May 28, 2026
In the “Pressing” program Satik Seyranyan the guest Suren Surenyants, chairman of the “Democratic Alternative” party, number 6 on the pre-election list of the “Prosperous Armenia” party is.
The main theses of the interview are below.
- Today’s military parade is pre-election decoration. It is at least puzzling to hold such a military parade, when you have not brought the country out of the status of a defeated, humiliated, vassal of Aliyev. This is an authorized military parade. This was a staged event, the purpose of which is to add some votes in his favor. You remember, don’t you, that Pashinyan said that he convinced his foreign partners not to view the military parade as militancy. If the elections were held on September 23, the military parade would take place on September 21. Everything would still be understandable if this defeated, broken-backed army was not placed in contrast with vulgar style, until 2020. with the victorious army he had. It is already a moral issue to hold a military parade in the case of having prisoners of war, especially since there are generals among them, who have a great role in the establishment of our Armed Forces.:
- It is absurd, isn’t it, that someone who has committed an army crime in the army is in charge of the defense department? This isn’t even a joke, I don’t know what is.
- The Chief of the General Staff is a pitiful slob, because if an Artsakh citizen gets along and works with Nikol Pashinyan, who surrendered Artsakh, he does not exist for me. We have never had such a gray, mediocrity head of the General Staff. Nikolakan Artsakh is an abominable thing.
- Trump is on the path to nicolization at a steady pace. In the eyes of the world community and serious people, Nicole is Trump with his genocidal, insane policy. In the text written by Trump in support of Nikol Pashinyan today, there is no mention of the security guarantees given to Armenia. According to that text, TRIPP is not about Armenia. I got the impression from this text that we are dealing with the “Government for Syunik” deal:
- If the American administration was very sure about the re-election of Nikol Pashinyan, they would have been patient, after the elections, they would have signed the document under solemn conditions, not in a transit situation. There is a lot of talk about the “property for debt” deal, now this is a “power for Syunik” deal. Could it be found out later that during the 40-minute meeting between Rubio and Mirzoya, the American side also received guarantees related to Iran? Are you so unaccountable as to turn the country into a geopolitical coin in order to keep your scabby power in the context of the events developing around Iran? Does fitting into Trump’s plans today mean that you automatically become an anti-Iran factor:
- Even with the two most possible solutions to the Iranian conflict, TRIPP will not become a reality. In the case of Israel’s victory, it will not make sense, in the case of Iran’s victory, if the situation remains like this, Iran will not allow it.
- The only country that was not targeted by Iran during the US-Israel-Iran war is Armenia, but not because of the beautiful eyes of Nikol Pashinyan, but because there is a Russian military presence in Armenia.
- Nikol Pashinyan has brought us to a place where nothing depends on us anymore. Pashinyan mined the field of activity of the new government. No new government can withdraw from the agreements undertaken by Armenia. It may just be luck that Russia and the USA can agree on our issues and manage our risks. Before visiting Yerevan, Rubio had a long phone conversation with Lavrov on the plane. naturally, they could not stop talking about Armenia. Another hope is that TRIPP cannot be implemented under these conditions. Iran will not allow it:
- They want to label the opposition forces as revisionists. I don’t remember an election with this kind of blatant foreign interference. But I want to tell our public, whom Trump supported, he failed. Remember, Orbán was supported in Hungary, he lost. During the previous elections, in 2021, Nicole was elected by lighting a candle in front of Putin’s picture, now Trump. This is the morality of this man.
- Russia raises the stakes too much, depriving Nikol Pashinyan of the opportunity to maneuver.
- What kind of money are you talking about, what trillions are you talking about? Since you are so rich, why did you put the 8 billion debt on the neck of the people? This is living with casino psychology. He will borrow so much until he gives Armenia in the end.
