May 10, 2026
Davit Ananyan, member of the management board of the Unity Wings party, representative of the pre-election list, general director of the “DS-EY Consulting Group” company, former head of the RA State Revenue Committee (SRC), candidate of economic sciences.in the “Pressing” program also spoke about the regional visits of their team and the problems affecting the villagers.
“The people are primarily interested in the security of the country. They also raise issues related to agriculture, irrigation water, arable land, procurement issues. People are skeptical, disappointed. The people feel cheated and abandoned.
We see this clearly. It is unfortunate that a part of our people sincerely believes in Pashinyan’s theses that the former are responsible for this situation. In the event that Pashinyan is the greatest ex. But when you calmly explain to a person what is after what, even our compatriots who follow CP change their thinking, they understand everything very well.
Pashinyan’s blackmail with war does not work for the people of the villages, it works in the cities. Moreover, the higher the village is, the more sober is the thinking of its inhabitants,” said Davit Ananyan.
The latter noted that Pashinyan did not succeed in erasing Artsakh and patriotism among people.
“Our contacts show this. In general, our people do not accept the loss of Artsakh. And in many cases they demand us to say that we are going to bring back Artsakh. We explain that the priority today is the right of return of Artsakh residents, the protection of their other rights, and a dignified life. In such cases, we always tell our people that there is a time to throw the stones and collect the stones,” said Davit Ananyan.
Details in the video.
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RA does not want EU membership. Both Moscow and Br. know this very well
May 10, 2026
Political scientist Suren Sargsyan writes on his Facebook page.
“Armenia does not want membership of the European Union.
Moreover, they don’t want it neither in Moscow, nor in Brussels, nor in Washington, and even more so, not in Yerevan.
168: Understand, people… If you find Mount Ararat, it should be removed from passports
May 10, 2026
“Lessons” program the guest Former vice-chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia, doctor of law, professor, honored lawyer of the Republic of Armenia Artur Ghambaryan is.
The main theses of the interview are below.
- The current government has entered a stage when it fights against symbols and does so in an extremely efficient and competent manner. We need to figure out how to counter it effectively. Public indifference is worrying and these issues should become the subject of sociological study. The new generation, the youth, is indifferent to processes.
- These elections are elections between two opposing ideological wings. In a month we will see if the society is at peace with what is happening or not. We will see if the people choose the path of eradicating Mount Ararat and destroying national institutions, or another path.:
- The current government now says everything clearly, they do not hide anything, they say directly what they will do. Understand, people, you need to understand what ideology this political force supports. If you think that Mount Ararat should be removed from passports and everywhere, the fight against the Church should continue, go and vote for this government.
- It is not a secret for anyone that this government is known for its disinformation, obvious lies, but they directly state their intentions on many painful issues and do not hide them. Let me be understood correctly: I’m not saying this government is honest, I’m saying it’s sincere, they’re saying what they’re going to do.
- Is there any doubt that the provisions dedicated to the Church in the CP election program are unconstitutional… Of course not. They know this too, but they wrote so that later they would be elected, they would say that they gave me legitimacy to fight against the Church, it was written about this in my plan, and people elected me. Do we want our clergymen to be taken into custody again, attacks against the Church to continue, so let’s choose that after 2 months they will say that we are fulfilling the will of the people. Today, only the Church remains the only institution of resistance:
- A scientist, as a creative person, should be oppositional. The speech should not be one of praise, but one that highlights the problems of the system, critical.
- A scientific conference is organized in one of the universities, where one of the scientists offers a report on the state-church constitutional relations, the report is not included in the agenda, they say it is a political issue. This is a scientific institution. The authorities should have come and said: what have you put on the agenda? Then they talk about scientific freedom:
- State-church relations are not regulated by the Labor Code, but what did the court of Armavir marz do, we all saw. New realities are emerging that have deep roots.
- It is possible to meet with the head of the country, I would also meet, but with what agenda? This is the question.
- The Prime Minister says: “Is there a judge who won’t do what I say?” The judicial system did not respond, considering it a political statement. I do not expect judges to be heroes, Monte or Vazgen Sargsyan, but I expect judges to at least maintain the minimum threshold of justice. We are not saying to be in opposition to the current authorities, but there is a limit below which one cannot go down, and understanding that the act does not contain an obvious crime, as in the case of Mikael the priest or Samvel Karapetyan. How can a restraining order be applied to His Holiness?:
- A citizen’s car was stolen, the state, with its legal system, cannot bring it back in a criminal case, but that citizen is told that he must pay property tax. But thank God, there are judges who practice moral justice, and there are judges who take the opposite position.
