They praise that they have greatly increased the tax revenues of the budget in recent years. Recently, during the presentation of last year’s report of the government’s five-year plan of activity in the National Assembly, Nikol Pashinyan proudly declared that the tax revenues of the state budget in 2025 will be 2.3 times more than the figure of 2017. We collected 1 trillion 648 billion drams or 4.3 billion dollars more in taxes.

Very good, but if that is the case, where does the money go that the government borrows more than half a billion dollars in 1 day?

4.3 billion is a big amount for Armenia. But in many cases, it is not known where the money goes, what it is spent on, and even more, what is given to the citizen.

If the budget revenues have increased so much, why are they not implementing the programs that are implemented with loans and putting the country under such a disproportionately high financial burden? They managed to more than double the state debt in almost 4 times shorter time. They increased by around 8 billion dollars, but they are not satisfied with that either. They continue to take loans at a high pace and in large quantities.

The other day, with only 2 loan agreements in 1 day, the government decided to attract another large loan funds.

One of the agreements is with the Asian Development Bank, the other is with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. They are going to take a loan of 293 million dollars from the Asian Development Bank, and 264.4 million dollars from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. In general, we are talking about more than 557 million dollars. With these 2 agreements alone, they borrow more than half a billion dollars.

With 293 million dollars from the Asian Development Bank, they plan to build so-called earthquake-resistant schools. We are talking about 50 schools.

This proves once again that even the school construction program, which is being speculated so much, is being done with loans. Nikol Pashinyan talks about increasing taxes by 4.3 billion dollars, but they take 293 million dollars in loans to build a school. And the characteristic thing is that sometimes these loans are no different from commercial loans.

264.4 million of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development was taken to solve the problem of housing security for the people of Artsakh. In the justification of the agreement, they wrote that they plan to provide long-term housing solutions for around 109,000 refugees within the framework of the money.

Not even a forced emigrant, a “refugee”.

We are talking about a loan, but they present it in such a way that it gives the impression that we are dealing with a grant. It is true that there is a grant component in this loan, but it is only a small part of the amount.

Out of 264.4 million dollars, 240 million is the loan, only 24.4 million is the grant.

The government takes this money in order to implement the program of providing housing for displaced and dispossessed Artsakh citizens. And again the same question arises, why with loans, if the budget revenues increased by 4.3 billion dollars? They could allocate 264.4 million dollars out of that 4.3 billion and solve the problem of housing security for the people of Artsakh.

Especially since they plan to implement this program not all at once, in one year, but over the course of years.

At that time, when the tax revenues of the state budget had not yet managed to increase by 4.3 billion dollars, as Nikol Pashinyan says, and they had not yet destroyed Artsakh, Armenia annually provided up to 130-140 billion drams of aid to Artsakh in the form of an interest-free loan. There is no longer a need for such assistance, because Artsakh does not exist either, and these funds remain in the budget.

Why doesn’t the government implement the housing provision program for Artsakh residents at the expense of the money provided to Artsakh on time, and it takes a loan of 264.4 million dollars for it?

They could settle comfortably within that amount and there would be no need for a loan.

After all, we are talking about a much bigger amount than the loan of 264.4 million dollars. If we turn the financial assistance provided to Artsakh in the form of an interest-free loan into foreign currency, at least 350 million dollars will be obtained annually. It is a much larger amount than the loan involved.

But instead, the government has decided that it will solve the housing security problem of Artsakh citizens with loans. Thus, they will have another opportunity to justify their extraordinary policy of burying the state in debt. Recently, we see how they are trying to “write off” the state debts accumulated by billions by purchasing weapons.

In addition, they will leave the people of Artsakh “in debt”. Especially for this purpose, they are announcing this loan agreement now, in order to woo them on the eve of the elections.

Before that, as is known, they decided to increase the benefits of the housing program for some categories. For two years, people have been complaining that it is not possible to buy an apartment both in Yerevan and outside of Yerevan with the money offered by the government, the apartments are much more expensive than the allocated money, but no one listened. At that time, the breath of elections was not yet felt, there was no problem of wooing the people of Artsakh.

The elections came closer, and the people of Artsakh were also remembered.

HAKOB KOCHARYAN

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“In order to understand the role of transport corridors in the context of the Armenian Genocide, the Berlin-Baghdad railway megaproject, which was one of the important tools of Germany’s colonial strategy, is key,” he recalled this important historical episode in a conversation with 168.am. political scientist Vahe Davtyan.

The political scientist noted that the 2,500 km long railway line was intended to provide a direct connection between Germany and the regions rich in oil resources in Mesopotamia, including the territories of present-day Iraq, Kuwait, northern Saudi Arabia and eastern Syria, which were part of the Ottoman Empire at that time.

