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Power is not just power in Armenia: this is vanity, property, and business. President of the Helsinki Committee of Armenia, Avetik Ishkhanyan explains the dependence on the authorities precisely by this circumstance. “Imagine if suddenly, by some miracle, the government leave after the elections. It seems impossible for them, they cannot imagine that they may lose this power by voting, throwing a paper,” Ishkhanyan says.

In the context of the impossibility of changing the government as a result of the elections, according to Ishkhanyan, today there are several ways out. “Either resign and remain subordinate, or emigrate, which is widespread today, or rebel, though all previous attempts were doomed to failure. In addition, all these options indicate the failure of the state in the end,” the chairman of the committee notes.

As for today's opposition, according to Avetik Ishkhanyan, it is manageable. Everything, even the most insignificant issues in Armenia are being resolved at the presidential residence. The details of the conversation in the program “Paradigm”.