- I am a supporter of the institution of juries. There are decisions for society to make:
- Life has many more patterns than legal responsibility. Those judges who easily make illegal arrest decisions should spend a few hours in penitentiary institutions and undergo training there.:
- There are people who may be literate, but in their personal type they are cowards, they do not have the ability to make decisions on their own. But there are also investigators, judges and prosecutors with a lack of knowledge whom I have also allowed to come out into the legal community as a lecturer. The filters should be much stricter. we also have a share of sin. That they are illiterate, how did it get there? They do not understand that the legal profession has a public component.
- The judicial system has no immune system. Judges really can’t defend themselves. Remember the case of judge Boris Bakhshiyan. Weren’t the judges the ones giving permission to arrest him? An apparently innocent man was allowed to be detained without evidence, and later the man was acquitted. The head of the government made an incorrect expression: “grieving judges”. Food for thought:
- Hope should not be placed on the citizen’s self-awareness or rationality. Electoral technologies should be implemented adequately.
- If the current government is re-elected, a new Constitution will be written, in which there will be no reference to the Declaration of Independence, there will be new regulations related to the coat of arms and the church. This is a result of the fact that there was no public uprising at the time. Would you ever think that there would be a fight against the ghost of Mount Ararat? Society must respond to this.
Details in the video.
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Turkish Press: Azerbaijan’s Aliyev slams EU observers, calling them ‘false he
Azerbaijan’s president on Sunday criticised EU observers stationed along the border with Armenia, saying they act “as if they are defending Armenia from us.”
According to the presidential press service, Ilham Aliyev said that there is “no need” to defend Armenia from Azerbaijan, underlining that “we achieved what we wanted” in border conflicts from several years ago.
“I said back then that if we fired a single shot … not a trace of them would remain. But they act as if they are defending Armenia from us,” he said during a meeting with families in Zangilan in the Karabakh region, which in 2020-2023 was liberated from nearly three decades of Armenian occupation.
He underlined that Baku “has no intention of destroying Armenia or depriving it of its independence.”
“Presenting themselves as false heroes at this event in Armenia — saying that they ‘stopped Azerbaijan, otherwise this aggressive Azerbaijan would have destroyed Armenia’ — is all nonsense. We have never had, do not have, and will not have such intentions unless further provocations are committed,” he said.
Aliyev also warned against anti-Azerbaijani forces within Armenia’s political sphere, saying renewed provocations could destabilise the region.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought a series of cross-border wars since the late 1980s, including most recently in 2023, when Baku liberated its territory of Karabakh.
In January 2023, the Council of the EU was established to secure the border areas of Armenia and “ensure an environment conducive to normalisation efforts between Armenia and Azerbaijan supported by the EU.”
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A batch of petroleum products was exported from Azerbaijan to Armenia.
As reported by the “Caucasian Knot,” on May 9, 479 tons of diesel fuel were exported from Azerbaijan to Armenia, along with a transit shipment of agricultural fertilizers from Russia. Thus, more than 27,000 tons of grain, 4,000 tons of fertilizer, 133 tons of aluminum, and 68 tons of buckwheat have already been transited from Russia to Armenia via Azerbaijan.
On December 18, 2025, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan delivered gasoline to Armenia for the first time. By May 3, more than 8,500 tons of diesel fuel, 979 tons of AI-92 gasoline, and 2,955 tons of AI-95 gasoline had been exported. The volumes of gasoline supplied are insignificant; these deliveries can be viewed primarily as a political gesture in the context of a peace settlement, Armenian economists previously noted.
Today, 16 railcars of diesel fuel were sent from Azerbaijan to Armenia, as well as a consignment of transit cargo from Russia – six railcars of fertilizer and four railcars of grain, APA reports.
Azerbaijan exported 986 tons of diesel fuel today. As of May 10, more than 9,000 tons of diesel fuel, 979 tons of AI-92 gasoline, and 2,955 tons of AI-95 gasoline have already been exported to Armenia, Report reports.
The transit freight cars sent today from the Bilajari station in the direction of Boyuk Kyasik contain 402 tons of fertilizer and 276 tons of grain, the agency writes.
The cars are leaving Azerbaijan first for Georgia, and from there, for Armenia. According to Yandex Maps, the Bilajari railway station is located in the Baku settlement of the same name, and the Boyuk Kyasik station, where trains depart, is in the Aghstafa region of Azerbaijan, near the border with Georgia’s Gardabani municipality.
As a reminder, in October 2025, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev announced the lifting of all restrictions on cargo transit to Armenia. In early November 2025, a cargo of Russian grain arrived in Armenia via Azerbaijan for the first time since the 1990s. The Armenian government noted that this fulfilled one of the agreements reached in the United States, which contributed to strengthening peace between Yerevan and Baku.