«A key hub in this system was the port of Basra, on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab River, which was seen as an outlet to the Persian Gulf. The project immediately came into conflict with the geopolitical interests of Great Britain. As a result, in 1913 Anglo-German-French negotiations on the status of the Persian Gulf and Kuwait stipulated that the railway should end at Basra without direct access to the Gulf. With this decision, Britain effectively reasserted its influence in the Ottoman territories, a fact whose long-term consequences are still noticeable later.

It is no coincidence that a number of Western researchers consider this very project as one of the structural prerequisites of the First World War. At the same time, the construction of the railway required enormous human resources. Since 1914, the Ottoman authorities began to conscription of Armenian men aged 16-60 into “labor battalions”, where they were involved in hard construction work, often subject to systematic extermination. In most cases, after finishing the work, they were simply killed on the spot.

In addition, the same railway network was also used as the main logistical route for the deportations. Armenians were transported to the Syrian deserts that way. Although the construction of the Berlin-Baghdad railway was completed only in 1940, already in completely different geopolitical conditions, its role in the process of organizing the Genocide and mass deportation of the Armenian population remains unmistakable.“, he elaborated.

To the observation that another infrastructure called TRIPP is being designed in our territory. where will it lead us, Vahe Davtyan responded, noting that historical experience is also important for understanding current processes.

«Today, the corridor being planned through Syunik should be considered not only from the point of view of economic efficiency, but also from the point of view of political consequences. Any “corridor” logic presupposes a functional reformulation of the territory, turning it into a zone where the priority is not the sovereign interests of the given state, but the strategic requirements of external forces. In the case of Armenia, a number of risks arise here.

First, the erosion of sovereignty, when control, security or management of infrastructure may fall outside national jurisdiction. Second, the deepening of economic and political dependencies within the country, when communication channels begin to work not for national development, but for serving the interests of foreign centers. And finally, the vulnerability of the security system, because such corridors often become a tool of not only economic, but also military-political pressure.“, the political scientist elaborated.

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“Pressing” in the program historian, political scientist Gagik Hambaryan spoke about Nikol Pashinyan’s lies and manipulations of CP members in general, which generally have one goal: to distract the public from the most important agenda issues.

“Our society likes to focus on secondary events, leaving the important ones behind. All Nikolents actions are aimed at that. And the important thing was that Seyran Ohanyan directly accused Nikol from the NA podium for handing over Artsakh and giving Shushi to the Azerbaijanis. The Defense Ministry of Artsakh was not responsible for the Hadrut-Fizouli-Jabrayil direction, the Ministry of Defense of Armenia, led by Nikol Pashinyan and Onik Gasparyan, was responsible for it.

Nicole fell into hysteria from the sitting place, she was moving her legs, clicking her fingers, taking off and putting on her glasses… Then very soon she found herself, called the society a dog and a scumbag, and people turned on her. If during the past 5 years, Onik Gasparyan has not been charged, it means that he is afraid of Onik Gasparyan, and Onik Gasparyan is afraid of him,” said Gagik Hambaryan.

Maramas in the video.

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“Pressing” in the program doctor of political science, former chairman of the RA National Assembly Tigran Torosyan Referring to Nikol Pashinyan’s statements about terrorizing the people with war, he said:

“Nikol Pashinyan scares citizens with war, blackmails them. People who fear war, however, should remember what happened in the last 8 years and what happened before that. We have found ourselves in such a situation that today Artsakh and significant areas of Armenia are under the occupation of Azerbaijan. Is this peace?

When one side refuses to defend itself, to resist, the other side no longer needs to fight. It is no coincidence that Aliyev said: we will not enter Yerevan with tanks, but with passenger cars… Let people look at the facts: where are the Azerbaijanis today, and where were they before 2018?

So, these are the ones who bring disaster, war, losses, genocide, ethnic cleansing.

He brought war, disaster, genocide and ethnic cleansing. He did not and cannot bring peace.

Garegin Nzhdeh did not say: go to war, he said: be ready for war, have a strong will and a strong army. We have been peaceful when we resisted the enemy, when we defended our home and land. At that time, father and son Aliyev did not get along, they had cut ties. Just 2 years before they came to power, Ilham Aliyev complained that behind closed doors he was being forced to recognize the independence of Artsakh. There can be real peace only after they leave, when the other party realizes that if they commit aggression, they will receive a worthy response.”

Details in the video.