- If gas prices rise, the state will face economic collapse, because the most important component of our economic welfare bubble is cheap gas. Gas is a system-creating factor in Armenia. Everything will become more expensive in a chain. The state will simply stand still:
- In these elections, Nikol Pashinyan has become a classic bandit. every day he wakes up and talks about taking something away. Property rights are a constitutional imperative in all normal countries. If you dance to it, stop! We are dealing with the script of “Nicole and the 40 Gang”.:
- When he needs to present himself to society as a bum, he says: I’m a guy who eats perashki. If there are people who believe in it, then so many people are against Armenia’s independence.
- This is the case when people with mental imbalances are attracted to each other. Nikoli’s Armenia is a master class in anti-statecraft. Saakashvili’s Georgia was the most Armenian state, because Saakashvili is the figure who strengthened the Turkish-Azerbaijani factor in Georgia. Saakashvili’s Georgia is about what Armenia should not be like. That is why he supports Armenia. Saakashvili is a good example of how Western elites can use someone and throw them away. If guided by Saakashvili’s advice, Nikol Pashinyan will find himself in Saakashvili’s situation, and Armenia will face an ontological problem.
- What is important is not what Nikol Pashinyan thinks about Armenian-Russian relations, what is important is what they think about it there. Nikol Pashinyan and Ararat Mirzoyan are very similar to those women and men who are caught in the act, they say we are breaking up, they answer that we don’t want to break up. They are the ones who say that the moment of decision to leave the EAEU has not yet come, so they have already decided there.
- Aliyev is trying to make the subject of Azerbaijanis coming to Armenia, “Western Azerbaijan” part of the international agenda.
- Aliyev, an educated and constructive friend of Pashinyan, says that peace is not an empty paper that you sign and it is confirmed. At the helm of power in Baku sits someone who understands international relations very well.
- Circles close to the government generate the idea to create a criminal prosecution tool against those oppositionists who will talk about Azerbaijanis coming to Armenia. They threaten to initiate a case under Article 297. It is the article of the Criminal Code under which Armen Grigoryan was arrested and later died in court for spreading domestic hatred.
- If the Constitution is changed at the request of Azerbaijan, then there will be demands for enclaves, settling Azerbaijanis here, and strengthening their rights with legislative mechanisms – Azerbaijani demands. I recently visited Tigranashen, which Pashinyan will hand over. The school is closed in that village, and the population is leaving. They talk about silver. It does not have the same strategic importance for us as Tigranashen and the 3 villages of Tavush, if we lose them, we will be under siege.:
- I, Andranik Manukyan, Ararat Zurabyan, Kokobelyan were there when Nikol got under the table out of fear, when he thought he could see Tsarukyan’s glare. He will answer for this insolent vocabulary about Gagik Tsarukyan. Let him think about his future, which he will definitely spend with his wife, in Nairi Hunanyan’s cell:
- Basically, the Moldovan script is fully implemented in Armenia. We have not yet witnessed the filtering of parties, I have no doubt, we will see it. When Nikol Pashinyan saw that the normal campaign did not bring votes, he was advised to put all influential parties in one basket and name it the Three-Headed Party of War. But this didn’t work either. This caused Nikol Pashinyan’s nervousness. Now his curators are giving him the most wrong advice: to filter at least one of the leading parties. But this will be an irreversible fatal mistake for him, because whoever he removes, his electorate will not go, sit at home, but will go, his vote give to any of the opposition forces in the field, besides, it will create a revolutionary situation.
- June 7 is the last chance for Nikol Pashinyan to leave the country. after that he will not be given that chance again. If he keeps power with madness, it will be very short-lived. 2026 will be the last year of Nikol Pashinyan’s rule. The opposition, of course, is ready for a street fight. If Pashinyan commits total lies on June 7, I definitely say that he will get a revolution: The opposition will not go home. Let the government not have that hope. In the case of the Moldovan scenario, Nikol Pashinyan will receive an Armenian revolution:
- There is information that after the military parade, Pashinyan will leave military equipment in Hraparak to be used against the public if necessary. For 3 days, that equipment was filled like an ownerless property in the section leading from the stadium to Hagtanak bridge. Let them go and see. So this weaponry is not so useful that it is not important for possible spies.
