"Could Armenia Be The Next Ukraine?" Topic
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| Tango01 | 02 Jul 2015 12:34 p.m. PST |
"When Konstantin Kosachyov, the head of the Russian Federation Council's International Relations Committee, said the protests in Armenia against a 16.7 percent power price hike follow a color revolution scenario sponsored by Western powers, many commentators rushed to compare the crisis in Yerevan with the 2014 protests in Kyiv that toppled the pro-Russian president, Victor Yanukovych. However, the street protests in Armenia have more to do with the overall economic situation in the country than with proxy clashes between foreign countries. Although the main power supplier, the Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA) company, 100 percent-controlled by the Russian state-owned energy giant Inter RAO United Energy Systems, is behind the proposal for a steep power price hike, Armenian activists reject the notion that the protests are anti-Russian. What they have demanded is a halt of widespread corrupt practices in the power sector, which ultimately are the real reason why prices have to go up…"
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| Bangorstu | 02 Jul 2015 12:47 p.m. PST |
Russians make up 0.5% of the population and the terrain is mountainous. So no excuse for Russia to intervene and no prayer of winning a war… |
| Jcfrog | 02 Jul 2015 3:07 p.m. PST |
On May 9th Vladimir and their president seemed pretty chumy. |
| tuscaloosa | 02 Jul 2015 5:24 p.m. PST |
Armenia isn't a country, it's a family-owned business. |
| Jcfrog | 03 Jul 2015 1:56 a.m. PST |
Most of the Caucasus is… Tradition. Mind me it is a closed up version of the ruling caste that functions elsewhere, all too often. |
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