The talks about the possibility of the social riot in Armenia are limited with the press conferences of politicians and with judgments, which either deny or accept the social riot. But the prerequisites of the “riot” are becoming for visible among the average citizens and in order to notice that there is no need to be a politician. The increase of the prices of food brings the people to the margin, after which comes the social riot. Moreover, the opinions, according to which this riot rises due to the revolutionary moods in the Arabic states, are mildly said exaggerated because in Armenia the social state really becomes unbearable. The government is not taking any concrete step to moderate the situation and on the one hand they are involved in appeasing the inter-governmental “bargains” and on the other hand are trying to deal with the issues of foreign politics. The government is not taking any steps to control the situation and tempering the discontent within the society at least for its own safety. The whole resource of the government is either spent on internal political or foreign policy matters by hoping that “this time we were saved again” principle. Seemingly the government should have at least formally taken certain steps to inspire the society with hope. But it’s enough to keep a track on the working schedule of prime minister Tigran Sargsyan and the TV programs that tell about his activities in order to get convinced that the government with his leadership even more deepens the possibility of a social riot. For example, yesterday Tigran Sargsyan read a lecture for the high-level army officers. This would be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad. Last week, he posted on his own blog. So tell his media service. The contents of the posting are not even that important because if we start to discuss that it will mean that we are serious about the “economic policy” of Armenia. It is very symbolic that Sargsyan has started to be presented in a virtual space. It is so much harder to imagine a better prime minister in “Virtual Armenia.” Last week, Boris Nemtsov has very appropriately characterized the president of Russia Dmitry Medvedev by saying that the latter is not a president but a blogger. This evaluation totally fits with Tigran Sargsyan. In Armenia we have a situation where the government doesn’t quite well control the current difficult situation and it is not even well elucidated about the societal moods. And the fact that the moods of the society have not concretized yet and haven’t turned into action is a matter of time and technical matters as the experience shows. And after this the archaism of the government, by which they are discussing the reception of the ballots of the voters in one and a half years is merely astounding. It is very hard to find a different and better index to show how segregated the government is from the actual life and the society.
