On October 17, a big party took place in connection with the wedding of the son of the NA speaker Hovik Abrahamyan and the daughter of the NA parliamentarian Gagik Tsarukyan. The ceremony was very
luxurious, much money was spent which is not surprising. The Armenian rich men among which Hovik Abrahamyan and Gagik Tsarukyan are do not like to spare moreover if the point is about their children and moreover considering that “what they do they do for the sake of their children”.
 
In accordance with this logic, they marry their children with each other. This phenomenon when people having power and richness become relatives is particular to monarchic or feudal periods when through this way questions relating to the security were solved or they tried to secure themselves from
betrayals, they became relatives with their rival family of course if they could not win them.
 
But in the world, this phenomenon which is still present within royal families started yielding even on this plane. For example, the Britain royal family accepted the marriage of the prince Charles and lady Diana with great difficulty because Diana was not from such a aristocratic family to be the wife of the prince. But the marriage nevertheless took place. The Spanish prince went even farther and married with an ordinary woman, a TV reporter and the Spanish royal family which was against this marriage, nevertheless admitted it.   
 
In Armenia, just the opposite seems to be taking place and the tradition of monarchic or feudal marriages seems to get rooted more and more. The children of the Armenian governmental elite started getting marriage exceptionally with each other. There seems to be no marriage between a governmental member’s son with a daughter of an ordinary citizen, or the
opposite. The whole elite become relatives. This phenomenon is connected not only with the fact to secure mutual security. The point is that the sons of the “elite” do not communicate with ordinary citizens for any possibility to be to connect their lives with one of them. Not only the “elite” but also their children are always surrounded by bodyguards. It is natural that under such conditions their children will have feelings only towards each other because they communicate exceptionally with each other.
 
They do not have any opportunity to get acquainted with other people. They are also likely to have been educated in a way not to even wish to think about the necessity to communicate with other people, to resist the isolation of their “elite” world. They grow with the same values as their fathers and naturally, they believe that only those alike them are worth their communication and the rest of humanity must get surprised at the luxury of their marriages.
 
YEGHISHE METSARENTS