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“Is the problem of Azerbaijani refugees new, and Azerbaijan did not know that there are Azerbaijani refugees? The number of Armenians who became refugees from Azerbaijan is about 400,000, from Baku, Kirovabad, Sumgait, Shahumyan, Getashen… these are the figures of the United Nations and which are not talked about today. If you are a competent government, you will demand from the international courts that the problem be considered fully and impartially. At that time, it will be clear that Azerbaijan is obliged to compensate the Armenian refugees, and this should not include the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh, who must return to Artsakh and fully exercise their right to self-determination.” “Pressing” Tigran Torosyan, doctor of political science, former chairman of the RA National Assembly, said in the program.

According to him: Azerbaijan used to talk about one million refugees, but it was quickly revealed in international courts that their number is 8,600. Azerbaijan was just embarrassed… On any issue we have strong arguments to show that we have counter-arguments on any issue raised by Azerbaijan.

“Azerbaijan does not need to recognize the territorial integrity of Armenia, who is Azerbaijan to recognize or not to recognize, it just needs to respect the UN charter, which states that UN member states are obliged to recognize and respect each other’s territorial integrity,” said the former deputy speaker of the National Assembly.

The latter noted that international law will return to its place, because humanity cannot throw away regulatory norms, considering the relations and conflicts of so many states.

“I especially want to say that the people of Artsakh will return to Artsakh and achieve the recognition of their self-determination, only on one condition, in case of appropriate professional work,” concluded Tigran Torosyan.

Մանրամասները՝տեսանյութում:

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Since when did Armenian women do needlework, what did it mean, how lives were saved thanks to needlework? We talked about this ethnographer, candidate of historical sciences Karine Bazeyan with.

– Since when did Armenians do needlework?

– Embroidery has an ancient origin. Since it is an organic material, the thread and cloth decay very quickly, and we do not have documented ancient examples of it, but there are sources that prove that embroidery has existed among Armenians for several thousand years. In all cases, in the first book translated into Armenian, the Bible, embroidery already exists as a term, and this means that it was known. It was a predominantly women’s occupation.

From the Middle Ages, we know for sure that embroidery was widespread and a craft in great demand. Workshops where men worked, donations were made to the church, particularly the Mother See of St. Etchmiadzin.

We have evidence that embroidery reached a high level of perfection in the early Middle Ages, and this shows that it is much older, because it takes a long way to reach perfection.

– Did they find the oldest fabric from Ani?

– Until recently, it was from Ani, but a large collection of fabric came out of the Areni excavations, and a small piece of embroidery was found. It appears to be a piece of clothing made of woolen threads. In other words, it is completely folk embroidery. It dates back to the 7th-9th centuries of our era. This is the oldest example that was found in Armenia, and Ani’s was found earlier, it came to light during the excavations of Mar and Orbelu, and it is elite, because the embroidery is with gold threads, the fabric is silk, it is from the burial outfit of a girl child of a relative of Tigran Honents. Both the dress is silk, and the cover thrown over the face and under the head, which are also embroidered and represent the elite embroidery of the 13th century.

– Is there a difference in decorative patterns between the samples found during the excavations?

– Folk embroidery is a bit simpler both in terms of material and technique. it is made with wool thread, the texture is a bit stiff. We see patterns in both carpets and rugs. And as for the clothing found in Ani, it is gold thread embroidery, flat. The other one is the one made by twisting gold and silk thread, which was widely used in Western Armenia. In Cilicia, in Upper Hayk, this technique was widespread until the end of the 19th century, the beginning of the 20th century. If you compare the patterns, you can see that there is a similarity, especially in the part of the tree of life. It is more expressed in the clothing complex of the High Hayk woman.

– For example, there were other ornaments in Syunik, Artsakh․ They embroidered a star flower, a jug.

– Of course, this is what makes our embroidery interesting, that it is very diverse, and every region has its own ways of expression. The materials, threads, objects, the combination of colors are different. You clearly build which ornament should be where, because meaning is placed in all of them.

– The dragon, snake ornament was widespread․ what does this mean?

– Our people have snake worship in their ancient beliefs. A little later, the snake turned into a dragon, because there is no real dragon, it is a mythical snake, which is bigger and has a different function. It has a double meaning in Armenian mythology. positive and negative. It represents both evil and good power. Dragon stones were placed in water sources in Armenia, they protected the water and in this sense they are connected with the water element.

And the snake is still used in our vocabulary. they say “it is as cunning as a snake”, but the preserved and recorded ethnographic materials from almost all regions of the RA show that the snake was considered an animal that brings success to the family, protects it, and ensures well-being. The people have always said: “The house is the house”, and the snakes that have come and lived in the barns for a long time, the aunties even fed those snakes, they put milk in bowls so that the snake would come, eat the milk and leave.

