When an official threats the journalist “I will destroy you, I will close your newspaper” so on, it is very usual, international practice, there is nothing strange here. The “national specific” appears when the official adds “I have legal grounds for that”. Certainly he has. For instance they can invent a false story about a newspaper as if X Company was going to sign a 1million agreement with the Y Company but that bargain was failed because of the newspaper publication, so the newspaper should compensate that 1 million. As we know the companies belong to the authorities, and they can sign false contracts as much as they want. But they can simply put drugs in the journalist’s pocket and the “Independent court” will decree that the journalist is engaged in drag business.  If the people unpleasant to the authorities are accused of organizing John Kennedy’s murder, it is also very admissible “legal ground”.

 Our country is full of “legal grounds”. Do you think that thousands of people are kept in prisons without those grounds? Certainly they are not.  What about crying “Levon”? They have cried wrong things, and now they are punished. Since crying unpleasant things means to try to usurp the authority.

And more if a “06” overtakes an expensive “Jeep”, the latter’s driver with his guard has enough grounds to beat the driver of “06”. Since the skinhead guards and their boss are responsible for state stability and those who are beaten try to destabilize the situation.

In general, muscles are undeniable legal grounds. Ashot Manucharyan’s, Hovhannes Galajyan’s, Suren Abrahamyan’s, Narek Galstyan’s cases are a good proof for this. For the same legal grounds a young activist from the opposition, Arsen Kharatyan, was beaten yesterday.  Those who beat him will not be detected. There are no enough legal grounds.