- One of Pashinyan’s biggest vices is the contrast between two symbols of the most important importance for our nation: Ararat and Aragats.
- If today’s status quo is maintained, Iran will not tolerate the creation of American infrastructure under its nose, along its border. I would advise the illiterates of CP to listen to the interview of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Overchuk to TASS, where he stated that Russia and Iran will not allow the collapse of the status quo provided by the Turkmencha Treaty.
- Trump is a man with business acumen. He gets his share, then washes his hands. That’s what happened in the case of Ukraine, that’s what will happen in the case of Armenia. In this case, if Pashinyan is re-elected, Armenia will become Lebanon, a foreign political consortium, in which many countries have a stake, and when they cannot reach an agreement on that stake, a civil war begins. And Nikol Pashinyan has been synonymous with war since 2019:
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RFE/RL – Russia Imposes More Curbs On Armenian Imports
Russia announced on Thursday “temporary restrictions” on the import of more products from Armenia, stepping up economic pressure on the Armenian government accused by it of pursuing an anti-Russian foreign policy.
The measure will come into force on Saturday and apply to Armenian vegetables and strawberry exported to Russia in large quantities. The state agricultural watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor claimed to have found dangerous “quarantined objects” in them during an inspection of Armenian greenhouse conducted this week. It accused relevant Armenian authorities of failing to take action over similar violations of sanitary norms detected by it earlier this year.
This and other Russian government agencies also cited sanitary grounds for imposing similar curbs on Armenian cut flowers and banning Armenia’s most popular brand of mineral water late last week. They also slapped a separate ban on wine and brandy produced by three Armenian companies.
In a clearly related development, the Russian government threatened on Wednesday to stop supplying natural gas to Armenia at a significant discount if Yerevan continues to gravitate towards the European Union. These moves come amid Russian leaders’ intensifying criticism of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian that followed two European summits held in Yerevan early this month.
President Vladimir Putin said on May 9 that Yerevan should choose “as soon as possible” between seeking to join the EU and remaining part of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), a Russian-led trade bloc that guarantees Armenian exporters’ tariff-free access to Russia’s market. Putin is expected to raise the matter during an EEU summit in Kazakhstan on Friday. Pashinian will not attend the summit ostensibly because of being busy campaigning for Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary elections.
The Armenian premier continued to downplay the Russian sanctions on Thursday, saying that he can “find solutions to all issues through constructive dialogue” and will not leave the EEU despite his European integration drive. At the same time, he again insisted that their potential impact on the Armenian economy, heavily dependent on Russia for trade and energy, could not be devastating.
“I do not see any threat to Armenia’s developing economy. On the contrary, unlimited opportunities are now opening up for Armenia’s economy,” he told reporters.
Pashinian singled out the planned opening of a U.S.-transit corridor for Azerbaijan through Armenia. He claimed that it will give a huge economic boost to his country.
Russia is Armenia’s leading commercial partner, having accounted for over 36 percent of its foreign trade last year. Armenian farmers, agribusiness firms and alcoholic beverage makers are particularly reliant on the Russian market.
Other Armenian companies and individual entrepreneurs take advantage of Western sanctions against Moscow by re-exporting large amounts of Western-made goods to Russia. This has been a key driving force behind robust economic growth recorded in Armenia since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“Up to 98 percent of Armenian agricultural exports and almost 80 percent of strong alcoholic beverages go to the Russian market,” the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, emphasized on Thursday.
Zakharova dismissed Pashinian’s and other Armenian officials’ assurances that they do not want to ruin relations with Moscow. She said Yerevan is reaching “strategic agreements” with Western powers that have “declared a real hybrid war on Russia.”
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Armenia Showcases New Weapons In ‘Pre-Election’ Parade
Armenia demonstrated on Thursday new weapons acquired by it from India, France, China and Iran in recent years during a military parade in Yerevan seen by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s critics as a pre-election publicity stunt.
The parade took place on the 108th anniversary of the proclamation of the first independent Armenian republic that followed centuries of foreign rule. The anniversary is a public holiday called Republic Day.