– Is it true that Armenians used to keep snakes in their apartments?

– Not that they kept the snake, but the snake came. He comes by himself, you don’t go to fetch. The snake chose, went to the pantry, because the food was there, they noticed, because the ground was made of soil, the trajectory could be seen. That winding had to go later, it was manifested in our jewelry, in the form of the Armenian capital letter T. We see this image in rugs, carpets, embroidery, and this shows that it was placed in the given object to protect the given family. Not every family had a snake, so a pictorial snake was used in the house. They covered something with it, for example, a chest, threw it on bread, etc. What is interesting in our embroidery? that they are usually found in borders.

– Did the ornaments have a sinister meaning?

– They had different meanings. The snake in the ornament is protective. It is also related to fertility.

The Tree of Life, which is the tree of life itself, symbolizes growth, fertilization, and wealth. The main support of Artsakh towels is the ornament. Only the Tree of Life with the pair of birds on it. Fertility is expressed in that way here. That is why this ornament is made on festive, ceremonial towels.

In Vaspurakan, Syunik, Artsakh, we have a custom when before Easter, on Good Friday, two types of protective functions were performed. On the one hand, blacksmiths quietly and silently made iron rings and bracelets, which were then worn by children and newly-wed women as amulets, and in the case of embroidery, on Good Friday, mothers made images of the Tree of Life with small beads on the backs of their children. In other regions, an image of a snake or a scorpion may be made to protect the child. It was already a bulwark, it would protect against all kinds of damage.

– What did the colors mean?

– The main colors were red, blue and green. A little more yellow. Red symbolizes life, green symbolizes fertility. green road, vegetation… Our wedding ceremony is completely related to red and green. We have types of embroidery that are done only in white, and in this case it is of purely territorial, local significance.

– The traditions of which embroidery school continue to this day?

– There came a time when embroidery declined, and this was due to a number of circumstances: both political and socio-economic. Until the beginning of the 20th century, when our people lived in their cradle, continued to create, carried that culture.

After the Armenian Genocide, they left the cradle. For Armenian women, embroidery is a sign of identity. Diaspora-Armenian women tried to keep their Armenianness through needlework and continued to create for that reason.

As a result of the genocide, a large number of Armenian women who appeared in European and Middle Eastern countries were able to support their families in a completely new, unfamiliar environment, without knowing the language, with manual labor. It was the grace of their hands, with which they were able to find a living for the children. Not only did they keep the children, but also by selling the handicrafts, they gave the children education in different countries.

In other words, it was a lifeline for our women, a very important sign of identity, that’s why they keep it to this day. And it was due to this that Syrian-Armenian women, coming to Armenia, popularized the embroidery culture.

Unfortunately, having mastered almost all technical means, we have separate embroidery schools, which no longer exist today. We have masters who try to restore and make copies, but we don’t have the people to deal with it en masse. That was the problem that Aintap’s embroidery seemed to be left out. There must be a demand. Unfortunately, there is no Artsakh school. The masters also copy, but that is a completely different thing. The same applies to Vaspurakan, particularly the Van seam and the works made with it are also gone today. There are many masters working with Urfa, Marash needlework.

– How do you feel about modern approaches?

– Positive, because times, culture, people’s demands, life conditions are changing. Today there is a demand for other subjects. He went more into the field of market relations. They make souvenirs that are easy to buy. They also do things to order, and in this case, they do it as the client wanted, and there are some changes here. The important thing is that the masters try to stay in the national traditions, to continue.

– Are new ornaments being created?

– Yes, they are created, the only problem is that we have different masters. Masters who remain in the traditional, and we have masters who keep the technique, the national one, but create their own, and thus their works differ from others.

– What message did Armenian women convey to the generations through needlework?

– We transfer knowledge through needlework. We transmit our ancient beliefs, our essence: who are we, what are we like? The color, the pattern, the image, the object that we created are ours and by passing it on to the next generations, we try to preserve the Armenian identity. I think that is the main thing.

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Nikol Pashinyan’s reputation remains at the threshold of an administrative resource, even decreasing, while Samvel Karapetyan’s reputation is rising rapidly. He is an exceptional person, a crisis manager. About this “Classes” said on the show Edgar Ghazaryan, member of the “Strong Armenia with Samvel Karapetyan” alliance, former ambassador of Armenia to Poland, former governor of Vayots Dzor region.

«On April 11, a rally was held, the main focus of which was Samvel Karapetyan’s speech during the rally. It was a huge turnout, there were a large number of young people and positive messages, a fantastic march took place after the rally, which caused an additional emotional state for Pashinyan. The pre-election campaign has not started yet, and already such a rally. This can’t help but worry him.

