Ruling Party in Armenia Releases Anti-Church Platform

Boshkezenian Garik
April 27 2026

Ruling Party in Armenia Releases Anti-Church Platform 

April 27, 2026 | Armenia

Ahead of the June elections, Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract Party has published a political platform that calls for the removal of the Catholicos of All Armenians and outlines a politically led roadmap for restructuring the Armenian Apostolic Church.  

This unprecedented move, critics say, represents a direct violation of the country’s constitution and a dramatic escalation in state interference in religious affairs. 

The program, released ahead of upcoming elections, lists as its 10th political objective the removal of the “de facto head” of the Armenian Apostolic Holy Church, a reference to Catholicos Karekin II. Notably, the document avoids using his ecclesiastical title, instead referring to him in diminished terms that observers say reflect a broader effort to undermine both the office and the institution. 

Beyond leadership change, the party platform proposes a series of sweeping church reforms, including the appointment of a Catholicos Locum Tenens, the drafting of a new church charter, and the eventual election of a new Catholicos under revised structures. The proposed charter would introduce mechanisms for financial oversight and clerical discipline — areas traditionally governed internally by the church. 

Legal experts and religious freedom advocates warn that such proposals constitute direct political interference in a religious body’s internal governance. Armenia’s constitution both recognizes the Armenian Apostolic Church’s unique role in national life and enshrines the principle of separation between church and state. 

This dual framework is further reinforced by the 2007 law on church-state relations, which explicitly recognizes the church’s right to self-governance. Critics argue that any attempt by a political party to predetermine leadership changes or impose structural reforms violates these protections. 

Recent History of Tensions 

The development marks the latest flashpoint in an ongoing conflict between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s government and the Armenian Apostolic Church. During the past year, tensions have escalated significantly, with the government becoming increasingly hostile in its efforts to curtail the church’s independence.  

Earlier this year, Armenian prosecutors opened a criminal case against Catholicos Karekin II. In addition to the criminal charges, the Catholicos was also banned from traveling abroad, according to lawyer Ara Zohrabyan. The timing of the ban coincides with a major assembly of Armenian bishops scheduled to meet in Austria that week and prevented the Catholicos from attending despite his ecclesiastical role as head of the Apostolic Church. 

For many Armenians, the stakes extend beyond legal concerns. More than 90% of the population identifies with the Armenian Apostolic Church, which has long served as a cornerstone of national identity, particularly through periods of foreign domination and genocide. 

Historically, attempts to exert political control over the church have been associated with external powers, including the Soviet authorities, which sought to limit religious influence. Critics warn that the current proposals echo those earlier efforts, raising alarm about the future of religious freedom in the country. 

Perhaps most concerning, analysts note, is the way the policy is embedded within a broader electoral platform. Because the church-related measures are only one part of a wide-ranging political agenda addressing economic and social issues, voters may not fully register their implications. 

If the ruling party secures an electoral victory, it could later claim a public mandate to implement the proposed changes, including intervention in church governance — despite the absence of explicit public debate on the issue. 

As Armenia approaches its next election, the inclusion of such measures signals a potentially transformative moment for the country’s democratic institutions and its historic church — one that could redefine the boundaries between political authority and religious autonomy. 

https://persecution.org/2026/04/27/ruling-party-in-armenia-releases-anti-church-platform/

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Armenian illumination from manuscripts to Glendale murals

David Nargizian
FOX 11 Los Angeles
April 27 2026
By Araksya Karapetyan and Paul Chaderjian

The Brief

    • Glendale artist Arpine Shakhbandaryan has spent decades translating the 5th-century Armenian tradition of illuminated manuscripts into modern public art, including murals, utility boxes, and crosswalks.
    • Her prominent works, such as “Glendale in Bloom” and the “Jewel City Rug” crosswalk, blend Glendale’s civic symbols with deep Armenian heritage and personal family heirlooms to tell community stories.
    • Driven by her spiritual foundation, Shakhbandaryan’s large-scale projects—most notably a 1,000-square-foot church mural—aim to foster public joy and bring diverse communities together through shared visual history.

GLENDALE, Calif. – In Glendale, art can meet you at the curb. It can wrap a utility box in color. It can turn a crosswalk into pattern and memory. It can rise across a church wall in saints, scripture and gold. 

