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.