Hundreds of Armenian soldiers marched through Yerevan’s central Republic Square, followed by columns of mostly non-Russian military hardware. It included air-defense, artillery and rocket systems purchased from India in multimillion-dollar arms deals signed since 2022 as well as French CAESAR self-propelled howitzers and Bastion armored vehicles.
CAESR is one of the most advanced artillery systems of its kind in the world. A French-Armenian contract signed two years ago reportedly called for the delivery 36 such howitzers to the Armenian army.
The army also revealed the acquisition of AD-08 Majid, a short-range air-defense system designed and manufactured by neighboring Iran. It is apparently the first Iranian weapon ever supplied to Armenia. Also demonstrated were Chinese-made CH-4 long-range drones as well as various types of smaller attack and reconnaissance drones manufactured by Armenian defense companies.
“Today we present to you Armenia’s new army with new weapons, new uniforms and a new ideology,” Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said in a speech delivered at the start of the parade. “The core of this ideology is the following: the only task of the army is to defend the internationally recognized sovereign territory of Armenia.”
Russia had long been Armenia’s principal supplier of weapons and ammunition. The Armenian government has been looking for alternative sources of weaponry due to its growing tensions with Moscow and the continuing war in Ukraine that absorbs the bulk of military hardware manufactured in Russia.
Pashinian claimed that the arms acquisitions showcased during the parade were made possible by his controversial decision in 2022 to recognize Azerbaijani sovereignty over Nagorno-Karabakh. His political opponents and other critics maintain that the move paved the way for Azerbaijan’s full recapture of Karabakh in 2023, which forced the region’s entire ethnic Armenian population to flee to Armenia. They also say Pashinian has failed to rebuild Armenia’s armed forces since their defeat in the 2020 war with Azerbaijan.
The previous demonstrations of Armenian military power had been timed to coincide with the country’s main Independence Day marked on September 21. Opposition leaders say Pashinian deliberately staged the latest parade on Republic Day in a bid to increase his chances of winning parliamentary elections slated for June 7.
“The context of the parade is that the current prime minister and his entourage, who humiliate our soldiers, their families and war veterans on a daily basis, are trying to hide their failures of the last six years behind the backs of our heroic soldiers,” Arman Tatoyan, who leads one of the opposition parties running in the elections, charged in a video message to citizens.
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RFE/RL – Trump Endorses Pashinian For Reelection
U.S. President Donald Trump endorsed Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian ahead of Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary elections on Thursday, citing his commitment to opening a U.S.-run transit corridor for Azerbaijan.
“Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, of Armenia, a great friend and Leader, is making his Country strong, wealthy, and very secure! Nikol completely shares my vision of PEACE and PROSPERITY for Armenia and the entire South Caucasus region,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.
He pointed out that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan initialed on Tuesday a fresh U.S.-Armenian agreement on practical modalities of the planned Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP).
“Soon, the United States and Armenia will break ground together on the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity, which will transform the South Caucasus, and help our wonderful American Energy Companies gain access from Central Asia all the way to the United States. For these reasons, Nikol has my COMPLETE and TOTAL Endorsement for Re-Election on June 7, 2026,” he wrote.
Pashinian was quick to thank Trump for his “high appraisal and friendly words.”
U.S. Vice President JD Vance likewise endorsed the Armenian premier when he visited Yerevan in February. Vance said Pashinian’s reelection is essential for the implementation of a U.S.-Armenian agreement on the TRIPP reached during an Armenian-Azerbaijani summit hosted by Trump last August.
Rubio mentioned his short trip to Yerevan and the initialing of the follow-up deal on the TRIPP during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Wednesday.
“We are seeing the emergence of a great new relationship with Armenia that really had grown stagnant for a long period of time,” he said.
Although Rubio stopped short of explicitly endorsing Pashinian, his hour-long stay in the Armenian capital was construed by local commentators as a show of pre-election support for Armenia’s current leadership. Former President Robert Kocharian, who leads one of the three main opposition groups running in the elections, accused Washington of meddling in the race.
