Tigran Atanesyan: Armenia's main enemy is inside it

Armenia often attempts to write off all the existing problems in the country on Azerbaijan, taking advantage of the unsettled Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. However, not everyone has this view. In particular, a few days ago constitutional law expert Tigran Atanesyan, commenting on the reform of the fundamental law, which is now underway in the Republic, expressed the opinion that the country's main enemy is not outside of Armenia, but within it. It is, according to the lawyer, a semi-despotism, which is well-established in the country.

"Our security is not threatened by Azerbaijan, but our internal enemy, which forces our population to emigrate from Armenia and our businessmen to close their businesses. This is the main enemy. I do not think Azerbaijan is our main enemy," Aravot quotes Atanesyan as saying.

In an interview with a correspondent of Vestnik Kavkaza, Armenian MP from ANC Aram Manukyan said he does not fully share the view expressed by the lawyer. However, he acknowledged that many of today's problems of the Republic stem from the policy pursued by its government.

In turn, a member of the Public Chamber of Russia, Director of the Institute of Political Studies Sergey Markov, found Tigran Atanesyan's opinion quite reasonable. "Yes, I would agree with the fact that now, without a doubt, the internal danger, the internal threat, is more serious. There are conflicts within the elite, and there is an attempt to organize an Armenian Maidan, there is a very difficult economic situation. In fact, in some ways, you could even say that it is like a withering of the Armenian economy. And even in the context of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, one of the threats to Armenia is that Azerbaijan's economy is developing rapidly, and the economy of Armenia is in such a semi-depressed state," he noted.