If you have noticed, Pashinyan no longer does live broadcasts when he goes to the marzes, every time he publishes 2 one-minute videos, he considers it enough. He doesn’t even hold hall meetings because he can’t fill them, he doesn’t hold rallies. And suddenly he sees that Samvel Karapetyan’s team is holding such a rally…

Let Samvel Karapetyan go to the marzes, have meetings with the voters of his political power, see what will happen… Imagine if Samvel Karapetyan goes to Hrazdan tomorrow… what will happen in the central square of Hrazdan,” Edgar Ghazaryan said.

Details in the video.

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“Classes” in the program Satik Seyranyan the guest is historian, candidate of historical sciences, associate professor of YSU “Armenian History” chair Hovik Grigoryan is։

In a conversation with the historian, we also touched on all the Turkish and Azerbaijani theses about the Armenian Genocide, the Great Turan, and pan-Turkism in general, which the current authorities of Armenia, led by Nikol Pashinyan, and the authoritarian circles, since 2018, have been spreading day and night, misleading the Armenian society.

The main theses of the interview are below.

• The Armenian Genocide was a comprehensive period, and the Great Genocide was a brutal but only one part of it. The Ottoman Empire, which was in its last period, had the task of maintaining the empire, and the method for this was the homogeneity of the state. The plan to exterminate Armenians was discussed for the first time in 1890. after the famous Gum-Gapu demonstration in the Gum Gapu district of Constantinople on July 15, when the issue of the elimination of Armenians was raised in the Sultan’s palace. After that, Sultan Hamid created his model of Abdulhamid pan-Islamism, which was based on the plan to destroy Christian Armenians: 300,000 victims, 100,000 assimilated Armenians, 300,000 exiles… This was the first stage. The next stage was the massacres of Cilicia, in which 30,000 Armenians became victims. Of course, there was the intervention of the Turkish state. 

The Gum Gapu demonstration (July 15, 1890) was the first mass protest organized by the Social-Democratic Honchakyan Party in K. Pols. The goal was to draw the attention of the European powers to the Armenian issue and demand the implementation of Article 61 of the Berlin Treaty. The demonstration was brutally suppressed by the Turkish authorities. The Armenian Patriarchate was located in that district.

• Hakob Papikyan was an Armenian deputy of the Turkish Mejlis, an Ittihatian who was more pro-Turkish than the Turks themselves. After the massacres in Cilicia, when there was great discontent, a committee of the Turkish Mejlis was sent to Cilicia to investigate the events. There were 4 people. two Armenians, Hakob Papikyan and Hovhannes Mostishyan, and two Muslims. When they arrived in Cilicia, he was found honest and upon his return, he revealed the truth, saying that members of the Ittihat local organization had participated in those incidents, confirming the direct involvement of the Young Turks. On the eve of presenting the 1909 Adana pogrom bulletin in the Mejlis, Hakob Papikyan died under incomprehensible circumstances, but the bulletin is still there. This is the 2nd stage of the Armenian Genocide. The 3rd stage is the Great Genocide, the heaviest stage, in which 1.5 million Armenians died.

• The other day, on the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Erdogan made another manipulation, and the Patriarch of Constantinople presented it. The plan for the destruction of Armenians was clearly outlined already in 1910-12. At that time, Ittihat made a very quick transition to pan-Turkism, pan-Turkism. There are many testimonies that the problem of destroying the Armenian element was clearly discussed in the meetings of Thessaloniki. The first stage was the massacre of the Armenians of Western Armenia, the next would be Oghuzism, which includes the extermination of Eastern Armenians, and the last would be Pan-Turkism. Armenia is still an obstacle today, and various plans are being developed to eliminate this obstacle. Turkey nothing has changed in the programs.

(Pan-Turkism is the national, racial ideology of the Turkic-speaking peoples. The goal of that ideology was the unification of the Turkic-speaking peoples from the Adriatic Sea to China in one state unit. 

Pantukism should be practiced in 3 stages. 

1st stage. The ideology of pan-Turkism could only be realized through a strong Turkey, to achieve which it was necessary to Turkify or destroy the other non-Turkic peoples of the empire (later the state). 

2nd stage. Utility. Turkey, Azerbaijan and the northern regions of Iran should be united in one state. 

3rd stage. After successfully completing the above tasks, only Turkey should start the creation of Greater Turan (Panturanism). It should extend from the Mediterranean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, from China to the North Caucasus.).