For artist Arpine Shakhbandaryan, those public works grow from a much older source, the Armenian tradition of illuminated manuscripts, a form she has spent years studying, practicing and translating into the life of a modern city.

Her path began with encouragement at Glendale High School, where a teacher saw her ability early. “She actually told me that I had a talent for art,” Shakhbandaryan says. That push led her to private lessons in Glendale at the Atanian Art Center, where another decisive moment followed. 

“He introduced me to the Armenian illuminated manuscript art,” she says of artist and teacher Vladimir Atanian. “He gave me my first gold leaf. And that’s where I created one of my well-known pieces, which is Saint Etchmiadzin. So, it really started from there.”

The art form she embraced reaches back centuries. Armenian illuminated manuscripts date to the fifth century, the Golden Age of Armenian literature, when artists created miniature illustrations, decorated initials and ornate borders around Gospel texts and other works. 

Shakhbandaryan has drawn that language into the present through paintings, commissions, calligraphy and public art. Her work includes trchnakir, or bird letters, a traditional Armenian style in which letters take the shape of birds.

She describes the process with the care of someone who knows every step by touch. “To illuminate is to adorn with gold leaf,” she says. “The work starts first with the pencil drawing. Then I apply special leaf glue with a paintbrush to the areas that will be golden. Then comes the process called gilding, applying the thin sheet of foil to the surface. This must be done carefully and gently.” After the gold leaf is applied, the excess is brushed away, leaving the luminous surface that gives the work its glow. Then the rest of the painting takes shape in watercolor.

For Shakhbandaryan, illumination carries spiritual weight as well as beauty. Much of her work reflects Armenian history, churches, the Armenian alphabet and the homeland itself. “My faith is the foundation of my work,” she says. “My art is a gift and blessing from God. Through my work, I want others to see the beauty and love He is creating all around us.”

She first painted in this style at 18, choosing the Armenian alphabet for her first illumination. “I asked Professor Atanian how to do the gold technique,” she says. “When he gave me the glue, gold, and a very fine brush, I felt privileged and honored.” She later studied books on Armenian manuscripts from the seventh through 12th centuries and visited museums in Los Angeles to study illuminations in person.

Her formal education widened her range. At the University of Southern California, she worked in oil, acrylic and other media, and later earned a degree in biology with a minor in fine arts before continuing into graduate study in public health. Still, she kept returning to illuminated manuscript art. 

“I did do oil, acrylic, and other forms of art in college,” she says. “I went to USC and I was able to experiment with different forms, but my passion and the one that I continue to refine and continue to work on is the illuminated manuscript style.” She adds, “I am drawn to the detail. The letters initially, the alphabet letters, you can manipulate them in many ways.”

That sense of movement and possibility helps explain why the form travels so naturally through her public work.

Over the past two decades, Shakhbandaryan has contributed to eight public art projects, seven of them in Glendale, including a large mural, five utility box designs and a creative crosswalk installation. The city’s arts and public works programs created openings for artists to turn everyday surfaces into shared visual space. Shakhbandaryan says that work matters because it reaches people where they live. 

“It’s bringing people together and bringing different art forms together,” she says. “That’s why I really love applying for those public artworks.”

She still remembers the excitement when Glendale first opened the utility box program. “They told me we’re going to celebrate the city of Glendale, and we’re going to let you paint the utility boxes; and you can do whatever you want as long as it’s celebrating the city of Glendale,” she says. That invitation helped place her work in corners of the city where residents pass it on errands, on walks and on the way home.

One of her best-known pieces, “Glendale in Bloom,” turns a utility box into a bouquet built from civic symbols and sister city ties. The design includes the Glendale hibiscus, the California poppy and the American rose, alongside the forget me not of Armenia, the Bayahibe rose of the Dominican Republic, the cherry blossom of Japan, the dahlia of Mexico, the jasmine of the Philippines and the hibiscus of South Korea. Jacaranda branches and peacocks tie the piece back to Glendale. 

Shakhbandaryan describes the work almost as if she is arranging the bouquet in real time: “All of these flowers are coming together in this bouquet. And there’s the jacaranda branches, which is the official City of Glendale tree, and the peacocks are sitting on the branches, and it’s just wrapping around the utility box.”

