Friday, April 27 2018 12:04

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.