The newly formed “Civil Intolerance” movement is one of a kind among the pro-government and oppositionist parties of Armenia. The political activists gathered in this party often extremely differ in their world views, geopolitical views, their past social/political career, etc. It was pretty hard to imagine that rather well-known pro-Western political activist Alexander Arzumanyan, extremist pro-Russian political activist Garnik Markaryan, former commander of the Karabagh defense army Arkadi Karapetyan and former political prisoner Vartan Harutyunyan and others would form a part of this movement. According to sources that are optimistic, the roots of this union, as well as the traces of the “Anti-Criminal Movement” must be looked for in Moscow. According to our sources, recently citizens of Yerevan have been seeing well-known activist Ashot Manucharyan and former Armenian foreign affairs minister Alexander Arzumanyan, who is said to pay frequent visits to Moscow in Yerevan a lot. Sources also say that Arzumanyan has taken advantage of his contacts with some right-wing parties of Russia and has established ties with the one of the high-ranking officials of the Russian authorities. This is enough proof to come to the conclusion that Russia has decided to have a wide spectrum of political activists on the threshold of the elections in Armenia, starting from nationalists and ending with liberalists.
