“Release and proclaim the innocence of Saint Michael” In Gyumri, the signature collection for Archbishop Mikael Adjapahyan continues.

By the way, when Nikol Pashinyan visited Gyumri yesterday to give a concert in Vardanants Square, there was a different reality in the same square. In the courtyard of the “Holy Seven Wounds” church, a signature collection in support of the Bishop continued, in which a large number of citizens participated.

“The collection of signatures continues for about a week, – 168․ammentioned in a conversation with Abrasim Atoyan, initiator-member of the signature collection from Gyumri noting that until Sunday, the signature collection was done only by electronic signature, and since Sunday, also by paper version, – Currently, without summarizing today’s data, we have 3500 signatures.

Today, acting mayor Avetis Arakelyan and his employees, who were in favor of our demand, also joined the signature collection, also emphasizing that public justice will at least be implemented.”

By the way, Abrasim Atoyan informed that on the day of the concert organized by Pashinyan, many young people preferred the signature collection to the concert.

“There were no Gyumretians at the concert, as such, we can say. During the signature gathering, when preparatory works were being carried out in Gyumri Square, many citizens also expressed their displeasure with the concert being organized, which we personally witnessed. Therefore, I can claim that the concert was not to the liking of the people of Gyumri, – detailed our interlocutor from Gyumri, noting that there were many people from Yerevan with the CP in the square.

Summing up, Abrasim Atoyan noted that Nikol Pashinyan has no foothold in Gyumri.

“One of the reasons was the neglect of Gyumri for 8 years, which did not escape the eyes of the people, and everything got worse when arrests took place, the mayor was also arrested, and in addition to the mayor, about 60 citizens were arrested and charged with groundless, illegal charges, which also caused the anger of Gyumri residents.

The visit can be considered disrupted, which, however, they try to solve on the information platform by stating that there were many citizens, which is a lie. It’s also funny that they mention that despite the rain, there were many people in the square, but in their own videos it can be seen that the asphalt is dry in general, so there is no rain. What is it about?” he summed up.

Let’s remind that the conspirators have organized a signature collection, considering: “The illegal criminal prosecution against the leader of Shirak Diocese, Archbishop Mikael Adjapahyan, and the restraining measure applied amount to torture, because the Bishop is unable to fulfill his pastoral duties, and the believers of the diocese are unable to satisfy their spiritual needs.

The bishop is even deprived of the right to participate in services, which is considered a form of manifestation of united prayer and is mandatory for Christian believers and clergy. Due to the continued imprisonment of the bishop, the constitutional right to meet the religious demands of the believers of the Shirak Diocese is affected, so this kind of intervention of the state is no longer justified, because, like the high-ranking clergyman, who has dedicated more than half a century of his existence to God and the building of the Armenian Church, the spiritual demands of the Christian part of the society are being irreparably damaged.

Therefore, they demand to immediately remove the preventive measure of house arrest applied to Archbishop Mikael Adjapahyan, to stop the illegal criminal prosecution against him and to declare the Bishop’s innocence.”

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The 100 days of the introduction of the Health Insurance System were recently summarized in the National Gallery. This period is the beginning of a path that significantly changes the healthcare system of our country. Of course, we understand that it will take time for the people to feel the results of this reform and to be satisfied that, in the end, the state is providing them with the long-awaited guarantee,” Health Minister Anahit Avanesyan said at the event organized on that occasion, stressing that this process was made possible as a result of Nikol Pashinyan’s “political will”.

Before addressing the content side of the event, first, about its form.

Thus, on April 8, the Universal Health Insurance Fund delegates the organization services of this event to MAROG MARKETING LLC through a non-competitive, urgent one-person procurement procedure. according to the electronic procurement system, the price of the contract was 6 million 880.111 drams.

With this amount, according to the technical specification of the contract, the LLC was obliged to carry out event content development, design and printing management process, production of animated clips, participant support, event video recording and photography, media representatives management, event technical and logistical support, buffet and reporting.

“They celebrated the 100-day anniversary in the National Gallery with champagne, strawberries and classical music, when there were doctors in the insurance service in the Republic of Armenia who received a salary of 13,000 drams, or sonographers served 130 patients, receiving 1,300 drams for 1 sonography for 1 patient.” 168․amresponded to the event in this way Anush Poghosyan, President of “Right to Health” NGO։

According to Anush Poghosyan, the event has nothing to do with insurance or healthcare reform.

