Iskandaryan: Nemtsov had posed absolutely no threat to Russian authorities
02.03.2015,
15:52
Alexander Iskandaryan, a political analyst and the head of the Caucasus Institute, finds it difficult to point out persons or organizations that might benefit from the killing of Russian politician Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead Friday night in Moscow, but he is convinced that the opposition political activist posed absolutely no threat to the Russian authorities.
YEREVAN, March 2. /ARKA/. Alexander Iskandaryan, a political analyst and the head of the Caucasus Institute, finds it difficult to point out persons or organizations that might benefit from the killing of Russian politician Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead Friday night in Moscow, but he is convinced that the opposition political activist posed absolutely no threat to the Russian authorities.
“It is clear that the radical opposition activists will accuse Putin, ‘regime’ and so on… But it is hard to believe this, since ‘regime’ or Putin have no reasons to kill him. Mr. Nemtsov poses absolutely no threat to ‘the regime’ and it is also impossible to say that he was a political alternative,” Iskandaryan was quoted by Novosti-Armenia as saying in an interview with Sputnik-Armenia.
In his opinion, is would be also wrong to say that Nemtsov was killed by ‘the opposite side’.
“This killing will make Nemtsov a symbol of anti-Putin rhetoric, but it will be unable to change political things,” Iskandaryan said. “Nothing significant can happen, since the public niche occupied by Nemtsov (it can’t be even called political) is extremely narrow for any political change, and it means neither ‘regime’ not Putin have grounds not only to kill him, but also to notice what is spoken in this niche.”
Iskandaryan also finds it difficult to imagine any overseas conspiracy, since it was impossible to achieve any political goal by this crime.
He thinks the person who has ordered the killing didn’t belong to the group of high-level decision-making people.
Commenting on such a vigorous reaction to this crime in Armenia, the expert said it showed how underdeveloped is political discourse in the country.
He said that sometimes developments in other countries, especially in Russia, are not considered as internal affair of that country.
“Very often Russia is mentioned on Armenia’s political arena despite this has nothing in common with Russia.
This is an uncut cord and failure to differentiate outside and inside things. And this black-and-white picture leads to immature discourse,” Iskandaryan said in his interview.
In his words, this is a widespread disease. «A Russian official or somebody else says something somewhere, and this looms large in Armenia growing into some threat or some serious discussion,» he said.
«Very often I hear something like 'Russia said', 'Russia did', but in fact this is quotation of a third-rate official, and this immaturity leads to perception of the killing of a man who once was quite popular as an important event for Armenia, while in Armenia's political life this is not an event at all.» --0-----
