“Reforms” in the government system of Armenia have quite an interesting logic, which may be interpreted as being deprived of any logic. It mainly concerns the dismissals, arrests, proceedings instituted against high-ranking officials. The most recent case is the arrest and proceedings instituted against the Chief of Road Police Margar Ohanyan. Moreover, the whole government preaching machine is filled with “disclosures” about abuses exercised by Ohanyan, as well as with confessions by police inspectors etc. The thing is not that Ohanyan may not have any connection with the abuses, or moreover what is presented may as well completely correspond to reality. Although, mildly said, it is difficult to imagine that Ohanyan could pocket 500,000 USD every year from the state budget stipulated for Police car wash (as presented in the media), without providing shares according to respective hierarchy. Especially, taking into account that Armenian government pyramid is built by the reverse principle. In this case, however, the issue is not what Ohanyan did. During whole this period such arrests took place in police system, group attacks were exercised on wealthy people’s villas. All this testifies to the fact that the Police do not exercise their liabilities properly. The Police Chief has turned into a real show man threatening from TV screen anybody who dares to “hurt” a policeman. I wonder whether it has ever occurred to the highest government and Serzh Sargsyan in particular, that if the police system is in such a scandalous situation, the Police Chief is to blame as well (taking into account the presumption of innocence)?. They would hardly think of that. If they did it would be possible to find some logic in dismissal of officials. The same concerns other spheres, where the government demonstratively “establishes justice” on selective bases. The best poof is advocating against the former officials. By the way these arrests are much like what takes place in criminal world, when somebody takes the blame on himself for a respective compensation. That is to say the principle “when you win, the sate wins as well” works.