Another public piece reaches deeper into her own family history. Her “Jewel City Rug” crosswalk on West Broadway draws from Armenian rug design and from an heirloom woven by her grandmother nearly a century ago. 

“I love rugs,” she says. “It’s very an ancient form of not only for homes as a functional item, but it also tells stories. Rugs were used to weave community stories.” 

She connects that tradition directly to her family. “My grandmother, Aghafni Shakwandarian, she wove a rug. So now being 100 years ago, that I have. It’s an heirloom that my father passed on to me. And I wanted to kind of tell the story of Glendale in that form. I wanted it to be art. I wanted two symbols to be geometric. But I also wanted the rug feeling to come through.”

That impulse, to place inherited memory in public view, also shapes her largest work. At St. Peter Armenian Church and Youth Ministries Center, she completed a mural of roughly 1,000 square feet that took months of sustained labor. 

The mural includes St. Peter with his keys, Saints Hripsime and Gayane, the cathedral of St. Gayane, angels, the Holy Spirit as a dove, Jesus walking with an Armenian family, and the tree of life and knowledge rendered in illuminated manuscript style. 

“The mural represents the story of love,” she says. “Jesus taught love to his disciples. That message passed through St. Peter, then to St. Hripsime and St. Gayane, and ultimately to the Armenian people.”

She speaks about the labor in plain terms. “I worked on it for six months, for day and night,” she says. “Probably I would say six days out of the week, I took a break on Sunday service. And it was completed.”

Throughout her work, Shakhbandaryan returns to the same idea: joy shared in public becomes a form of connection. “If it brings them joy, when the artwork brings them joy, they celebrate together,” she says. “And that’s part of being together.”

In Glendale, that feeling lives on walls, sidewalks and street corners. Ancient Armenian forms move through a modern city. Gold leaf still catches the light. And Shakhbandaryan’s work gives that light a place to land.

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Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra To Perform 14 Concerts Across Five Ma

Jirair Kafian
A1+, Armenia
April 27 2026

Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra To Perform 14 Concerts Across Five Major European Cultural Centers

As part of the celebrations marking the 35th Anniversary of the Independence of the Republic of Armenia, the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra (ANPO) will perform 14 concerts across five major European cultural centres from April 27 to May 16 (2026). The tour is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture, and Sport of the RA and includes prestigious concert halls in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Spain.

This tour is a testament to the high reputation and demand for Armenia’s century-old orchestra within the European musical and cultural landscape.

The orchestra will be joined by an exceptional array of world-class soloists, including one of the greatest violinists of our time Augustin Dumay, the world-renowned Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan, rising star pianist Eva Gevorgyan and acclaimed Italian cellist Ettore Pagano. 

The conducting staff is equally formidable, featuring Eduard Topchjan (Armenia), Pier Carlo Orizio (Italy), and Benjamin Zwick (Switzerland).

The concert programs feature substantial masterpieces of classical music—a “professional examination” of sorts that will once again demonstrate the ANPO’s high performance standards and competitiveness alongside Europe’s prestigious orchestras. The repertoire includes: Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 (“Titan”), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3, Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1, Johannes Brahms’s Violin Concerto, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Antonín Dvořák’s Cello Concerto and Excerpts from Aram Khachaturian’s ballets “Spartacus” and “Gayane”.

This tour will further solidify Armenia’s cultural presence on the most prestigious stages of Europe.

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Armenpress: Pashinyan voices solidarity with Trump after ‘disturbing shooting

Karagyozian Lena
U. S.15:12, 26 April 2026
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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan condemned the disturbing shooting incident in Washington and expressed relief that U.S. President Donald Trump and other top American officials were unharmed after the attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

In a statement on X, Pashinyan said that violence has no place in democratic societies.

“Glad to hear President Donald Trump & First Lady, the Vice President & other attendees are safe & strong after disturbing shooting incident at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Violence has no place in our democratic societies. Wishing POTUS continued well-being amid today’s challenges,” Pashinyan said on X.

U.S. President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and other senior officials were rushed out of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington by Secret Service agents on Saturday night after a man opened fire on security personnel nearby.

The man fired a shotgun at a Secret Service agent at a ‌checkpoint in the Washington Hilton hotel before being tackled and arrested, Reuters reported. 