“I don’t think that the United States has significant interests in Armenia,” claimed Kocharian. “Their only interest is to take control of our border with Iran and to hurt Russia, to do everything to ensure that Russia is replaced in this region by Turkey.”
For his part, Pashinian has repeatedly branded his election challengers as Russian “agents” and “spies” on the campaign trail. Moscow has not openly voiced support for any of them, despite ratcheting up pressure on Yerevan over its pro-Western foreign policy.
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Military parade in Yerevan highlights new capabilities and diversified defense
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in his speech at the Republic Day military parade that the Armenian Armed Forces would showcase their new arsenal, uniforms, and doctrine at the event.
“The core of this doctrine is the following: the army’s sole mission is to defend the internationally recognized sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia, and our army should not be used outside Armenia’s internationally recognized territory, except for peacekeeping missions carried out on the basis of international treaties. This approach has made possible what you will see today,” Pashinyan said before the parade began.
According to him, prior to 2022, international markets for weapons and military equipment were largely closed or difficult to access for Armenia, as international partners refused to supply arms, arguing that they were convinced Armenia would use them outside its internationally recognized territory.
“Only after the agreements reached in Prague on October 6, 2022, when Armenia and Azerbaijan recognized each other’s territorial integrity based on the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration, did the international arms market open up for Armenia,” the Armenian Prime Minister said.
At the military parade, which he described as a report to citizens, weaponry and military equipment produced by seven countries are presented, Pashinyan said.
“This geography of military-technical cooperation is the result of policies based on the ideology of ‘Real Armenia’,” Pashinyan added.
He described domestically produced weapons and military equipment as one of the key pillars of the parade. He said that the domestic defense industry is taking its first but confident steps toward securing a stable position in the international market.
“Since 2022, the Government of the Republic of Armenia has invested around 170 billion drams in the military-industrial complex, and today we have results we can be proud of,” the Prime Minister concluded.
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Armenia displays multiple rocket launchers, air defense systems at military pa
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, in his speech at the Republic Day military parade in Yerevan on Thursday, highlighted the ongoing reforms in the armed forces initiated by his administration.
Speaking about strengthening the country’s defensibility, he specifically pointed to newly built, modern “fortified regions.”
A fortified region is a term used to describe a secure defensive installation of the armed forces featuring engineered fortifications.
“An important factor in strengthening Armenia’s defense capability is also several dozen fortified regions, which are fortresses meeting the requirements of the 21st century and engineering masterpieces along the state border of the Republic of Armenia,” Pashinyan said.
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Pashinyan highlights military reforms and expanded social guarantees for servi
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, in his speech at the Republic Day military parade in Yerevan, pointed out the reformed social guarantees system for servicemembers initiated as part of the transformation of the Armenian military.
He highlighted the certification program for servicemembers, as well as the “Homeland Defender” service option, which enables conscripts to sign up for contract service and receive multiple benefits.
“Today, it is also a source of pride that the parade includes service members who have demonstrated their high combat readiness through voluntary certification, as well as participants of the Homeland Defender program, who are key contributors to the transition from a conscript to a professional army. The transformation of the Armenian Armed Forces is proceeding at a rapid pace, and the system of social guarantees for servicemen plays an important role in this process. Today in the Armenian military there are privates earning a salary of 700,000 drams, and the process of increasing remuneration through voluntary certification cycles will continue,” the Prime Minister said.
According to him, service members participating in the “Homeland Defender” program will receive an additional 5 million drams as a bonus upon completing their five-year contract service.
Pashinyan also stated that cadets of the Vazgen Sargsyan Military Academy, who currently receive a stipend of up to 175,000 drams during their studies, will, upon successfully graduating from the military educational institution and being commissioned as officers, receive government-issued housing purchase certificates calculated based on Yerevan prices.
“Thus, the housing problem of our officer corps, which has largely remained unresolved since the early 2000s, will receive a fundamental solution. Very recently, the Cabinet adopted a decision to resolve the housing issues of around 2,850 families registered on the Ministry of Defense housing waiting list since the early 2000s within the next four years. The state program for serving personnel to acquire housing is also ongoing and will be expanded in the near future,” the Prime Minister added.
