Saturday, September 30 2017 15:05

ArmInfo. Anti-Russian and  anti-eurasian sentiments in Armenia are of an ordered character,  according to monitoring conducted by the club "Glas Naroda" on the  topic "Monitoring: Armenia's Participation in the EEU in the Context  of Covering Armenian Digital Media".

As the member of the club Arman Gukasyan told Arminfo, expert of the club, noted that 6 Armenian digital  mass media were monitored, who most actively covered anti-Eurasian  and anti-Russian positions of various public and political figures.  "The monitoring we conducted was aimed at studying the content of  some information resources for the months of June and September, when  the issue of the need for Armenia's withdrawal from the EEU was  actively discussed." It can be noted that during this period, the  supply of negative information about Russian- Armenian relations,  Armenia's participation in the EEU and the CSTO, these information  flows in places contained misinformation, and also one-sidedness.  Over the past three months, the resources we studied did not  illuminate at least one positive new tee on the participation of  Armenia in the EEU, indicating customized anti-Russian activities of  these media," said Ghukasyan.

At the same time, he stressed that many pro-Western information  websites of Armenia have foreign funding, whose goal is to discredit  the Eurasian course of Armenia and Russian-Armenian relations. "The  pro-Western Armenian sites present only the views and comments of the  EU supporters to the target audience and do not provide a platform  for supporters of Eurasian integration, thus these sites are the  bearers of one-sided and biased information, In addition, the  overwhelming majority of negative information with elements of  disinformation comes from Russia, the CSTO The information resources  link all the problems of Armenia with the Unified Energy System and  Russia and keep silent about the advantages of the country joining  this integration bloc. Substitution of meanings, when the EEU as an  economic union is presented to the public as a structure that should  resolve the Karabakh conflict, and its unresolved, is allegedly the  result of a lack of desire among the EEU member countries. Armenia's  benefits in the EEU are intentionally ignored: export growth for the  last 5 months (21 %), growth in trade turnover (12.8%), real  expectations of economic growth before the end of the year (from 2.5  to 3.4%)," said the member of the club "Glas Naroda".   

At the same time, Ghukasyan stated that nothing is said about the  real geopolitical and socio-economic consequences in the event of  Armenia withdrawing from the union. In his words, given the fact that  Russia is Armenia's most important strategic ally, as well as the  main trade and economic partner, and the Armenian economy is closely  intertwined with Russia, any radical reversals in the republic's  foreign policy can create serious problems not only in the issue of  economic stability, but also in matters of security in the region.

He also said that the club is preparing a list of those social and  political figures who recently actively come up with ideas about the  need for Armenia to withdraw from the EEU and do it on order from the  outside.  The list, according to Ghukasyan, will be announced  shortly, along with evidence and facts about the customized  activities of these individuals.

Earlier, the parliamentary bloc "Elk" initiated the process of  Armenia's withdrawal from the EEU.  Meanwhile, Vice Speaker of the  Armenian Parliament Eduard Sharmazanov stressed that Armenia does not  intend to leave the EEU.