Trump told reporters at a briefing at the White House later that the officer was saved by his bulletproof vest and was in “good shape.”

It was not immediately clear whether Trump was the target of the attack, though he told reporters he believed that he was. The U.S. president has survived two previous attempts on his life since 2024.

A law enforcement official identified the suspect as Cole Tomas Allen, a California resident about 31 years old, Reuters reported.

The ⁠suspect was armed with a shotgun, a handgun and multiple knives. He was taken to a local hospital to be evaluated but it was too soon to say what his motivation was, Reuters reported citing law enforcement officials. 

Based on preliminary information, he was believed to have been a guest at the hotel.

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168: 4.3 billion dollars in 1 day. Prisoners of debt

Badalian Vardan

April 26, 2026

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.

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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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Taleat’s exclusive cables on how the Armenian Genocide was orchestrated

Emil Lazarian

April 26, 2026


In 1921, the book “The Great Crime” of the Diaspora Armenian writer-publicist Aram Antonyan, in the documentary genre, was published in Boston. Aram Antonyan (1887-1952) was one of the few people who managed to leave the Deir-el-Zor desert alive during the Armenian Genocide, where Armenians were massacred or starved to death.

The book presented for the first time important documents related to the Armenian Genocide: testimonies, official orders, codes, telegrams, letters and other written sources. The book contains Naim Bey’s memoirs, some secret documents belonging to him, and Talaat Pasha’s telegrams.

Naim Bey gave those documents to Aram Antonyan. By reading those cables, secret documents, we get a complete picture of how Ottoman Turkey organized the Armenian Genocide, what orders Talaat gave, and what method they used to carry out the massacres of Armenians.

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In Talaat’s secret cables, we notice that he openly talks about Armenians, who should be sent to massacre the deserts. We read about it in Talaat’s December 1915 telegram.

N 801

“Party of Aleppo.

To every individual.

The Armenians working in railway and other constructions have also been decided to be sent to their places of deportation, and the army commanders have been informed about this by the Ministry of War. Report the result.

26 Dec. 915. “Home Secretary Tallead.” (Antonyan A., “The Great Crime”, Boston, 1921, p. 58).

Already in one of the telegrams of 1916, we read about the removal of the Armenians of Western Armenia from their settlements, taking them to the desert and massacring them.

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“Party of Aleppo.

“We heard that there are 40-50,000 Armenians, most of them women and children, along the roads of the lines extending from Intil, Ayran to Aleppo. The most severe punishment will be given to those persons who will be the cause of a concentration of misery on those positions which are of great importance for military deployment. Therefore, after negotiating with the government of Atana, send those Armenians on foot to their places of exile (deserts) immediately, without going to Aleppo. I am anxiously waiting for you to report the result within a week.”

   

16 January 916: “Interior Minister Tallead”. (Ibid., p. 59).

In the telegrams, we also find facts about how women, children and the elderly were convinced that their husbands, husbands and fathers would join their families during migration or immediately after moving to a so-called “safe place”.

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“Party of Aleppo.

“Answer to January 27 916 summons. –

Convince us that the men will eventually join them, and send them to the places of exile.

2 February 916: “Interior Minister Tallead”. (Ibid., p. 61).

Aram Antonyan’s “Great Crime” is one of the first important documentary works of the Armenian Genocide, which is based on real documents and testimonies. Secret materials and Talaat Pasha’s cables reveal the planned and coordinated nature of the genocide. Those documents clearly show how the Ottoman authorities organized the deportation and massacre of Armenians, deceiving and misleading the Armenians.

These facts show the real mechanisms of genocide as a crime organized by the Turks.

Z. Sh:i was late



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What was the role of transport corridors in the context of the Armenian Genocide?

Chalian Meline

April 26, 2026

“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.

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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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Nikol Pashinyan is afraid of Onik Gasparyan, and Onik Gasparyan is afraid of him. Gagik

Vanyan Gary

April 26, 2026

“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.

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Pashinyan scares with war… Let people look at the facts, where are they today?

Hambik Zargarian

April 26, 2026

“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?

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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.”

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Aliyev must give compensation, and the people of Artsakh will go back and fulfill their wish

Kanayan Tamar

April 26, 2026

“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.

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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.

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