In Georgia, any citizen who has turned 18 years old and wants to start or expand a small business receives support from the “Create in Georgia” program. Loans are 7-8%. Narek Karapetyan, a member of the board of the “Strong Armenia” party, wrote about this.

And what percentage are your loans in Armenia? 14-15%?

In Georgia, the country is run by a businessman, and in Armenia, a yellow journalist,” he wrote.

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Nikol Pashinyan’s campaignn: continues to experience “unpleasant surprises” for him and his team. The next episode was today․ The sister of Hrant Papikyan, a high-ranking officer who forcibly disappeared during the 44-day war, approached Nikol Pashinyan during the campaign and said․

“What I have to say, you have heard many times, but I thank God for the opportunity giveto look into your eyes from such a close distance and say that you have stolen my homeland. You stole my homeland, you continue to steal my homeland. You have destroyed an entire young generation of the nation. You stole my child, you stole my brother, you stole my brother, you stole my joy.

Do you know?՝ how many forcibly disappeared and or missing high-ranking officers do we have?՞ has a piecen:c. You massacred us.”

Of course, this was accompanied by Pashinyan and his teammates with reversals, and later also Nikol Pashinyann:lost his self-control and began to drag the lady.

“Dyou will show up՞c ․․․ Doctor of Medical Sciences, where՞Where do you work?՞do you work?, we created health insurance, we created a state. So, then, listen, listen!․․․ What am I destroying? If you’re Rob, eh?s: I’m robin too to untie I am also from Kalugato untie I’m going to talk to Gago and Serge too I’m going to break it, I’m going to break it to Rob and I will take itNikol Pashinyan shouted.

Citizen responded․ “I’m an Armenian, you’re the wrong person.”

Pashinyan is the samen: he continued with a shout․ “Rob is going to sit down, I will kill Rob, Kalugatsi isI will die․․․»։

Then he pulled that woman’s hand and added․ “Don’t go away for a minute․․․․ that maskc:who, with a mask, that Karabakh with an accent speak are they are the fugitives, the fugitives, F:threer:in: f:they fled to war with horsagefrom․․․․․ I’m going to kill you, I’m not going to kill you, I’ll kill you, I’ll choke you too. you destroyed You robbed through Karabakh, and I saythat Masked people with Karabakh accent spreading something․․․video you runaway puppies take off your mask take off your maskwho, oh rogues, ay, fugitives, ay, ay, our child alone before the enemy․․․, with a Karabakh accent, mask they spread the video, we say you are cowardsare you hungry those who fled from the battlefield, take yours masktake off your mask, Rob puppies, Serge puppies, Gago puppies, kapuppy dogs how manyn:I’m going to eatd:, pcs– h:hate masks kokheloWhat are the appropriate places?»:

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The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, referred to the noisy incident recorded in the Arabkir community today, when Nikol Pashinyan attacked an Armenian woman who did not share his political views. In her Telegram channel, Zakharova quoted the part of the incident that appeared in the Russian press, writing:

“The visit of Macron and Zelensky to Yerevan was not without consequences. “European values” are obvious. Or stamped on his face.”

Let’s remind that today, during the campaign in Arabkir community, Nikol Pashinyan simply attacked his political opponent’s wife, in response to the latter’s political accusations, starting to accuse and threaten.

Later, it turned out that the woman is the sister of the missing officer Hrant Papikyan and the mother of lawyer, human rights defender Tatevik Soghoyan.

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While the domestic political life of Armenia lives in the hot pre-election mode, overshadowing many foreign political issues, the unprecedented situation created in Armenian-Russian relations continues to be widely discussed among political circles and society. People doing business in Russia are especially concerned about the issue, who may be targeted by Russia’s economic sanctions and restrictions.

The other day, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov referred to Armenia’s European aspirations, declaring that the European Union is pulling Armenia into its orbit, and Yerevan is in danger of losing all its privileges within the EAEU framework. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during the press conference held on the results of his participation in the BRICS ministerial meeting in New Delhi that Russia has close but not easy relations with Armenia.

“Those relations are close, allied. But at the same time, they are not easy,” Sergey Lavrov said, asserting that the West is trying to subjugate Armenia, like some other CIS members, “to break Armenia’s mutually beneficial economic, trade, and investment ties with its partners in the CIS and EAEU.”

“It is true, I heard that Prime Minister Pashinyan mentioned that he is busy with pre-election affairs and will not be able to go to the meeting of the leaders of the Eurasian Economic Union. It would be sad, of course, because this is a good opportunity to discuss the things that are hanging in the air,” the Russian Foreign Minister added.