• Andranik Kocharyan can go and see the Turkish sources, in which the names of 3 million Armenian victims are counted. If the people in power did not receive systematic education at the time, at least let them read now, learn not to add water to the enemy’s plan…

• That’s not all. We have the 4th stage of the Armenian Genocide, which includes 1918-1920. the destruction of Eastern Armenians, when the Turkish army invaded Eastern Armenia, which killed hundreds and thousands of Armenians. This phase is related to the Kemalites, the founders of today’s Republican Turkey. The fathers of today’s Turkey continue the Armenian Genocide. Erdogan continues the line of Mustafa Kemal, and Mustafa Kemal, in addition to 1.5 million, eliminated another 200-300,000 Armenians. There is also the massacre of the Armenians of Smyrna, the destruction of the Poles Armenians and the Armenians of Cilicia by the hands of the same Kemalites. The Armenian Genocide was carried out in the Ottoman Empire for more than 30 years. We often discuss the 3rd phase of the Genocide, the pivotal Mets Ekhern period, when Armenians were dispossessed, but on Armenian Genocide Memorial Day, we remember the victims of all 4 phases.:

• It is sad, but the International Institute for the Prevention of Genocide named after Lemkin today is much more Armenian than many Armenians.

• Let’s also not forget the massacres of Armenians in Sumgait, Baku, the genocidal events in Artsakh… It’s as if they forgot about them, but at one time it was remembered… Let’s remember, remind and demand… This was Aram I’s resolution yesterday, I think it is relevant today. This should become our main slogan related to this topic:

• To be honest, I haven’t listened to what he (Nikol Pashinyan, editor) said for a long time, but now that you are reading those parts of his address on the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, I understand what he wants to say, at whose order, what problem he wants to solve… In the Ottoman Empire, there was a thesis that Armenians lived there safely and happily, but fell under the influence of the Russians and the British, and that’s what happened. This is a well-known Turkish official thesis, which Pashinyan repeats. This is a fairy tale. Armenians did not live in paradise in the Ottoman Empire. I would advise you to read Mkrtich Khrimyan’s two works, “Van Gyi” and “Argyi Gyi” about the burning of the market of Van and the massacre of Armenians by Bayazet. The latter became the foundation of “Khent” of Raffu Armenians. If this is heaven, what can I say… Armenians did not live in heaven, and it is natural that Armenians, like many European nations, sought to get out of such an environment and create their own national states. And putting the guilt of the massacre of Armenians on this is inadmissible. Pashinyan is not saying anything new. this is the official turkish thesis that i don’t want to discuss too much so as not to spread it:

To remind, Pashinyan said in his address. 

“…The policy of us, the Government of the Republic of Armenia and the governing majority, is based on these thoughts and determination.

With the message of you, the citizens of the Republic of Armenia, we have shown determination to understand more deeply the history of our people that has lived in the past and is regularly repeated in order to prevent the repetition of that history in the future, to make our present and the future better.

Today, we have achieved that goal, among other things, thanks to the fact that we have understood that the Great Genocide cannot be allowed to become a tool for international players to fight against each other.

…The forces that come out with the appeals and logic of “returning the lost homeland, restoration of historical borders and justice” put the Republic of Armenia on the rails of the San Stefano Conference of 1878, the inevitable last stop of which is the loss of statehood and homeland, because everyone in the world has their own history, everyone has their own justice, everyone has their own lost homeland. We finally got out of this trap, and the attempts to lead Armenia in that direction again are an invitation to our state and people to the quagmire…”. 

• Today’s environment in Armenia is the most unfavorable environment in terms of Russia’s perception, including because of Russia’s unreasonable policy. Let’s remember the past period as well, when the Armenians of Mush and Sassoon in 1915 from spring to summer he resisted and was not saved, which is very unfortunate because the resister should have been saved. Of course, the retreat order of the Russian command played a role, and so did the lack of volunteers. This is one of the sad pages of our history, but it is not true to say that Russia organized the Armenian Genocide. Now, anti-Russian sentiment has intensified in Armenia because the Russian authorities did not behave so correctly in the matter of Artsakh, not realizing that they are creating serious problems for themselves in the region with the loss of Artsakh. When you give up, someone comes instead who has not forgotten that you are a wedge. Pan-Turkism is not forgotten, as ANM once claimed, for which it was severely criticized. When you turn from victim to accuser, you allow yourself to be retaliated against. We must not allow ourselves to be accused of what we are not guilty of. Otherwise, in the case of similar dissemination of Turkish theses by the current authorities of RA and continuing in this way, the Turks will turn from the guilty to the accuser.

• We have reached the recognition of our problem in the environment of more than three dozen countries, in some countries, the criminalization of the denial of the Genocide, today questioning the Genocide means that you stick a dagger in the back of those countries as well. Those states come out guilty, and others get a message not to deal with Armenians.

