"Đurđevdan" i na ruskom

Sure, I totally agree, but perhaps it goes both ways as your poll indicates. There are also attempts to stir up nationalist sentiment here, especially with regards to Georgia and Azerbaijan. Incidentally, the poll doesn’t give a figure for how Georgians view Armenia so the situation is not clear at all. You say “A recent poll demonstrated that Georgian’s do not consider Armenia a friendly country,” but there is no data.Is it more or less than the 84 percent of Armenians who don’t consider Georgia to be a friendly country. Anyway, what’s your point? That the ALL-RUSSIAN center of the study of public opinion is a credible opinion pollster? From what I understand it started off as a credible organization respected in Russia and the West, but is now referred to as “[Russian] State Controlled.”It was founded by Yuri Levada and was really valued, but then Putin removed him and appointed his own people. Levada claims it was because the Kremlin didn’t want his polls on Chechnya published during an election year. His polls also showed that Putin’s popularity was lower than the Kremlin were happy with. His replacement, Valeriy Fedorov, is reportedly referred to as a member of the presidential administration.That’s your primary source and argument? That’s the poll you’re sarcastically referring me to look at? One conducted by a State-run organization directly linked to the Kremlin? Even worse that the Armenian media would treat it as somehow reliable. Then again, the professionalism of journalists here is so low and we know that newspapers and TV companies reports only what is suits their political and economic goals.Still, I do agree that anti-Georgian sentiment is strong here and anti-Armenia sentiment is the same there. However, the two feed off each other and that should be understood. Regardless, I despise nationalism among Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Georgians (and everyone else for that matter) and let me just ask this question. Many of those bloggers decrying the “death of democracy” in Georgia took what position during the February presidential election and 1 March clashes? Were there posts on the “death of democracy” in Armenia?Rhetorical question — of course there weren’t.Basically, is this about democracy and human rights or something else? Incidentally, all sides are guilty of this. My take is that tolerance and respect for others is key here, but I doubt this action was designed with that in mind. That’s their right, of course, but it was not held to serve the purpose of promoting tolerance for minority and religious rights in GeorgiaIf anything, it was a nationalist response to a nationalist action and was staged to serve a nationalist purpose. That is, it was to promote anti-Georgian attitudes in Armenia. Or maybe when the next Jewish monument in Yerevan is vandalized or swastikas daubed on walls happens, we’ll refer to “Armenians” being nationalist, racist and anti-semitic?Anyway, unfortunately, the gut knee jerk reaction of ALL ethnic groups in this region veers towards nationalism when we should all be working to changing that mentality if there is to be a peaceful future where everyone can respect the rights of others. We need to CHANGE nationalist stereotypes and prejudices and NOT feed into them. Unfortunately, Georgian nationalism in terms of Norashen mobilizes the Armenian nationalists, Armenians pushing a nationalist line in Javakheti creates a knee-jerk reaction from Georgian nationalists, and vice-versa. It’s also why this region will not be democratic or tolerant for a long, long time to come.

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