Lavrov noted that EAEU member states will be able to discuss the issues related to attempts to bring Armenia into the sphere of influence of the West at the unification summit to be held in May. “Now, I think, will be an optimal opportunity to discuss the problems that arise due to the fact that the European Union insists on bringing Armenia into its sphere of influence, including at the cost of risking the privileges that Armenia has under the Eurasian Economic Union.

The opportunity to honestly and sincerely discuss all these issues will appear at the end of the last week of May, when the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, the summit, will take place in Kazakhstan,” Lavrov said. This was followed by the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk’s reference to the topic, who noted that at some stage the Armenian leadership will have to choose between the European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), if it makes such a decision.

“There they talk about the desire to get closer to the European Union. We have repeatedly said that membership in EAEU and EU are incompatible. Armenia also understands this very well, its leaders also talk about it, that these things are incompatible. At some stage, they will have to make such a choice, if they decide to make such a choice,” he told “Russia-Islamic World. within the KazanForum” forum.

Earlier, the Russian president spoke about Armenia’s European integration aspirations, saying that Russia will accept any decision of the Armenian people. He also spoke about the possibility of holding a referendum on the issue. This was the second reference of the Russian President to the topic after the meeting with Pashinyan on April 1.

168.amin a conversation with Russian analyst Vladimir Yevseyev said that each country should decide its own foreign policy, which also applies to Armenia. However, according to him, the Russian side, as a partner of the Republic of Armenia in EAEU, wants to understand how Armenia’s European integration agenda will be combined with Eurasian integration, when they have many contradictions.

In addition, according to him, they are not only not compatible, but also there is a complicated geopolitical situation, and Russia, EAEU and the EU are in opposite camps.

“I think that all references from Russia are aimed at him in order to bring clarity to the existing situation. It is clear that Armenia can decide its foreign policy as it wants, but Russia can decide that some issues are not compatible with the Russian foreign policy or EAEU.

However, the EAEU is a multi-member structure, and Russia suggests that the member states discuss this issue and give their opinion on the situation. I think the issues will be discussed in EAEU with the participation of all member states. “This is the first case when an EAEU member state wishes to join the EU, and this should be discussed, all countries should express their opinion,” Yevseyev said.

However, according to him, the issue is clear for Russia. According to him, the Russian Federation does not accept this issue both politically, because it is in confrontation with the EU, and economically, because the EU and EAEU are different economic zones, different regulations apply.

“If RA really begins to approach the EU trade zone with its regulations, then RA-EAEU relations in EAEU will no longer be able to function normally. Therefore, this is a question that should be discussed so that problems do not arise during the work,” Yevseyev said.

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Another incident occurred today during Nikol Pashinyan’s campaign in the Arabkir administrative district. he was caught missing in action during the 44-day war with the sister of lieutenant colonel Hrant Papikyan, an experienced military doctor. During the 44-day war, Papikyan was the head of the military unit’s medical service stationed in the direction of Hadrut.

In the context of this incident, Tigran Avinyan, the mayor of Yerevan, the candidate for deputy of the CP Party, in a conversation with Factor TV, referred to the topic of those who “flew” from Artsakh during the 44-day war of 2020.

“Those who really flew from Karabakh are speaking such loud things today. I was there almost from the first day during the 44-day Karabakh war. I know the actors very well: who was there, what was said, who ran away, and those who ran away now their languages ​​have become kilometers long. he noted.

Avinyan replied to the retort: ​​why are they not being held criminally liable?

“Unfortunately, in these specific cases, I am not sure that people can be held criminally responsible for volunteering to escape. But the fact that they almost certainly had nothing to do with the real struggle, the war, and now they are talking about the war and the victims, having absolutely no right to do so…

I was the deputy prime minister of the country at that time, and I was in Karabakh almost until the last day, my car was shot, it remained under Shushi, my driver was injured, 9 of my protocol officers were wounded on the spot, the head of my office was a participant in the night fighting in Shushi. And in fact, we know the Karabakh war very well, let the places be feared, ignored and fought. They will scold, ignore, bite their tongues, they have nothing to do with Karabakh or the Karabakh war, they have not given a finger. Maybe they did the opposite during the entire fight.”

It should be noted that about a month ago, former RA Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan addressed Nikol Pashinyan in the National Assembly, saying:

“Mr. Pashinyan says that the generals ran away. The leadership of the National Assembly and the deputies came to the place where there was a need for reservists who had left the field of combat for one reason or another. Meanwhile, the deputies did not hesitate to go, at least for a few hours, to work with the “mob resource” (reservists, – M.P.). Who ran away now? did the generals run away or the parliamentarians who were there? And I know some of them.”