• 1988 when the Karabakh issue was being discussed in Moscow, YSU rector Sergey Hambardzumyan gave his famous speech, and I still hear a lot in Russia that your rector held the name of Armenians high. Such intellectuals should be in the foreground.

• Nemesis members did not kill innocent people. When the Young Turks still in 1918 had fled in December, the representatives of the new sultanate government admitted that a crime had been committed against Armenians. By the way, the last Sultan of Turkey, Vahideddin, was against the Armenian Genocide and sympathized with the Armenians. Military courts were opened, and the official Turkish court found the Young Turks guilty of the Armenian Genocide. It was the Turkish court that condemned Taleat, Enver, Cemal, others in absentia by suppressing the facts… That court was composed of Turks and Kurds, although it was formed at the instigation of the Entente states. According to the verdict of the Turkish court, minor characters were executed in Turkey, but the big ones escaped. The Turkish court could not do anything else. there were huge facts. By the way, the judges of that Turkish court were later convicted. One was the Kurdish Mustafa Pasha, who informed the Armenians about Enver’s movements. One of those judges is one of the maternal great-grandfathers of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Boris Johnson is Turkish on his mother’s side. That Johnson’s grandfather was executed in Turkey, and the family was taken to England.

The relation of “Nemesis” to Azerbaijan and why Azerbaijanis declare that the statues of “Nemesis” and Garegin Nzhdeh should be dismantled in Yerevan. “Nemesis” was set in motion because there was a punishment that had been meted out, but there were no enforcers of that punishment. By the way, one of the first operations of “Nemesis” was against Musavatka Azerbaijan, one of the first victims was Behbut Khan Jevanshir, one of the organizers of the massacre of Armenians in 1918. In September, 30,000 Armenians died in Baku. Misak Torlakyan destroyed Behbut Khan Jevanshir, Minister of Internal Affairs of Musavatka Azerbaijan, in Istanbul, and he, like Soghomon Tehleryan, was released as a result of the trial. Later, other bosses were also destroyed. Armenian traitors were also destroyed, such as Harutyun Mkrtchyan, who compiled lists of Armenian intellectuals. Other traitors were also destroyed. It was difficult to find the major players in the organization of the Armenian Genocide, those who were hiding, fleeing from place to place, acting under someone else’s name. People have been watching for months, discovered the routes, and just carried out the punishments. And that was the final stage of the Nemesis operation, the neutralization of Talaat, Enver, Cemal. It was a long process, many remain in the shadows, only the names of the shooters are known, but many devotees are not known. If the Armenian people didn’t do that, they wouldn’t deserve to live on earth:

In 1918 in December S. Tehleryan arrives in K. Polis to find traitor Harutyun Mkrtchyan, according to whose “black list” Talaat ordered in 1915. on April 24 to exile K. The Armenian political and cultural elite of Istanbul. 1919 in February, he shoots the Armenian betrayer K. In Istanbul. Soghomon Tehleryan himself, referring to the murder of the Armenian betrayer Harutyun Mkrtchyan, writes that his execution was his own initiative. “On the long road, my only thought was that new monster, the treacherous Yarut. Wasn’t it necessary to start my mission of revenge, which had become the purpose of my existence a long time ago…”?

• Hrach Papazyan, a detective and hero, remained in the shadows, for example. who had entered the circle of the Turks, became close to them and made the greatest contribution to the success of the cause, “Nemesis”. For the sake of solving the problems of his people, he lived in the Turkish environment for a long time, heard threats and insults against his people, but he acted as the son of a Turkish landowner, he even got circumcised for the sake of the job in order to gain confidence, and he got to the point where he became friends with one of the biggest criminals, Jemal Azmi’s son. He was a true humble hero, and what he did for the Armenian people became known only in the last decade of his life:

• We don’t seem to learn from our history. We don’t think about our next step… No nation is infallible, but we need the ability to analyze and understand our own mistakes.

• There is not even 1% confidence that Azerbaijan will not do the same, the threat from Turkey has not disappeared either, the plans have not changed. But I am sure that any crime will be punished sooner or later.

• Russia and any other country is not our liberator, every nation is the main guarantor of its freedom and salvation. But it is absolutely impossible for us to worsen our relations with Russia. In the end, there are two states that are an obstacle to pan-Turkism, and it is in their interests to be a state of Armenia. They are Iran and Russia. Our interests in this matter coincide, and this cannot be ignored:

• As I said, the second stage of pan-Turkishness is Oghuzism, which solves the problem of uniting all Turks, including Caucasian Turks. Armenia is the wedge that hinders the implementation of Oghuzism. I have also said that if Nakhichevan had remained in Armenia, Zangezur might not have been given to us. But since Nakhichevan was given to Azerbaijan, Soviet Russia could not hand over Zangezur and unite the Turks. 

