Prof Atanesyan: Armenia is a failed state

Head of the Department of Applied Sociology at Yerevan State University, PhD Candidate of Political Sciences, Professor Artur Atanesyan described the current situation in Armenia during a conversation with the Armenian edition of "168 Zham", Caliber.Az reports.

"It is very bad that we still don't know what kind of state we want, which means that we are a failed state. Having failed the idea of a state, we should start forming thoughts about statehood from scratch because so far we have had books about statehood, but the authors of these books did not believe in what they wrote," he said.

"I tell my students that Shakespeare's famous phrase 'Life is a stage, people are actors' should not be taken literally. Life is not a theatre, we are not actors, our soldier died in real life, on the battlefield, and he is no more, and this is not the end of the play, this is the end of life. So I say: come down, touch the soil, think in real categories, try to plant and grow something. This is what Azerbaijan is doing in Karabakh. We say we will regain Karabakh, but Azerbaijan is actually building airports on the ground.

We are not managing everything even within ourselves. It's a failure, so let's now figure out what's going to happen to us. They are indoctrinating the people that you are strong and proud, but we are being governed from elsewhere. Yes, there is a future, it is the possibility of being 100 per cent controlled by others, from outside. Remarkably, it is not we who decide who will rule, it is up to others. Figuratively speaking, we don't decide who will rule us, just like a woman who sleeps with others for money," said Artur Atanesyan.