“There are many problems in health insurance. by the way, today not only doctors have problems, but also medical workers: many queues, restrictions, etc. I think this was just an opportunity for them to get together with their friends, drink a glass together, get a couple of nice rolls and get reels,” he explained.

In general, the healthcare expert considers the hasty investment of the fund as part of pre-election processes.

“This was a pre-election show, a pre-election campaign, to be able to go and tell the citizens that we introduced insurance, and we see their political leader and minister talking about it non-stop. And it is no coincidence that at this stage they provide a large amount of medicines. 50% of the budget for the whole year has already been distributed,” he concluded.

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Yesterday, on April 19, Nikol Pashinyan went on tour to Gyumri with his team, “leader band”. Nikol Pashinyan was accompanied this time by Anna Hakobyan, who recently announced on Facebook through a video that she and Nikol Pashinyan were divorced.

Nikol Pashinyan’s concert in Gyumri’s Vardanants Square had a special title: “Voice of Peace”.

Gyumret businessman Gevorg Avagyan I am sure that no matter how much Nikol Pashinyan has concerts in Gyumri, he came to power by walking from Gyumri, and he will leave power from Gyumri itself.

“Pashinyan will start from Gyumri and finish from Gyumri, he will be thrown out of the political field. He did so many things, he has nothing more to do, the people of Gyumri have already expressed their will through the elections.

He got up yesterday and came to Gyumri with his teammates, administrative resources, police forces, some of them were in civilian clothes, but only a part of the square was filled. In other words, if Nikol Pashinyan did not bring people with him, very few people from Gyumri would go to the square. Nikol Pashinyan brought his audience with him from Yerevan.” 168.amGevorg Avagyan said in a conversation with

Continuing, our interlocutor said, with Nikol Pashinyan there were such persons who were by the side of those authorities during different governments: during the ARF, they were with them, during the RPA, they were their “shoppers”.

“Well, such people are ready for anything for the sake of money and position, moreover, these people always exist and will always exist, at all times. They are only interested in the day, they don’t think about having a homeland, they don’t think about Artsakh, about not handing over the homeland, their day starts with thinking about getting a reward, who will die at the border, who will be left without a home, they don’t care, the important thing is that their women can wear a kabluq. This mass was at Pashinyan’s concert, I am glad that the people of Gyumri showed their position yesterday.

Nikol Pashinyan lost in Gyumri in the elections, and even after the change of power, they were unable to form a government in our city. Do you remember that after the disaster of 2020, the community heads of Syunik demanded Pashinyan’s resignation, but I don’t know where they stuck their tails and kept quiet, they turned away from themselves, but that didn’t happen in Gyumri, they stand united here,” Gevorg Avagyan added.

He is sure that he will say “no” to Nikol Pashinyan during the June 7 elections.

Our interlocutor also added that yesterday was the opening of “North-South” to Gyumri-Yerevan, but that “North-South” has not even reached Gyumri, it ends in the part of Beniamin village, it is 15 km before reaching Gyumri, it will not even enter Gyumri, but it will go around and pass through the Akhuryan administrative area. It turns out that Nikol Pashinyan was trying to win over the people of Gyumri in this way, but it didn’t work.

“According to the rumors hanging in the air, dismissals are expected in Gyumri in this regard, because Vardanants square was not able to be filled with people at the level of the governor. Rumors are circulating that the governor may be forced to resign.

We are ready for any struggle, our will is unbreakable, we say that we cannot be friends with the Turks, they want to arrest and detain us, we will say our word. No one can silence us, we are not members of any party and we do not depend on anyone, anyone among the opposition who will do a pro-national act and will not stand by Nikol, we will be with him. But if we find out that someone from the opposition will stand by Nikol Pashinyan, we will fight against him as we fight against Nikol Pashinyan. I mean, those who are in “games”, we will expose them, so I take this opportunity to tell you to stand back before it’s too late.