• The program of Great Turan, nothing has changed, the name has changed. TRIPP will be called “Zangezuri Corridor”, it’s the same thing and it’s unacceptable for us. I have no faith that it will be opened, because it is written on paper, and there are many papers in history that have not come to life.

The peace agreement is also a myth, it will not happen either. We have heard many such tales. Even now they are scaring the people with war. And who told him, Nikol Pashinyan, that there will be a war? Is he making any hints, did they say something… It’s not that easy to start a war, it’s just clear that he has a problem of keeping power, because they know where they will end up after they don’t have power… The words are also a pity.:

• God forbid, if the “Zangezur Corridor” or TRIPP becomes a reality, it means the implementation of Oguzism.

• In the 19th and 20th centuries, no nation fighting for its freedom fought so much, used so many methods of struggle, as we see in the history and environment of Armenia. In that sense, our struggle was a real Calvary, which had various reasons… The liberation struggle of our people was difficult, but our people were not toothless. We have many heroic episodes in our history. 

• After several months of blockade in Artsakh, did the government representing Armenia do anything to change the situation? Was it that difficult to open that Lachine Corridor, especially since the document of November 9 was written about it? And now the fake Azerbaijani “ecologists” who closed that Corridor are being brought to Armenia for conferences today… Russia also has a share of the blame here. But when Armenia does nothing and blames the people of Artsakh, it is not moral.

• When a soldier does not feel the breath of his people behind him, he does not fight well. In Sardarapat, in Bash-Aparan, the soldier felt that breath, he also felt it in 1991-94. In Artsakh… there was no such thing in the war of 2020…

• It is a great evil when you oppose the parts of the nation to each other, divide each other. 1918-1920 we had already encountered that phenomenon in the speech of Western Armenians and Eastern Armenians. In the future, this was not the case, now the nation has been artificially divided again, pitted against each other. This is the biggest problem and it is not done by accident. The people of 1988 were an exceptional people, with a united spirit…

• On April 24, when I was climbing Tsitsernakaberd with my grandson, I saw that the number of young people and children was very large. It was the same situation very late. This means that there has been a change in people. When a young man goes to Tsitsernakaberd, he doesn’t go for appearance, it means that his values ​​have changed. The situation forces, they understand what is really happening. This is not the young man of 10 years ago, I can see the qualitative change… I feel it also from the quality of the questions asked by young people. This inspires hope. We will have a different generation in the coming years:

• This government does not like the attitude of the Armenian Church and His Holiness. Unlike the authorities of the day, which everywhere push national interests to the background, His Holiness’s statements, especially in the outside world, related to Artsakh, the destruction of our cultural monuments, and other national issues, are a blow to Azerbaijan. His Holiness is a consistent national figure, he does not forget anything, I have great respect for him. The firm position he has adopted is the reason for the attacks against him. The Armenian Church, with the majority of its members, showed that it remains a nationwide structure dedicated to national and nationwide values. Even Ottoman the authorities did not treat influential and authoritative Armenian clergy in this way. When I heard that they wanted to tax the Church, I involuntarily remembered the Middle Ages, when the Persian Denshapuh first taxed the Armenian Church, then the Arabs did it. It is absurd to put the church under the roof in the Armenian environment. I just don’t understand in whose mind this came up. Today’s situation is reminiscent of the Bolshevik political line of the 1920s. Now nobody remembers Benik Vardapet. At that time, the state gave money for propaganda, and it created the so-called Free Church and did counter-propaganda against the Armenian Church. But even the Bolsheviks did not tax to the church. Smells like an order from outside.

• I have witnessed several times in the church that people who came to the church for the purpose of baptism or marriage were interested in who will perform their ceremony: a religious leader or a priest faithful to the Armenian Church. This is a very important thing.

• The constitutional rights of our church must be preserved. If they do what they expect and change the Constitution, it will be the grave of the Armenian state. 

• I think we will have a different situation in June. Perhaps it would be more reasonable if the political blocs were united in 3-4 blocs. The RPA made a wise decision not to participate in the elections, because the people who should vote for the Republicans will vote for any of the opposition forces. But I was surprised by the excessive, unwarranted self-confidence of some forces. Today, there is nothing more important than standing at the head of the national power, the state.

• There is no people older than us. Perhaps we have a mission, and it is no coincidence that we were formed in this geographical area. The homogeneity of our population has helped us a lot over the centuries. Armenians made up the vast majority of the population. Even today, our national homogeneity is our advantage. Importing another element from outside is a special application.

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