ArmInfo. The revolution in Armenia did not end with the resignation of Serzh Sargsyan and will certainly find its continuation to achieve its logical goal. The director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, professor Ruben Safrastyan expressed this opinion.
As a result of mass peaceful protests in Armenia, Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan resigned. On April 25, the talks broke off. Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan and leader of the protesters Nikol Pashinyan. On April 26, Pashinyan again offered to meet Karapetyan. The authorities call the demands of the opposition too high, and the protest leaders state that the revolution has not been completed as long as the RPA remains in power. Peaceful protests have been going on for two weeks now.
"Today we are all witnessing a change of the whole epoch, in some sense of epochal changes.In this light, in my opinion, the second and third stages of the Armenian velvet revolution are simply inevitable. The second will be the interim government established by revolutionaries. The third is the decision to hold early parliamentary elections. I think that all this is serious enough, "- said the professor.
Safrastyan also expressed his hope for avoiding upheavals at subsequent stages, as the protesters managed to do at the first stage. At the same time, according to his estimates, it is still impossible to predict the course and especially the results of the early elections.
"On the basis of even a superficial analysis of the recent speeches of Nikol Pashinyan, we can state that the Armenian revolution has a fairly serious leader, and in part, the forces of its supporters, I will say that they are internal rather than external.I have the impression that the force pushing Pashinyan forward - first of all, he himself and to some extent - his friends, whom we see, at any rate, at this stage, "the professor summed up.