Another issue is that Seyran Ohanyan did not give names. Instead, we recalled a few episodes and names, of course, we did not ignore Tigran Avinyan either, whose role we reflected on in the context of the 44-day war still in 2023.

In another article where we talked about Avinyan’s role in the 44-day war, we did not miss the episode that during the war, On September 30, 2020, Deputy Prime Minister Tigran regarding the approval of the program on the installation of photovoltaic plants implemented by the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund Avinyan is a decision made:

Then already Days before the fall of Shushi, on November 5, 2020, the then president of Artsakh, Araik Harutyunyan, on his Facebook page had reported that is in Shushi, and Tigran Avinyan was also seen in the published photos.

By the way, Tigran Avinyan mentions the head of his office in the context of the war. We are talking about Serzh-Varag Siseryan, who once made accusations against Seyran Ohanyan., that in 2020 on the evening of November 5, Seyran Ohanyan left Shushi without even informing the last group members stationed there.

In other words, government representatives were in Shushi and were involved in the operations there, but today only the former commander of the Armed Forces, General Mikael Arzumanyan, is blamed for not keeping Shushi.

By the way, the representatives of the government also participated in the famous counter strike operation discussion, which perhaps they did not have the right to. Can Tigran Avinyan say why an action plan doomed to failure was approved, or on what basis was the order to take back the fortress city after the fall of Shushi on November 7, and did the presence of random people in command posts and other places not affect the outcome of the war? And maybe those presences were needed for some “files”?

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Tigran Avinyan, the mayor of Yerevan, a member of the KP board, engaged in an active pre-election campaign, who for several years has not been able to cope with the city’s management, transport reforms, which during this time stood out, for example, with 7 million 650,000 drams by purchasing a plane ticket, and recently he is busy with prints on “t-shirt-pants”, he closed the year 2025 with an income of around 58 million drams.

But about all this in more detail. Tigran Avinyan submitted the 2025 declaration of property, income, expenses and interests to the Corruption Prevention Commission, according to which he actually owns only a private residential house built on a plot of land and has only one 2021 VOLKSWAGEN brand car, which he bought in 2022. Instead, Avinyan’s accounts and income are quite noticeable.

The mayor mentioned the bank account balances, which were 13,711,998 drams at the beginning of the year, and 5,858,209 drams at the end of the year, the monetary equivalent of ADA Cardano, Ethereum, Bitcoin cryptocurrencies, however, he did not make public. The cash funds of the CP official amounted to 24,430,000 drams at the beginning of the year, and 20,887,335 drams at the end of the year.

Tigran Avinyan’s income of 57,671,356 drams for the reporting year was generated from other incomes of 26,523,000 drams received from the Poolin platform, remuneration for work received from the municipal administrative institution “Yerevan Municipality Staff” and/or other payments equal to it, first in the amount of 1,936,152 drams, then also in the amount of 29,212,204 drams.

In the “Participation in commercial organizations” section of the statement, Avinyan mentioned the shares of his wife Mariam Pahlavunu’s “BARUR” and “LAV PRODUCTS” organizations: 100 and 34 percent, respectively.

The declarant’s membership in non-commercial organizations and representation in their management, administrative or supervisory bodies; Avinyan is the chairman of the board of trustees of the “National Polytechnic University of Armenia” Foundation, the Renewable Energy and Energy Saving Fund of Armenia.

What did Avinyan’s wife, Pahlavuni, declare?․

Tigran Avinyan’s wife, Mariam Pahlavuni, also mentioned in her declaration about the real estate that she has actually owned for 90 or more days. According to the declaration, the mayor’s wife has one car, a 2017 RANGE ROVER, which she bought in 2020.

The value of shares acquired by the mayor’s wife in 2022 and 2023 was 10,000 and 34,000 drams, several bank deposits at the beginning of the year were as follows: 14 million drams, 7.5 million drams, 25 million and 12 million drams. At the end of the year, the balances of 1,568,515 AMD, 1,272,698 AMD and 4,242,328 AMD were reduced to zero or almost reduced to zero.

Tigran Avinyan’s wife’s income of around 5 million (4,976,465) drams for the reporting year was generated from the interest and other compensation received for loans or bank deposits with a total volume of 1,148,882 drams and 3,827,583 drams, which was her own salary from “BARUR” LLC, or a payment equal to it.

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The other day we have touched on The strategic significance of the occupied Kovsak, Zangelan for Azerbaijan, and how it came under the control of Azerbaijan.

On May 10, the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev visited the occupied city of Kovsakan (Zangelan), where he specially emphasized that it is located in the transport corridor, so it will become a transport center for Azerbaijan and the entire region.

