View from Moscow: statement about Vyacheslav Volodin`s language-gift to all "Russian friends"

ArmInfo. The proposal of Speaker  of State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin on giving official status to Russian  language  in Armenia indicates that the fourth person in Russia  either does not own the history of the issue, or shows unreasonable  ground for a high-ranking official, such an opinion was expressed to  ArmInfo Russian analyst Sergei Markedonov.

On July 17, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin proposed to  officially establish Russian language in Armenia for the  "rights" of  Armenian drivers. Ara Babloyan, speaker of Armenian Parliament,  raised the issue of the need to recognize national driving licenses  in Russia.

Such  initiatives were already voiced by Dmitriy Kiselev, there were  other" ideas "of this kind, which inevitably provoked rejection in  Armenian society, while the silence of Armenian politicians is  clearly not the case when silence is equal. Anyone who is even  slightly in the subject it was clear that the idea would not work,  but would provoke bitterness from scratch, "he said.

According to the analyst, along with background factors in the form  of delivery of Russian weapons to Baku, tragic incidents in Karabakh,  Volodin made such a gift to all "friends of Russia" against which the  State Department can simply go on vacation. In his opinion, Volodin's  initiative does not solve any problems in the Armenian-Russian  relations, does not strengthen faith in Moscow, Russia's presence in  the Caucasus and Karabakh does not strengthen.

Meanwhile, the importance of the National Assembly of Armenia in  terms of relations with Russia with the transition to a parliamentary  system of government -field where the speaker of Russian Duma should  have worked. For example, offering young Armenians a program in  Russian with  good rmployment both in Russia and in Armenia, with  prospects for growth and the future. However, "soft power" in Russia  is still beyond the language and Soviet nostalgia does not go.  Especially in Armenia with its 98% Armenian population, "Markedonov  said.

The law "On Amendments to the Federal Law on Road Safety and the Code  of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses" came into force  on June 1. Already on July 14, State Duma passed a law authorizing  citizens of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Belarus, as well as other  countries where Russian is official language, to work as drivers at  the territory of  Russia on the basis of national driving permits. As  a result of work in Russia from EEU countries, only migrant drivers  from Armenia lost their jobs.