I repeat, Nikol Pashinyan will not get a vote in Gyumri, even his administrative resources will not help him to at least overcome the temporary threshold. Yesterday Vardanants square is an example, we have an “Axe” near us, if he had invited a concert, I think more people would have come. Even the employees of the governor’s office were ashamed to go to the concert with their family members, there are some who did not go. Well, even the people in office understand that the chair under Nikol is “broken”, the foot of the chair is missing,” emphasized the businessman from Gyumri.

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Nikol Pashinyan’s efforts to organize a motorcade from Yerevan, to detain people and thereby create the impression of a crowd at the “Varchabend” concert in Gyumri’s Vardanants Square, failed in such a way that the sound of the already shamefully failed Pashinyan concert in the evening is probably still heard in the ears of Sarik Minasyan, the CP candidate who lost in the Gyumri council elections, and Shirak governor Davit Arushanyan, on whose shoulders it was placed. The “sacred duty” to ensure the fullness of Vardanants Square.

168.amAccording to reports, Nikol Pashinyan fell into such convulsions from the half-empty appearance of Vardanants Square that it cost Sarik Minasyan a loss of balance and, as a result, on the social network rude behavior, for which he has already apologized.

And no matter how much the CP ladies and men published close-up photos from their convenient ruckuses, no matter how much the entire administrative resource was filled in Gyumri, especially the highly “literate” Shirak, who considers Shirak to be one of the most beautiful cities in Armenia, for example, with the governor of Armavir, no matter how much Defense Minister Suren Papikyan, who left the business, published heart-warming pictures from the square, no matter how well-known singers sang from the stage, the reality did not change. Vardanants Square remained half-empty. Aram MP3, of course, is a talented artist and many people love him, but the people of Gyumri didn’t even leave their homes to listen to him, it was so unpleasant for them to see Nikol Pashinyan and the CP members.

According to our information, the number of people was less than during the final rally of the CP during the Gyumri council elections.

Gyumri once again rejected Pashinyan, and this is the reality. Gyumri does not forgive Pashinyan’s encroachments on either its faith or its decisions.

It is noteworthy that the “Union of Informed Citizens” did not publish the number of listeners of the Varchaband concert in Vardanants Square, counting the number of cars in the motorcade (according to the CP members: 1230 cars, but perhaps they also attributed to their motorcade just the cars of those going to Gyumri – A.V.).

It is noteworthy that a day before the concert, the people of Gyumri warned each other on social networks not to leave the house, the shar is coming to the hometown. In fact, there is a culture of listening to each other in Gyumri.

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Soviet cartography of Nikol Pashinyan’s government and: «of the peace agenda» about twists and turns

Recently, the topic of enclaves in the territory of Armenia and Azerbaijan has been somewhat pushed to the background, but there is no doubt՝ after the June parliamentary elections, the topic of border demarcation will definitely return to the current agenda. Thus, Doctor of Political Sciences Artur Khachikyan is publishing the possible scenario of territorial concessions in favor of the neighbors, starting with the early handing over of the enclave of Tigranashen (Kyark), «which will cut the North-South strategic road, cutting off Syunik from the north»։

And it seems that the events are leading to it. Under the “peaceful” calls of Pashinyan and his teammates, the village of Tigranashen leaves the impression of an empty and uncertain settlement., is noted In the latest report of Lurer periodical. The territory of the village at the foot of Tezhkar (Ghez’l-Dash) mountain, which is about 8-10 km from the border village of Nakhichevan, is 960 hectares, the total exclave is almost 1430 hectares.

According to official data, there are about 40 houses in Tigranashen, through which passes the strategic road connecting the Ararat Valley to Vaik and Syunik, but most of them are either empty or inhabited by elderly people. As a result of the visit of the activists of the “Non-Western Azerbaijan” movement Suren Surenyantsi and Hayk Nahapetyan to the village, a manifesto was prepared, listing the problems and demands regarding the security and future of the village in the context of the “peace process” between Baku and Yerevan.

According to Baku’s version, Kyarki is located in the Ararat Marz of Armenia, within the borders of the Sadarak region of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic under the jurisdiction of Azerbaijan, and “657 square meters of Nakhichevan in the Soviet period. km territory was illegally handed over to Armenia.” It is noted that on February 18, 1929, by the decision of the Central Electoral Commission of the Central Executive Committee of the Transcaucasian Soviet Socialist Republic, 10 villages of the Nakhichevan region were handed over to Armenia, which allegedly grossly violated the terms of the Moscow Treaty of March 16, 1921 and the Kars Treaty of October 13, 1921.

