in Armenia, as well as the alienation of ordinary citizens
from their own country's government, have led to widespread apathy and despair.
People, who could develop Armenia, are leaving the country for Russia, Europe,
USA, Ukraine, Canada and Australia. The current emigration rate of 4–5% of the
whole population annually is the highest in the world and is simply disastrous.
During the 25 years of Armenia's independence, more than 2 million people left
the country, almost the same number of people who remain there today. Moreover,
half of those emigrants left Armenia in the last 8 years, during Serzh Sargsyan’s
presidency.

The
government, through sophisticated and unlawful practices, has left the country’s
citizens bare-handed in face of a mighty criminal gang that has seized power in
Armenia. The people cannot affect this situation in any way and their participation
in theelections serves as a smokescreen for the ruling clan to demonstrate
formal conformity with the democratic standards imposed in Armenia by the West
after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It is difficult to find another country
in the world, where the ruling party has so many members with mafia-style
nicknames

On February
2013 the West turned a blind eye to the reproduction of Serzh Sargsyan’s power
through massive electoral fraud, as Sargsyan had promised to sign the
Association Agreement with the EU. But the previous four years of
successful negotiation process with the EU was not a classic episode of the Eastern
Partnership but rather a vivid example of eastern cunning aimed at getting
support from the West during upcoming presidential elections.

The post-election
protest campaign, organized by Raffi K. Hovannisian, who was actually elected
as a president by absolute majority,