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Pashinyan highlights defense overhaul, new doctrine at Republic Day parade
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan highlighted the ongoing military reforms and the transformation of the armed forces in his speech before the Republic Day military parade began on Thursday in Yerevan.
The event was attended by President Vahagn Khachaturyan, other top government officials and military officers, foreign ambassadors, as well as members of the public.
Pashinyan said that the military parade is a report to citizens on reforms.
The Prime Minister highlighted the transformation of the Armenian Armed Forces, including new doctrine, equipment, training systems, and social guarantees for servicemembers. He emphasized that the army’s mission is strictly the defense of Armenia’s internationally recognized territory, alongside participation in peacekeeping missions.
“This Republic Day in 2026 is being marked in a completely new historical context. After nearly 35 years of conflict, peace has been established between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan. Peace is what the First Republic of Armenia lacked in order to preserve and develop its independence, and the absence of peace became the key reason why the three countries of the South Caucasus, after declaring independence in 1918, successively lost that independence in 1920,” Pashinyan said.
He continued: “Historical memories about the fate of the First Republic of Armenia have played an important role in the peace-building process, and today we are overcoming the complex of the ‘temporariness of the state’ inherited from the First Republic period, adopting an agenda of state’s eternity, guided by the logic that the Republic of Armenia must exist forever. This means that in all situations we must remain focused on the interests of the state, when the state and its interests—its security, freedom, and prosperity—become the key point of reference for actions and decisions, and the state, in turn, becomes an instrument for ensuring the security, freedom, and prosperity of its citizens. This concept of the rise of the state guides us, and we are following this path.
The Republic of Armenia is following this path, and the established peace, its further institutionalization, the development and strengthening of the state’s legal foundations, transforming Armenia from a deadlock of conflict into a Crossroads of Peace—including through the implementation of the TRIPP project—as well as ensuring the security, freedom, and prosperity of its citizens, are our strategic priorities.
Education, which we have declared a “strategy of strategies,” is of crucial importance for the realization of these goals. Deepening our understanding of the state also leads us to the conclusion that in conditions of peace, the most important state institution is the army, and today the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia are not a factor of war, but a factor of peace, because a country without a capable and strong army can become an attractive target for aggression. We cannot allow ourselves to be in such a situation, and today it is our honor, on the occasion of the 2026 Republic Day, to present to the people of the Republic of Armenia the results we have achieved since 2022.
Today we present to you the new Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia—equipped with new weaponry, new uniforms, and a new doctrine. The core of this doctrine is the following: the army’s sole mission is to defend the internationally recognized sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia, and our army should not be used outside Armenia’s internationally recognized territory, except for peacekeeping missions carried out on the basis of international treaties.
It is this approach that has made it possible for the Republic of Armenia to have what you will see today. Prior to 2022, international markets for weapons and military equipment were largely closed or difficult to access for the Republic of Armenia, as international partners refused to supply Armenia with arms, arguing that they were convinced Armenia would use them outside its internationally recognized territory.
And only after the agreements reached in Prague on October 6, 2022, when Armenia and Azerbaijan recognized each other’s territorial integrity based on the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration, did the international arms market open up for Armenia.
In today’s parade report, weaponry and military equipment produced by around seven countries will pass in formation, and this geography of military-technical cooperation is the result of policies based on the ideology of “Real Armenia.”
One of the key pillars of the parade report is the weaponry and military equipment produced in the Republic of Armenia, which is taking its first but confident steps toward securing a stable position in the international market.
Since 2022, the Government of the Republic of Armenia has invested around 170 billion drams in the military-industrial complex, and today we have results we can be proud of.
An important factor in strengthening the defense capability of the Republic of Armenia is also several dozen fortified regions, which are fortresses meeting the requirements of the 21st century along the state border of the Republic of Armenia and are engineering masterpieces.