In 1930, 3 more villages were joined to Armenia: Lehvaz, Astazur and Aldara, as well as Kyark. According to the decision of the Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan on May 5, 1938, a significant part of the surrounding lands of that village was transferred to Armenia, which led to the complete isolation of Kyarki from the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Nakhichevan.

at the same time according to former RA Human Rights Defender Arman Tatoyan conclusions published by some mapsի՝ «the village never had the status of an enclave and from the beginning was not only part of the First Republic of Armenia, but also part of Soviet Armenia. The village was called Karke (Kyar in Azerbaijanic:in).

Another Armenian village, Genu, was located in the immediate vicinity of Tigranashenthe with the name, which was also a part of Soviet Armenia. the name is derived from the evergreen tree. Over the years, the village has been divided into two parts, Turkish J:as a result of the resettlement of representatives of the Afarlu clan, and received Jafarlu and Geight the names. For example, from 1926 c:Artezner village was part of the territory of Soviet Armenia…

The same applies to the historical Armenian villages of Tavush. ohfor example, Voskepari, which, both in 1918-1920 and in the Soviet years, was in Ijevan region: In Barani region.

Misrepresentation of historical facts, blatant disregard for the rights and safety of border residents, lessons learned from history, and blatantly unprofessional interpretations have for decades deprived us of the legal basis to protect the rights and interests of our citizens, endangering the security of our country.”

A convincing answer there is none to the question of when exactly and: on the basis of which documents these or those enclaves appeared. most likely, they areand:were formed elementally due to the ethno-religious composition of the population of one or another region and: its economic and: with the characteristics of economic activity։

“Until 1936, no Azerbaijani enclave existed on the territory of Armenia on Soviet maps.” continues the topic is the famous Armenian cartographer Ruben Galchyan. “For the first time only in 1936, the official map of the Transcaucasia was published, on which the first two Azerbaijani enclaves appeared, in the Tavush region of Armenia, and another such area, the present-day Tigranashen, in the Ararat region, was marked on the map in 1939”, but on another Soviet map published a year later, there are all enclaves except Kyarki.

1940ssorry last and: Later, the leadership of the Armenian SSR proposed to Baku to include the exclave in Armeniaand:from the town of Zod on the southeast coastand:outlet in front of a larger area (moreover, according to unofficial information, a Kurdish autonomous district within the Armenian SSR was previously planned here as a replacement for the much larger and more populated similar region (“Red Kurdistan”) between Nagorno-Karabakh and the Armenian SSR within Azerbaijan in 1923-32. There was also an unrealized project for a 20 percent territorial expansion of that district, development of social infrastructure, food industry, and cotton cultivation there). However, Baku did not plan to eliminate Yerand:60 km of the direct road to that Azerbaijani exclave, not accepting the exchange offers.

By the way, the same question, two neighbors «fraternal» between republicsand: in the context of broader demarcation, in his extensive letter to Khrushchev put Honored Art Worker of the ASSR and: Honored Architect of the USSR MrRafael Israelyan, winner of the post-prize on July 20, 1962, with whomand:came the short answer: “It will come againthe bowl» (by the way, during the same period, Khrushchev initiated a project to transfer the lands of Northern Kazakhstan to the RSFSR):…

The escalation of the Karabakh conflict on the border in the 1980s and 1990s was naturally followed by armed clashes between the Armenian and Azerbaijani SSRs along the entire border, including in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Region. The residents of Kyarki moved to the adjacent territory, where they built the village of Yeni Kyarki 1992-in: In August, units of the new Azerbaijani army occupied the Artsvashen (Bashkend) enclave of the Krasnoselsk region of Armenia, which was to be returned has hope Pashinyan’s government՝ within the framework of a hypothetical exchange of enclaves (in: by the way, hardly any of the former residents or their descendants will return there). According to Galchyan՝ «will be the most logical solution to the question «The exchange of the Armenian Artsvashen enclave with the Azerbaijani one»: Otherwise, if the parties return their enclaves, a whole complex of problems related to their access will arise, and therefore full of conflict, in which case (we would add) Baku will most likely act from a position of force or the direct threat of its use.

