Tomorrow our strategic partner Russia will hold presidential elections, during which indeed the current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, will have victory. Not only Russian but also certain Armenian political circles will closely follow these elections. The essential part of the Armenian political circles – both opposition and government connect their future with Russia and with the “stability” in that country. The future of Armenia is forecast by the facial expression of the president of Russia or the meeting of an Armenian opposition representative with a key statesman of Russia. So all these forces tomorrow will hold their breaths awaiting the results of the Russian elections so that Vladimir Vladimirovich maximum quietly gets elected President of Russia for the coming 8 years at least. Or they consider Putin the Tsar for not only Russia but also Armenia. It’s OK if as a result of that Armenia may turn into Russia’s outpost or that the country may become the bridge-ground for Putin. The most important thing is that Putin is elected president without any problems. He will have more time to deal with Armenia and the inner-Armenia scenario of our pro-government and certain opposition officials will come true. In this there is only one hope-inspiring fact. Regardless of how inevitable Putin’s “election” is Putin is not going to be the president of the Russia of the past but the current Russia. The Russian society has evidently changed and revived from a ten-year passiveness and sleep. They are not going to tolerate what has been planned for Putin for years. Drawing comparisons between the processes of Russia and Armenia is not relevant because of several reasons. However, the processes taking place between the two countries to a certain extent match with chronological timeframe. In Russia the political and non-political radical changes were followed by the parliamentary elections of Russia of December of the previous year. Thus, all these developments have mingled the plans of Putin. With a slight time difference the same situation is currently in Armenia. About 9 months after the May parliamentary elections the presidential race will take place in Armenia. Unlike Russia, in Armenia at least several opposition forces are functioning, which have already announced the parliamentary elections as the launch of the presidential elections. Of course the future of many of these forces a lot depends of tomorrow’s “victory” of Putin. And the Armenian society has only got one thing to do – fight against the forces, which “await the return of Putin” to the President’s post.
