Yerevan State University must be protected from any political  influence - lecturer 

ArmInfo.  What happened yesterday in the conference room of the Academic Council of Yerevan State University is not a mistake, not a misunderstanding, but an outright disgrace. This is what Armen Avetisyan, a lecturer at the university, wrote on his Facebook page.

According to him, holding a congress of the Tavush Fellowship Union  in the conference room of the YSU Academic Council is unprecedented,  causes deep concern and is unacceptable. The YSU Academic Council is  the highest scientific and educational body, the conference room of  which serves exclusively for educational, scientific and educational  purposes.

Using this hall for holding meetings of any regional or public  organization, especially if it has absolutely nothing to do with the  university's agenda, undermines the seriousness of the university's  academic environment.

Meetings of fellow countrymen, according to Avetisyan, can have their  role and significance, but they should take place away from the  university; YSU is not a meeting place for fellow countrymen's unions  and other influential groups. "Such a phenomenon can create a  dangerous precedent, turning the university into a meeting place for  various interest groups (more than a hundred fellow countrymen's  unions are registered in Armenia). The question arises: why and under  what conditions was this hall provided, and were the internal legal  acts of the university violated. The acting rector of YSU must give a  clear answer to both the students of the university and the public:  who initiated this, who sanctioned it and on what basis? There has  been a victory of provincialism over science, education and academic  dignity. YSU must be protected from the influence of political, party  and fellow countrymen's groups," the university teacher notes.

He points to the fact that Yerevan State University has never found  itself in such a situation in its 106-year history. "The accidental  appearance of Yuri Ambaryan, Hakob Manandyan, Radik Martirosyan, Aram  Simonyan and other rectors of YSU in the university's management  allowed the alma mater to be reduced to the level of a provincial  club. This is not a managerial or organizational mistake, but a  declaration of moral bankruptcy in which the YSU rector himself is  suffocating, having become, in fact, a weak-willed accomplice to the  moral decline of Nikolov's regime. And weakness of will in the  university environment is a crime," Avetsan emphasized, adding that  the only thing left for the rector to do, about whom the university  students half-jokingly, half-seriously say: "Ovo came to prove that  anyone can be the rector of YSU," is to publicly apologize to the  university students," the university teacher believes.