THOUGHTS OF INSANE

    At the end of the 1980s when we met refugees and were indignant with felling of trees in Karabakh we asked one and the same question how world community can keep silence in such a minute! We could not understand how the whole world could keep silence in January 1990 and then again many times. Why are we keeping silence now, when our neighbors have January 1990? How could we keep silence when Azerbaijani settlements in Georgia and our oil pipelines were bombed and railways were blown up? And we even did not hesitate to say that Azerbaijan must not cooperate with unstable Georgia. We are keeping silence when drunk Russian Bear recognizes independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and do not dare to express our opinion and position as a sovereign state.
     Needless to say that Azerbaijan has lost its face and a label of coward and unreliable neighbor has been stuck on it. Where do we have this fear from, may be it stayed since January 1990? But that time the young Guy was in Moscow and has seen nothing of this kind. What is he afraid of?
     Why he organized military parades, gives daily promises to liberate, defeat and teach a lesson to the enemy and other fairy tales like that?
     It looks like that somebody is not simply embarrassed, but he started speaking quietly, as if he fears that somebody in the Kremlin will overhear and misunderstand him.
     I wonder what is he thinking about? May be he has such thoughts:
     Everything was so good: $70 million a week, the highest ratings in the party, endless successes at local television channels and the most important thing happy people, who have decided who will be their president for three terms running! And at that moment Misha has proclaimed democracy and market economy, instead of obeying Russia, as other leaders of the region, to ensure stability He had plenty of oil and gas just to live and enjoy his life. But he started thinking about the country, European values, preventing corruption, joining NATO and integration into Europe. But we are speaking the same, but doing the opposite things! He had just to gather people on the square to show to the whole how they applaud to their leader and love him Ah, Misha, Misha, who governs the country they way you do
     How one should explain our wise position to people when your neighbor is robbed and murdered, you must keep silence? Yes, Misha, you are unsuitable neighbor, because people can like democracy, corruption prevention and order. They can ask and want the same, but why do I need that? Russians would have better finished you off, then I would have no fear of orange revolution.
     Damn with these Americans, they could just pretend that they are unable to do anything! Look, Ankara is just sitting and watching quietly. Can you guys in Washington just sit still? Estonians can be opposed to that, they are far away, nothing is going to happen to them. I dont like these geopolitics and human values.
     Everything was so nice and convincing oil, money, military parade, Armenians were upset and opposition has resigned itself to the situation. What is going to happen to us next?
     The most important thing is to prevent Russias invasion into the republic, because our people will themselves give them the keys from the city gates. But they will have no guts for the deeds, they will start begging for positions and vowing fidelity to Moscow, as our party leaders did in January 1990.
     Ah Misha, Misha

Dostoyevskii