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By Nazrin Gadimova

A member of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), Akop Akopyan was quite frank to advise media to leave the ruling party alone and to look back into the past when speaking about difficulties in the country.

The Armenian government could puzzle the society again with an absolutely rigorous logic, in fact terminating even a tiny hope to revive the tough situation.

Akopyan believes that Armenians’ ancestors lived a hundred times worse and still had many children.

Armenian officials' advise to people to look back before judging the current bad state of affairs in the country really evolved a public distress.

It testified that the authorities could not invent any other excuse acquitting this terrible situation in Armenia. However, that in fact mirrored the absence of a limit for human stupidity.

Media remark to such a foolish statement was witty enough, as they called the Armenian people to rejoice. If one remembers about how people lived in the Stone Age, then life in present-day Armenia is high off the hog, the journalists added

Armenia, which is experiencing terrible demographic problem of the past 40 years in its history, seems to have no way out of current situation. Although the country’s population fell below the level of 3 million (according to the Armenian Statistics Agency), the authorities regard any concerns for such trifles unreasonable.

Instead solving a problem with unemployment and creating decent conditions for living, the government turns a blind eye to the massive outflow of able-bodied citizens.

While the country’s public debt has increased dramatically, the authorities continue selling everything that remains under public ownership. The desperate state of Armenia has many reasons, but the fact is that it has turned out in economic isolation by force of its aggressive policy towards the neighbors. The country keeps under occupation 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory and has territorial and genocide claims to Turkey.

The "big problem" of this country began with the government, whose absolutely wrong policy led to these almost irreversible factors. As many international organizations state, the country suffers high level of corruption, while people are dissatisfied with the courts and forced to deal with corruption, bureaucracy and bribery.

At the same time, in his statement Akopyan has revealed Armenia’s main secret: Armenians have always lived poorly, and if to get at the heart of the matter, it will turn out that even during the age of dinosaurs they lived without gleam of hope (if only Armenians existed in this period).

It follows that the life of today's Armenians is simply of paradise as compared with these ancient horrors.

The local media reports that the ruling party's representatives made such ludicrous statements not for the first time and people have long been used to these illogical remarks.

The National Assembly of Armenia has ranked first in this hit parade of rubbish. It is not surprising, that Armenian writer and screen player Vahram Martirosyan said that he experienced ‘culture shock’ while looking at the faces of some members of the parliament.

Thus, according to the local media, MP Mger Sadrakyan from the ruling RPA called journalists a herd, while his counterpart Shushan Petrosyan threatened to tear head of the social network user for criticizing the Defense Ministry.

Given who are in power in Armenia, the internal and external situation in the country finds its logical explanation. The state and government officials continue to ignore the problems, getting satisfied with strange explanations of the unsteady situation. They believe that all of this is merely nothing -- just a little misunderstanding as compared with what their ancestors experienced.

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Nazrin Gadimova is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @NazrinGadimova

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