We have never hesitated to turn critical thinking into a working approach that allows us to correctly align our goals.<\/p>\n
It is unnecessary to recall the extremely serious challenges we face \u2014 as a morally exhausted, divided society that has lost its national identity, and as a state that has lost its military-strategic and geopolitical weight. Particularly in the post-war period, the Armenian people and Armenia have rightfully not refrained from labeling the current authorities\u2019 adopted anti-national, adventurous, anti-state political course and methods, and their systematic and hostile propaganda aimed at sowing and spreading internal hatred, with objective and negative characteristics. There is no need for additional humiliating labels. Let us simply note the serious political and security challenges left to us as a legacy, which we are obliged to overcome in the near future.<\/p>\n
From a strategic perspective, after the loss of Artsakh, the Republic of Armenia has been deprived of strategic depth. Armenia\u2019s geographical territory \u2014 from the northeast and southeast \u2014 is under constant threat of occupation, and the country\u2019s largest water basin lies in a risk zone. This means that Armenia lacks security viability, and the worst part is that the current authorities have no foundational approach, principle, or vision to restore the state\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity and ensure its security.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, the time for political diagnoses, analyses, and various assessments has passed. The issue now is to formulate the national goal of preventing Armenia\u2019s neo-colonization in a clear and rational way and make it accessible to a wide public. Achieving this requires a precise political toolkit, appropriate technologies, skills to work in harmony with like-minded partners, and most importantly, young patriots with a national vision, and elder colleagues who possess rational experience and political courage to channel the ideological \u201cmadness\u201d of the youth into productive action.<\/p>\n
Over the past five years, Genesis Armenia has operated exactly according to this logic and continues to pursue its defined mission, clearly outlined in its program and charter, with full responsibility. We are also a scientific-analytical think tank, which, according to average Armenian expectations, would be expected to publish several articles and books annually, organize seminars, and in short, fulfill all the client\u2019s wishes. We have not been guided by this logic, and I believe this is one of the secrets of our success, although I admit that we have never lacked in-depth analyses, research, seminars, statements, training courses, and publications \u2014 we have dozens of them.<\/p>\n
The secret of our national, Armenia-centered, professional, independent, precise, and courageous activity \u2014 of our sharp and flawless speech, national-state thinking \u2014 lies in making sovereign decisions, implementing them, and being independent of anyone or any force. The meaning of Genesis Armenia\u2019s mission should be sought precisely here, and the measure of its commitment and responsibility to distinguish itself from similar institutions should be understood in this very context.<\/p>\n
Before our eyes, a greatest value was destroyed \u2014 Artsakh \u2014 which, beyond territory, historical-political memory, and cultural monuments, is an essence; it has been and will continue to remain one of the main components of national identity, at least for my generation. We all know the reasons for our defeat in the war. We also know the geopolitical consensus that Armenia should not have strategic ambitions in this region, and in this context, the international silence or acquiescence to the longevity of the current authorities is understandable, regardless of the fact that over the past five years Armenia has become a corrupt and authoritarian country by all political-science standards.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, we will continue our work with strength of spirit, sober thought, and tireless dedication. We were among the first who, after the depopulation of Artsakh, began to develop \u2014 and still continue to refine \u2014 a strategy and roadmap for the collective return to Artsakh, based on international experience, solid knowledge, and flexible thinking, without at all claiming the title of having the final word of truth. On the contrary, together with all healthy national forces in Armenia and the Diaspora, traditional parties, the offices of the Armenian Cause, and the relevant experienced and professional commission formed by the decision of the Artsakh government, we continue intensive discussions and meetings to make that strategically \u2014 or rather conceptually \u2014 important dossier unassailable, so that, under favorable geopolitical conditions, it can undoubtedly be taken out of the drawers and put into practice.<\/p>\n
However, before making toasts about entering a higher weight category in the region, it is an imperative necessity to purposefully consolidate Armenian thought, will, potential, and organizational and network capacities; to emphasize the value foundations of a collective goal; and to show readiness to assume responsibility. Only in this way will it be possible to rid ourselves of the stigma of shame; only thus will we be able to see our compatriots who are imprisoned in Yerevan and Baku free \u2014 those whom, through the coordinated work of a hostile tandem and their immoral obsession with keeping one another in power, they try to humiliate: our military-political and national-church figures who have sacrificed their lives for Armenian identity and continuity \u2014 from Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan to Davit Ishkhanyan and Ruben Vardanyan, from Archbishop Mikayel Ajapahyan to Levon Mnatsakanyan and the former presidents of Artsakh.<\/p>\n
To have a place and role in the political future of the Armenian people, a tightening of the muscles of mind and spirit is necessary, along with serious propaganda work in which broad layers of our compatriots must be involved. That is why, working day and night, we supported our friends who share our ideological, political, and informational goals to create ABC Media, which in its 2.5 years of activity managed to secure a dignified and professional place in the media field \u2014 a bold platform with its own character and identity, a bearer and promoter of national and universal values. It has produced ideas and voiced political \u2014 sharp yet reasoned and responsible \u2014 discourse, whose aim is to rationally and calculatedly overcome post-war traumas, straighten the broken spine, and realize the vision of having a strong, secure, and developed country.<\/p>\n
Armenia must rid itself of the collaborationist \u2014 or anti-national, anti-state \u2014 puppet authorities, and this process must be shaped by the idea and mechanisms of collective leadership. There is no individual or political current, force, or party in Armenia that can defeat the machinery of evil and wickedness in power on its own. Power should not merely be changed; rather, this miserable group that is burying Armenia\u2019s present and future must be completely stripped of power \u2014 and not only by legal votes at polling stations, but also through street resistance and legitimate pressure, later being subjected to political, moral, and judicial accountability. Only in this way will it be possible to close the page of defeat and national shame and move forward.<\/p>\n