The above residents of Tigranashen publicfrom the letter follows՝ one of the most painful problems remains educational. As a result of the youth exodus, only 4 children currently attend the local school. According to the current regulations, schools that do not reach the minimum number of students will be closed. and: From September 1, 2026, the local school will also suffer the same fate. In addition, the villagers have no place to work, which forces them to leave their homes in search of a livelihood, whichn “further aggravates the demographic situation and accelerates the process of settlement emptying»:

And the residents consider the main and most worrying problem to be the houses and: for plots of landand:lack of formal ownership. In many cases, the state does not issue appropriate certificates, which actually deprives people of legal guarantees and: does not allow to talk about either development or long-term investments in the village. According to Hayk Nahapetyan՝ such an approach may be linked to the future of the area politically and: with legal uncertainty, because if the state officially recognizes the property rights of citizens, then in the case of possible territorial solutions, a serious legal conflict will arise»: It has a direct impact and: standard of living and: on the development prospects of the whole community». He does not increase confidence in tomorrowand: A premiseand:available by hidden the threat.

Lack of property rights, socio-economic difficulties and security problems are a closed circleand:formation, from which the village stilland:he sees no way out. An impression is created that Tigranashen is preparing one way or another as a result of the June vote of CP if successfuland:hand them over։ However, for now, that success is far from being a fact, and the second stage provided for by the current Constitution is not at all excluded…

Alexey Baliand:

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Translation by Zhanna Avetisyan

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On April 17, Pashinyan has plans regarding the publication of the 44-day report. Why did he skip the important episodes of the war in the National Assembly? to publish where we referred to the speech of Seyran Ohanyan, the former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, head of the “Armenia” faction, regarding the 44-day war of 2020 during the discussion of the 2025 performance of the RA government’s plan in the National Assembly.

“The generals you mentioned fled through that area, and I believe that it is within your responsibility, because the Chief of the General Staff of the RA Armed Forces makes a decision there, and you approve it. Through your zone of responsibility, Azerbaijan has bypassed and reached the borders of Shushi, Berdzor, Berdadzor and the Republic of Armenia – the borders of Goris, Kapan, Meghri. Now you say that the generals escaped, they escaped under your leadership, go and make a decision.” Seyran Ohanyan said in the parliament, addressing Nikol Pashinyan.

This thought is most comprehensive Seyran Ohanyan said as early as 2023 168.amin the interview with and after that, and perhaps the reason for the resounding is that this time it was sounded from the NA podium and addressed directly to Nikol Pashinyan.

«The PB had a defense zone of 283 km, in 2 places the enemy attacked in the southern direction: Hadrut, Jabrail, and in the northern direction: Martakert. An opportunity was created in the direction of Martakert to stop, which is the result of the work of the local operational-tactical and tactical circles. And in the southern direction, the enemy broke through the defense line. If a big breach occurs, then the commanders of Martakert, Askeran, Martuni are not to blame, that with that breach the enemy was able to reach 52 km to Shush, to reach 70-100 km to the parts of Meghri, Kapan, Goris, Sev Lake. Those commanders are not to blame. The people who should have imagined the theater of military operations in terms of space, general front, depth, time, arrangement of troops, possible regrouping and constant replenishment of the armed forces are guilty.

If the Armed Forces makes a decision in its defense zone, that decision is approved either by the General Secretary or the President of the Republic of Artsakh, but where there are several military units, and both the Armed Forces and the rest of the corps are military units, the General Secretary is the one who ensures cooperation between those several military units, makes the decision, is responsible, and the head of the Republic of Armenia, the Commander-in-Chief, approves the decision of the General Secretary. And the enemy was able to break through and move forward in the place in which the approval of the decision was the responsibility of the head of the Republic of Armenia.

And we have to see Shushi’s operation in the context of the entire defensive operation and the consistent or gradual advance of the enemy in that entire breakthrough zone. The operation of Shushi should not be seen separately, the strategic level responsible should have faced them in the attack zone at least in the forest areas of Hadrut, where there were quite good conditions to stop the enemy,” Seyran Ohanyan told us.

