Armenia is entering a serious medium-term crisis - expert 

ArmInfo.Regardless of the election outcome, Armenia is entering a serious medium-term crisis. Vahe Hovhannisyan, a member of the Alternative Projects group, writes about this in his article.

According to him, the Armenian people are being invited into this  crisis, and it seems they are accepting this invitation.

"The elections, which were supposed to be purely domestic, something  our society didn't fully understand, were turned into international  elections with the authorities' light hand. Amid tensions between the  four sides, the growing likelihood of a new war in Iran, and other  enormous risks, we needed internal solidarity and restraint, but the  authorities destroyed this opportunity with their aggressive  behavior. As a result, we have a divided, hypertoxic society. The  world is entering a phase of serious economic crisis-rising energy  prices, significant global shortages, and rising fertilizer prices;  serious problems are expected everywhere.

Under these circumstances, we find ourselves facing an international  choice we shouldn't have made-a choice between the EAEU and the EU.  Our economy benefits enormously from the EAEU's opportunities.  As a  Christian nation with a vast cultural heritage and a large Western  diaspora, we must, of course, strive for European standards and the  institutional European model. We have an important legacy for this,  in the form of membership in the EAEU and the CEPA. "All that  remained was to shape a state-oriented mindset and build on this  legacy," the political scientist noted.

He added that as a result of these steps by the authorities, Armenian  society is firmly moving toward its own crisis.

"We must restore internal solidarity and extricate Armenia from  international confrontation. This will be very difficult. A toxic  internal atmosphere is usually the biggest obstacle to any positive  development. How will we get out of this? Serious people must be  present in all camps to stop the internal toxicity and empty  pre-election talk. We have a real region, a real state, real and  serious risks, and real opportunities to avoid them. And what are we  doing? We've already lost Artsakh in all this hype. Now, the same  monstrous turmoil, the prospect of which frightens all normal people,  must spur them to action," the political scientist noted.