For these and dozens of other reasons, I personally made an extremely responsible \u2014 I admit, mature and logical \u2014 decision: to engage in the upcoming political and electoral processes with the full scope and capacity of my intellectual, organizational, and leadership resources, fully aware of the reality that going to elections against the current authorities means a predetermined defeat. Nevertheless, the vision of having a truly democratic country implies forming, through elections, a government that enjoys public trust, which by a legal and legitimate public vote will be able to halt the accelerating machine of Armenia\u2019s existential decline and, with new and modern approaches, shape the security, economic, technological, and civilizational future of the Armenian state.<\/p>\n
To achieve this goal, we must fight for every voter, go door to door, explain and convince our compatriots and citizens that having a good village is not enough \u2014 to have a strong community, you must strengthen your state; that asphalt and street lighting do not yet guarantee border security and a prosperous life; that we are one nation regardless of our political views; that our salvation is in our own hands; and that success comes to those nations that can, through smart solutions, become self-sufficient rather than beggars dependent on the whimsical decisions of this or that power.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, since last September we have launched intensive consultations and negotiations, refining and grouping our like\u2011minded people and partners who work for Armenians and Armenia. We may differ in wording and tactical issues \u2014 one may believe that we should not walk the path with this particular color of the opposition palette, another may think that if we all agree to remove the power of evil, then we should work without obstructing one another. This is a tactic that can transform during political processes, and I urge our compatriots not to show prejudice and not to adopt this vicious practice of destroying one another, because it benefits only Armenia\u2019s anti-national authorities, with their propaganda machine and political satellites.<\/p>\n
The upcoming election is not a routine, regular, ordinary political event; it is a question of the Armenian state\u2019s \u2014 and in the long term, the continuity or very existence of the Armenian ethnic element\u2019s \u2014 survival.<\/p>\n
Who will contribute to the \u201creproduction\u201d of the current authorities? It will be the one who disrupts cooperation and weakens the core of the electorate. Nikol Pashinyan\u2019s dictatorship will be reproduced if no force or forces with real political teeth stand up to it. They must offer voters a genuine alternative, not merely an impression.<\/p>\n
Those who know us, our path, and our biography of never slipping into anyone\u2019s pocket know well that at every stage of political and ideological struggle we did not yield to any temptation. We continued our work confidently and modestly, guarding our principles like the apple of our eye and remaining unwavering in our commitment not to deviate even a fraction from our national and state\u2011building values. We shared our experience, knowledge, and skills; we did not turn the idea of stripping power into an end in itself; we stayed in the streets, endured the repression of this authoritarian system, and did not shout, fully understanding that the fight against a nation\u2011destroying machine requires strong nerves, mind, heart, soul, and perseverance\u2026 We worked with our compatriots, tried to bring about an ideological awakening \u2014 to think and act for the sake of Armenians and Armenia\u2026 We also voiced constructive criticism, but so delicately and cautiously that we would not become an opposition within the opposition and would not endanger the work begun by our friends and partners.<\/p>\n
We have our programs for the future. By the way, I have borrowed the word \u201cfuture\u201d (galiq, literally \u201cwhat is to come\u201d) from the prisoner of conscience, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, whose presence we honor and carry with dignity in all our actions, in mind and in spirit. It was precisely the Holy Father who replaced the desecrated word apaga (future) with galiq. Our programs for what is to come stem from our national goals.<\/p>\n
Armenia is not merely in a political crisis, but in a civilizational and statehood crisis. The current political system cannot ensure the reproduction of the state. What is needed is a renewed political beginning \u2014 with new thinking, a fresh political elite, and a new institutional logic. Genesis Armenia does not position itself as a structure that renders a \u201cbear\u2019s service\u201d to a dysfunctional political system; rather, we are advocates of a project of political renewal. We do not fall into the trap set by the authorities, nor do we swim in the cynical and self\u2011serving discourse of past versus present. Instead, we propose technocratic, rational thinking; the primacy of national and state interests; diplomatic flexibility, but also a solid value foundation. This is less a classic \u201cright\u2013left\u201d division and more the application of a model of state\u2011builders vs. system\u2011destroyers.<\/p>\n
Therefore, in the context of the upcoming elections, we are obliged to present to our society our systematic approaches to Armenia\u2019s future: a comprehensive revision of the security system \u2014 not only the armed forces, but also the restoration of diplomatic, economic, informational, and institutional security; in foreign relations \u2014 neither vertical subordination nor adventurism, but pragmatic multi\u2011vector policy; effective governance of state institutions; formation of a professional state apparatus; strengthening mechanisms of political accountability; economic development based on productivity rather than distributive promises; human capital \u2014 education, science, technology; and a social state achieved not through charity, but through dignified work. This discourse is more social-democratic than a destructive neoliberal and populist approach.<\/p>\n
And what does the current system propose? The so\u2011called \u201cera of peace,\u201d in which Armenia adapts itself to the flow of deceptive and fragile international legitimacy and processes \u2014 an Armenia whose security is conditioned by overvalued external arrangements and weak internal institutions. We say: peace has no alternative if it is comprehensive, just, and lasting. We say: peace cannot replace state subjectivity. Armenia is not an adapting unit, a reactive state, but an initiating and reorganizing state \u2014 one that renounces not its national identity, but the vicious phenomena of the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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