I'm now listening to different ideas from Armenia. In fact they are all russian-speaking so I accept the difference they can have with reality.
Therefore, some of the phrases are extremely nice for me. For example, about the peaceful nature of the armenian people and the fact that no one wants to make disorder in the country even after the opposition leader called for a general strike and blocking of airports. Lots of different journalists and politicians are trying to underline that armenian protests do not have anything in common with ukrainian events 4 years ago.
So... look at the girl above, let's realize that she was on the Maidan after clearing it from protesting students with the excuse of Christmas tree ... and let's realize that the girl could not stand in the circle of paramilitary groups trained by the West to get rid of the President and Government :)
Yes - it was still peaceful family-style!!! measures to influence the abuse of power by the authorities.
Although in general I am quite far from many knowledge about Armenia. I usually make my conclusions on the basis of very generalized data, often statistical, often logical (as, for example, that any leader of Armenia is doomed to cooperate with Moscow).
But here I can note the following.
President as a leader of executive power
We in Ukraine have opinions that the position of the president can be abolished and the head of the executive branch should be the prime minister elected by the parliament.
My main objection is the violation of the balance of power branches, when the executive power will in fact be subordinated to the legislative one. But Armenia in this case demonstrates an interesting case - people can not directly elect the desired head of the executive power, but they can not do this through the parliament if the parliament does not feel itself to be only a representative body that will not be re-elected if it does not take into account wishes of their constituents.
Parliament role in case of huge protests
This is precisely the role of parliament in society. Why am I looking over the whole story even though I know that Armenia will continue to vote for all the papers of the Kremlin at the UN meetings? And why am I on the side of the protesters?
Because democracy is a process. And democracy should be learned in the same way as learning to walk and talk for a child. It does not happen in a day. And an integral part of democracy is, for example, a regular change of power, and it's only the first time that Armenians are intending to do so.
Parliament at this moment is the most possible authority that is legitimate and which can ensure the transfer of power by peaceful means.
So at the moment, these people who sit in the Armenian parliament, on someone's hint through their foreign affairs minister (who is in Moscow right now) or on their own understanding, have not realized their role as a transfer of power in this story. Therefore, the entire Nagorno-Karabakh is strategically at stake.
Of course, I can not see through other people's heads, but this is the realization that while "they are in power" and crouch according to the crowd - is a demonstration of weakness, it seems to me from afar. This is a typical consultation from the Kremlin, thanks to which Yanukovych's crew now living in Moscow and the interpol is looking for them. But they can not hear other advice from their "reliable ally", because a harsh supression of any protest is the only way Kremlin can play. And we will observe, what's next :)