On August 8, 2025, Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a declaration on the cessation of hostilities at a meeting in Washington. US President Donald Trump stated that the key issue that had prevented the signing of a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan has been resolved: the issue of the Zangezur Corridor. The “Caucasian Knot” has prepared a report “Trump Route” (TRIPP): Transport Corridor through Armenia”.
On February 4, Aliyev and Pashinyan discussed the economic cooperation they had initiated at a meeting in the UAE and agreed to explore opportunities to expand trade. Although mutually beneficial, trade and economic cooperation between Azerbaijan and Armenia will be limited in the near future, analysts in Baku noted.
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Source: Caucasian Knot
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Putin threatened Armenia with a “Ukrainian scenario”: what is the reason?
Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin criticized Armenia and warned of the “inadmissibility” of a course towards European integration without agreement with the Kremlin, threatening a “Ukrainian scenario.”
He made this statement, according to Russian media reports, during a press conference on May 9.
Putin warned that such a policy could lead to a scenario similar to the events in Ukraine in 2014, implying a Russian armed invasion.
In his opinion, Armenia should take into account Moscow’s position on issues of European integration, which is why Putin considers it appropriate to hold a referendum. The dictator also stated that such a decision would be right both for the citizens of Armenia themselves and for the “main economic partner” – Russia.
“In my opinion, it would be right, both in relation to the population, the citizens of Armenia, and in relation to us, as the main economic partner, to decide as early as possible, for example, by holding a referendum,” Putin emphasized.
Kremlin Zugzwang: Putin is losing control of the Russian political system
At the same time, he added that although it is “not our business”, in principle it would be quite logical to hold a referendum and ask the citizens of Armenia what their choice would be. “Accordingly, we would draw the appropriate conclusions and follow the path of a soft, intelligent and mutually beneficial divorce,” the Kremlin leader noted.
At the same time, he warned of the possible consequences in the event of a different development of events, drawing a parallel with Ukraine. “We are now experiencing everything that is happening in the Ukrainian direction. And where did it start? With Ukraine’s accession or attempt to join the EU,” Putin said, emphasizing that all this later led to “the coup d’état, the Crimean history, the position of southeastern Ukraine and hostilities.”
As a reminder, the first-ever bilateral summit between Armenia and the European Union took place in Yerevan on May 5. The event is being attended by the Armenian leadership and top EU officials, including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa.
During the international summit in Yerevan, where leaders of democratic states and NATO leadership gathered, Ukraine and Armenia declared a transition to long-term cooperation. Political scientist Oleg Sahakyan analyzed the change in geopolitical accents in the region on the air of “Pryamoy”, pointing to the gradual displacement of Russian influence and the growth of Kyiv’s role as a security partner
It should be noted that on June 7, parliamentary elections will be held in Armenia, in which the country must decide whether to move closer to Europe or Russia. This state was until recently under the strong influence of the Russian Federation, and there is still a Russian military base with several thousand soldiers on its territory.
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Putin says Armenia EU membership referendum would be ‘logical’
The Russian president also envisioned Ukraine war’s end with Schröder in negotiation role
At a Saturday press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed a possible end to the Ukraine war, Gerhard Schröder’s potential role as a negotiator, and likened Armenia’s EU bid to what he called the start of “everything that’s happening” in Ukraine.
Asked at a press conference after the Victory Day parade about Yerevan’s EU aspirations, Putin said it would be “quite logical to hold a referendum and ask the Armenian citizens what their choice would be. Based on that, we would make our own choice as well”.
He added: “And then we would have gone down the path of a gentle, civilised, and mutually beneficial separation.”
The former Soviet republic froze its membership in the Russian-led CSTO military alliance in 2024 over Russia’s failure to defend it against Azerbaijan, and has expressed an interest in joining the European Union, angering the Kremlin. It has also signed a series of security memoranda aimed at anchoring itself in a widening network of European and transatlantic defence partnerships and away from Russia.
Putin also drew a parallel with Ukraine. “We are all going through everything that’s happening in the Ukrainian direction right now. But how did it all start? With Ukraine’s attempt to join the EU.”
Armenia on Monday hosted dozens of leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, for a summit of the European Political Community (EPC). A separate summit between the EU and Armenia was then held in the capital Yerevan on Tuesday.
“This first EU-Armenia Summit elevates our partnership to a new level and sets a clear direction and agenda for the coming years”, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.
After both summits, Russia summoned the Armenian ambassador for a dressing down over hosting Zelensky.
Putin says war is heading to end
When asked after the parade whether the Western military aid to Ukraine had gone too far, Putin said: “They started ratcheting up the confrontation with Russia, which continues to this day.