The publisher, media magnate Aram Gabrielyanov tried to take advantage of the words of the former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia by publicizing some details of his meeting with the former head of the RA Armed Forces General Staff, which was related to the use or not of “Iskander” and the handing over of Shushi. Moreover, this is not the first time.

And after a long silence, Onik Gasparyan decided react to the above statements, offering to speak in a closed meeting format.

“AI suggest that the National Assembly organize a closed-format discussion on the war and post-war events of 2020, involving in the discussion key political and military positions held during that period, as well as political and public figures who have the appropriate permission to deal with data containing state and official secrets, and the relatives of dead and missing servicemen.

It is time to face the reality and explode all the lies and unnecessary speculations that are being circulated. I am ready to present a detailed and multi-faceted argued analysis regarding the armed forces.” stated in the general’s statement.

Here the question arises: what did the former head of the State Security Service not say during his two-day and nearly 10-hour interrogation at the 44-day investigative commission? 168.amthe wrotethat the written analysis of Onik Gasparyan, the former chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia, was attached as an appendix to the report of the investigative commission headed by Andranik Kocharyan, on 70-80 pages. And although the parliamentary opposition did not participate in the work of the committee, opposition MPs (Gegham Manukyan, Tigran Abrahamyan) got acquainted with the report and the argued analysis of Onik Gasparyan. The political leadership, the people who held various positions during the war also know everything, either through participation in the work of the commission, or through the initiated criminal cases. Maybe the former head of the General Directorate of Internal Affairs thinks that the government representatives or circles can he gather opposition deputies to the same table this time so that they ask questions and say what he hasn’t said yet?

Bitter experience has taught nothing? Onik Gasparyan 5 years ago these days suggested to create a commission to study the circumstances of the 44-day war, although before that he called Nikol Pashinyan a “moral liar”. Referring to our sources, we wrote that the general’s hope was that the opposition deputies would participate in the work of that committee, but the parliamentary opposition made a political decision not to participate in that farce. And at the same time, in April 2021, Onik Gasparyan was also in a remote debate with the Security Council, because during the session held on the 4th day of the war, out-of-context parts of his speech were declassified, so demanded Publish his and the RA President’s speech at the September 30, 2020 session in full.

Moreover, 168.amwith in the conversation emphasized. “I am sure that even if they publish it, it will be edited. The truth can be revealed only in case of a change of power.”

And now, when the political opposition figures, the relatives of missing and dead soldiers, the public, military specialists demand the current authorities to publish the 44-day report, Onik Gasparyan again offers a closed discussion with those who are already aware of everything.

On the other hand, his proposal can be used by the authorities, call the relatives of the missing persons, who initially participated in the work of the investigative commission, to the discussion, and silence the demand to make the report public. Why does the former head of the General Directorate of Internal Affairs himself not want that report to be made public?

Or why Onik Gasparyan has not yet responded to those statements, which, as we mentioned, are not being made for the first time.

Why did the general, who was the head of the General Staff during the 44-day war, not respond to the claims about his responsibility in the context of the well-known counterattack operation? Nikol Pashinyan in June 2023 during an open questioning in the investigative commission about the failure of that operation had placed the responsibility on himself, although this issue is within the framework of the Onik Gasparyan-Jalal Harutyunyan tandem.

Why did Onik Gasparyan not respond to Andranik Kocharyan’s declassified statement during the questioning of the former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia Davit Tonoyan, that he allegedly expressed regret on the occasion of the decision to reduce the military units of the First Army Corps, which is the main reserve of the RA Armed Forces, at the expense of which, according to Tonoyan and the former head of the Defense Ministry Artak Davtyan, special purpose units were created? After all, Onik Gasparyan has been the deputy head of the General Staff since 2017, and the 1st Army Corps of the RA Armed Forces also held the rear of the 9th Defense District of Artsakh.

Why doesn’t the former head of the State Security Service publicly say when the “preparation number one” order was issued, why wasn’t it issued from the very beginning, who didn’t allow it?

Why doesn’t Onik Gasparyan say what it is according to Nikol Pashinyan’s order after November 7, 2020? be undertaken Actions to take Shushi back, for the failure of which Pashinyan said that he would have to answer in court: “Onik Gasparyan will still answer for Shushi”.

