Musa Mikayelyan in his political analysis discusses the post-Soviet countries’ attitude towards the United States which, today already deprived of different mottos, is in the center of the attention.
Today it officially became clear that Barack Obama is the next president of the United States of America. Mikayelyan states that there would be no major difference for Armenia whether a Republican or a Democrat the next president of the States would be although the US stand would be a little different in case the president is also changed. Mikayelyan does not reject the fact that the States is not exempt of political fraudulences but he states it would be utopian for Armenia to have the same presidential election problems as the US faces.
According to the analyst’s view we have the chance to compare the two political discourses in the States and in Armenia which are cardinally different. If the US strives to make the election based on the public interests, in Armenia everything is done to conceal the course from the public eyes. This is the reason the US, although being one of the youngest countries in the world is among the most powerful ones, where the institutions and systems rule and not the individuals. Armenia strives to survive today however instead of running the country on the institutional level; political intrigues and dissimulation take the central stand in the country.
Mikayelyan concludes that “to reach to the US” slogan is up-to-date but should not be taken literally. This means following the US example of having a civic society on the interests of which the government of the country will be based on, where the institutions will run the country and the change of the individuals in the political systems will only slightly change the strategy to certain issues.