“I think it (the conflict) is heading to an end but it’s still a serious matter.”
“They spent months waiting for Russia to suffer a crushing defeat, for its statehood to collapse. It didn’t work out.
“And then they got stuck in that groove and now they can’t get out of it,” Putin said, referring to the Western countries.
Putin added he was ready to meet Zelensky in a third country only once all conditions for a potential peace agreement were settled.
“This should be the final point, not the negotiations themselves,” he said.
The Kremlin leader brought former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder into the picture as his preferred European mediator. “Of all European politicians, I would prefer to talk with Schröder”, he said.
Schröder, 82, has remained close to Putin long after leaving office, standing apart from most Western leaders since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
German officials reacted cautiously, saying they had “taken note” of Putin’s comments but viewed them as part of “a series of bogus offers” from Russia, government sources said.
On Saturday, António Costa, the president of the European Council, told reporters the EU will only talk to Putin at the “right moment.” The remarks appeared to clarify comments he made last week, when he said there was “potential” for EU-Russia peace talks and that Ukraine had given the EU its support for engaging in them.
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Turkish Press: Pashinyan’s groundbreaking words: Karabakh was not ours
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan described Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region’s movement to unite with Armenia as a “deadly mistake.” Pashinyan stated, “What made it ours? We built schools, kindergartens, factories there, we lived there, but fundamentally, how did it become ours? It was not ours; it was not ours.”
In a video published in Armenian media on Sunday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan argued that Karabakh is not Armenian.
“THE KARABAKH MOVEMENT WAS A FATAL MISTAKE, IT WAS NOT OURS”
Pashinyan said in his speech:
“It should be noted that the Karabakh movement was a fatal mistake for us. What made it ours? Explain to me, what made it ours? We built schools, kindergartens, factories there, we lived there, but fundamentally, how was it ours? It was not ours, it was not ours.”
KARABAKH STOOD AT THE CENTER OF CONFLICT FOR YEARS
Internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but predominantly inhabited by ethnic Armenians for decades, Karabakh stood at the center of a long-standing conflict between the two South Caucasus countries following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Azerbaijan fully regained control over the region in 2023 after a military operation that led to the exodus of the vast majority of Karabakh’s Armenian population.
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Kremlin accuses Armenia of providing platform for Ukraine’s Zelenskiy, agencie
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Kremlin lashes out at Armenia over Zelensky’s ‘anti-Russian statements’ in Yer
May 10 2026
Kremlin lashes out at Armenia over Zelensky’s ‘anti-Russian statements’ in Yerevan
May 10, 2026 3:12 pm
by Martin Fornusek
Moscow expects an explanation from Armenia over President Volodymyr Zelensky’s “anti-Russian statements” delivered at a European summit in Yerevan, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on May 10.
Zelensky visited Armenia for the European Political Summit held on May 4-5, marking his first visit to the South Caucasus country.
The president held bilateral meetings with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and other leaders, and urged the European community to increase pressure on Russia in order to end its war against Ukraine.
Armenia has the right to hold any summit as part of its multi-vector foreign policy, Peskov told Russian state news outlet Vesti.
However, platforming “anti-Russian” positions is “inconsistent with the spirit of relations” between Moscow and Yerevan, Peskov said, criticizing Pashinyan for not pushing back against such statements.
“The main thing is that Armenia doesn’t take an anti-Russian stance. That’s what’s most important to us,” Peskov added.
Separately, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued veiled threats toward Armenia over its push to join the EU.
The Russian leader said Armenia should hold a referendum on its EU bid and drew parallels between Yerevan’s European aspirations and EuroMaidan events in Ukraine.
“We are witnessing the consequences of developments surrounding Ukraine,” Putin said. “And where did it start? With Ukraine seeking to join the European Union.”
Ukraine’s 2013-2014 EuroMaidan Revolution started as pro-EU protests and led to the ousting of pro-Kremlin President Viktor Yanukovych.
Russia responded by occupying Crimea and starting a war in the Donbas region in 2014, before launching its full-scale invasion eight years later.
The statements underscore a growing rift between Yerevan and Moscow, as Armenia, once a close ally of Russia, pursues closer ties with the West and European integration.
The Russian Foreign Ministry previously lambasted Armenia and summoned its ambassador over Zelensky’s visit.
Pashinyan responded that Armenia is not Russia’s ally when it comes to its war in Ukraine.
The South Caucasus country formally remains a member of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), but suspended its activities in 2024.
The step came after the military bloc failed to intervene in Armenia-Azerbaijan hostilities in 2022, and Russia did not act when Azerbaijan took Nagorno-Karabakh in the 2023 offensive.
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