to “colour revolutions” funded by George Soros and “the West” were barely even heard with respect to events in Armenia. In this regard, Nikol Pashinyan’s insistence that he is neither pro-Russian nor pro-Western, but pro-Armenian, is remarkably consistent with views expressed by the Sargsyan regime and its predecessors.
full: http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/yerevan-spring-a-new-day-for-armenian-democracy/
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