Today, it is also a source of pride that the parade includes service members who have demonstrated their high combat readiness through voluntary certification, as well as participants of the Homeland Defender program, who are key contributors to the transition from a conscript to a professional army.
Dear compatriots,
The transformation of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia is proceeding at a rapid pace, and the system of social guarantees for servicemembers plays an essential role in this process.
Today in Armenia there are privates serving in our military receiving a salary of 700,000 drams, and this process of increasing remuneration through voluntary certification cycles will continue. Service members participating in the Homeland Defender program will also receive an additional 5 million drams as a bonus upon completing their five-year contract service.
Cadets of the Vazgen Sargsyan Military Academy, who currently receive a stipend of up to 175,000 drams during their studies, will, upon successfully graduating from the military educational institution and being commissioned as officers, receive government-issued housing purchase certificates calculated based on Yerevan prices. Thus, the housing problem of our officer corps, which has largely remained unresolved since the early 2000s, will receive a fundamental solution.
Very recently, the Cabinet adopted a decision to resolve the housing issues of around 2,850 families registered on the Ministry of Defense housing waiting list since the early 2000s within the next four years. The state program for providing mortgage loan support for serving personnel to acquire housing is also ongoing and will be expanded in the near future.
Dear people, state officials, today’s military parade is a report to the citizens on what the Government of the Republic of Armenia has done in recent years to strengthen Armenia’s defense capability. But this report is also addressed to our martyrs, through whose sacrifice and lives the Republic of Armenia is today more of a state than ever, more independent than ever, more sovereign than ever, and more secure than ever.
Let us honor the memory of all our martyrs with a moment of silence, as well as with artillery salutes,” he said, followed by cannon salute salvos in honor of the fallen servicemembers.
“Armenia has learned the lessons of history, Armenia has learned the lessons of military history, and today you see—and will see—the tangible result of all of this: the new Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia, with new weaponry and equipment, new uniforms, a new doctrine, a new emblem, a new mindset, and enhanced combat readiness.
I would like to express my gratitude to all officials, servicemembers, private sector companies, and all our international partners who have contributed to the formation of our new army.
I would also like to thank all citizens working in Armenia, creating value, paying legally prescribed taxes, and demanding and receiving fiscal receipts, all those whose generated taxes allow the Republic of Armenia to afford a new, modern, capable, and strong army.
Dear people, dear citizens of the Republic of Armenia,
I congratulate all of us on the occasion of Republic Day.
The Republic of Armenia must exist forever.
Glory to the martyrs, and long live the Republic of Armenia,” Pashinyan concluded.
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Republic Day parade in Yerevan honors fallen servicemembers with cannon salute
The Republic Day military parade in Yerevan featured a cannon salute in honor of all the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for Armenia.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, in his speech at the parade, described it as a “report” to citizens and announced a moment of silence for the fallen heroes.
“Today’s military parade is a report to the citizens on what the Government of the Republic of Armenia has done in recent years to strengthen Armenia’s defense capability. But this report is also addressed to our martyrs, through whose sacrifice and lives the Republic of Armenia is today more of a state than ever, more independent than ever, more sovereign than ever, and more secure than ever.
Let us honor the memory of all our martyrs with a moment of silence, as well as with artillery salutes,” Pashinyan said, with cannons then firing salute charges in honor of the fallen servicemembers.
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Armenian Armed Forces unveil modernized arsenal at Republic Day parade
The Armenian military on Thursday displayed its upgraded and reformed arsenal during a parade held on the occasion of Republic Day. Defense Minister Suren Papikyan and Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Lt. General Edward Asryan, inspected troops from various branches of the Armed Forces before the parade began.
The highlights of the parade included the first-ever glimpse of the new arsenal, including defense equipment such as multiple rocket launchers, air defense systems, armored personnel carriers, and artillery bought from up to seven countries as part of growing partnerships. The armaments also included domestic defense industry production.
The troops wore the brand-new uniforms. The Air Force then conducted a flyover. The Honor Guard performed drills and maneuvers, followed by a ceremonial peace dove release by children.
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