“On our initiative, the construction of the bridge on the Iranian border has almost been completed, and now the construction of border-customs infrastructure and buildings is underway. Probably, in a few months they will also be ready for operation, and it will become an international transport corridor. Both railways and roads passing through here will be of great benefit because people will be provided with jobs there. And this will be a huge investment in the economy of Zangelan and, in general, Azerbaijan.

After the opening of the border with Armenia, the “Zangezur Corridor”, Zangelan will actually become the only region of our country that will have a border checkpoint with two neighboring countries. See how important it is. Because it is both the East-West corridor, a road that stretches from Nakhijevan through Turkey to Europe, and the North-South corridor, from Zangelan through Aghbend to Iran and the Persian Gulf, and from here through Nakhijevan and Julfa, back to the Persian Gulf. Thus, Zangelan will become an irreplaceable international center. This is how we see it, and this is exactly how it will be, because until now all our plans have come to life,” he elaborated.

Now in this case, can we say that Aliyev does not attach much importance to another direction at the moment, although Nikol Pashinyan has stated that the restoration of the railway passing through Ijevan is also being discussed. At the same time during the pre-election campaign he emphasized that there are “Azerbaijani villages” in Tavush, which must be surrendered, and we will receive Artsvashen, moreover, this places both in the process of demarcation and demarcation, and alludes to About the strategic deal with Aliyev, which he proposed much earlier.

The question is that if a demarcation is made in any direction, then you will get the property that belongs to you, which is under the control of Azerbaijan, in that direction.

We have talked more than once about the risks that the handing over of “enclave” villages will lead to, that it can destroy not only the internal communications of Tavush marz, but also put under attack the highway going to Bagratashen through Tavush, the Armenian-Georgian border, and the gas pipeline entering Armenia from Georgia, etc.

But since the issue is still relevant, and in practice they will still have to be addressed, 168.am-talked about this topic Shiraz Khachatryan, expert of “Henaket” analytical center Is the second stage of border demarcation in the direction of Tavush in Azerbaijan’s interest at the moment? If so, why? If not, why, when will it be necessary?

to return, does it have a purely political and moral significance, or can it? “Today, the Armenian-Azerbaijani border demarcation process is difficult to consider equal negotiations, it is more reminiscent of a series of unilateral concessions, where Baku gets everything it wants and when it wants. If we consider whether it is currently in Azerbaijan’s interest to start the second stage of border demarcation in the direction of Tavush, then the answer is unequivocal: Baku will take that step only when it serves its main maximalist goals.

According to me, Azerbaijan has no reason to hurry, because time works in its favor, and it can extract the fulfillment of another demand with dosed pressure.

In this context, the readiness of the Armenian side to hand over the villages of Tavush under the name of Ankalv, or Tigranashen in the south, is actually a strategic disaster for several reasons. first, the territories that the current authorities are going to hand over or exchange are of vital and strategic importance for us, because they control our interstate roads to Georgia, Iran, we have talked about this several times, secondly, they are destroying the defense structures formed in those territories.

And instead of the Armenian “occupied” lands in Tavush and Gegharkunik, promoting the topic of Artsvashen is, in fact, an information-political manipulation. Artsvashen is located in the depths of Azerbaijan, and in case of de jure getting it back, de facto settlement and security provision there will be almost impossible. And Azerbaijan refuses to even discuss the issue of withdrawing its troops from the sovereign territory of the RA, including Tavush, Syunik, Gegharkunik, Vayots Dzor.

I repeat, until now the process of demarcation and demarcation has been on Baku’s agenda, therefore, even if the process is activated at this moment, there is no basis for optimistic expectations. In other words, the issue of Artsvashen is, of course, not a purely emotional issue, but considering it equivalent in the logic of demarcation with the vital areas of Tavush, Syunik, Vayots Dzor is strategic blindness, political manipulation.”

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168TVof “Trigger” the guest of the program Russian political analyst, Strategic Culture Fund expert Andrey Areshev is:

During the program, the meeting of the leaders of the USA and China, the possible consequences for the region, the possibility of the resumption of military operations against Iran, as well as the expected visit of Vladimir Putin to Beijing were discussed.

Reference was also made to the topics of the 8th summit of the European Political Community in Armenia.

Particular attention was paid to the meeting between Putin and Nikol Pashinyan, the latest statements of the Russian President regarding Armenia, the future of Armenian-Russian relations, as well as the decision of the Russian Foreign Ministry to include Armenia in the list of unfriendly countries for Russian citizens.

During the program, the upcoming elections in Armenia and the possible developments of the internal political situation in the country were also discussed.

Hayk Derzyan

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