These are questions, accusations that have been made publicly, does Onik Gasparyan not find any answer to them that should be published? We are still not talking about the shameful plan of using “Iskander”, according to Andranik Kocharyan, the claims about which were again made public, and if in this case some data can pass under the state or military secret, then the other questions can be answered publicly.

By the way, it wouldn’t hurt to talk about the proposal to stop the war on the 4th day, purely militarily, as a result of which it matured, especially when Nikol Pashinyan did not deny that there was such a proposal at first, then during the disagreement between Onik Gasparyan and the Council of Ministers, he backtracked on his non-denial, and in his press conference in May 2024, Pashinyan made a similar hint. did.

“There is one episode that I haven’t talked about in its entirety, including because the image isn’t complete for me. It’s on the 7th day (Onik Gasparyan proposed to stop the war at the session of the Council of Ministers on the 4th day of the 44-day war. – M.P.) that famous talk about ending the war, what it was about, what it meant, where it came from and where it was going, for what purpose.”

So, in some cases, the leadership during the 44-day period should also be a pro-aggressor, not always in the best case, in the role of the defendant, sometimes the national interest demands just that, why not also their own interest, then it will be difficult to defend, especially when the defenders are not many or situational.

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“Iran will hit the places where, according to Tehran, the threat to the Islamic Republic is concentrated,” he said today. 168TVof “diplomat” he mentioned on the air of the program Russian journalist, political commentator Abbas Juman: referring to the war against Iran and its consequences in the South Caucasus.

Abbas Juma believes that it is difficult to predict the course of the war and negotiations at the moment, because either the resumption of the hot phase of the war or the negotiation process is possible, although every statement of the US President Trump pushes the parties away from the negotiations.

Speaking from the South Caucasus, the Russian political commentator said that the war is changing Iran’s approaches, they are becoming tougher. According to him, if the war continues, if it unfolds, there is a great risk of involving other players in the war.

“The close cooperation between Azerbaijan and Israel is not a secret for anyone, Israel’s role in the Karabakh conflict is not a secret for anyone, the fact that Iran’s opponents bet on Azerbaijan is a fact. It is a fact that Azerbaijani territories are being used for spying on Iran, for carrying out sabotage, and for intelligence purposes. It is also a fact that Iranians know this well. It’s no secret that Iranians are suspicious of official Baku. The combination of these facts allows us to assume that, yes, at a certain stage, Azerbaijan can become, if not a player, then a platform, and a certain punishment. bear for it, because the Iranians will not ask questions, ask, tolerate, that stage has passed. The Iranians will strike if they think there is a threat from the territory of Azerbaijan,” Juma expressed a similar opinion, continuing to note that Aliyev is still able to balance and shows caution, just like his elder brother in Ankara.

Juma noted that Tehran is extremely worried about the fact that Yerevan is deepening relations with the EU and the USA. According to him, Iran has the right to worry about that fact, because Iran is at war. Juma believes that today Iran is at war and has the right to consider projects like “Trump Road” as a component of aggression. “What does Trump’s path mean, what about Iran, what about access to Armenia, and what if it is a dual purpose route?” Maybe it’s not just about trade. And, according to you, how should Iran, which is already at war and showing its strength, respond?

Abbas Juma stated that he is not trying to predict, threaten, but, in his opinion, the deeper the relations between the enemies of Yerevan and Iran, the more questions Iran will have to Yerevan. “And when I say that Iran’s relations and approaches to its neighbors will be reviewed, it also applies to Armenia. In this situation, how will Armenia balance, frankly speaking, it is not very clear, because Iran has the right to be wary of TRIPP, everything that concerns the relations between Yerevan and Washington, Yerevan and Paris,” said the analyst.

What leverages does Iran have in this matter, Abbas Juma said that Iran has, including power leverage. “Iran is going to the bank, one could have said something before the war, and as long as Iran is in the form it is today, feeling the weight of the war, realizing that it is pointless to talk to these people, it will hit the places where, according to Tehran, the threat to the Islamic Republic is concentrated. How the current government will interpret TRIPP is hard to say. However, if RA disregards Iran’s basic principles, if there is a threat to Iran’s national security, if Iran perceives it that way, then Iranians will not sit idly by,” Juma said.

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