Who are you to call the Catholicos that? Is Nicole the law? Zhanna Aleksanyan

“Ktrich Nersisyan’s brother was an agent of the KGB of the Soviet Union, and the National Security Service made that fact public,” he told journalists briefly today. responded Director of NSS Andranik Simonyan.

Journalists were not surprised by the statement about the leaked information, but by the address of the director of the NSS to His Holiness. to the question, how does the director of the NSS, who is not a politician, use the “Ktrich Nersisyan formulation” when talking about Vehapar, he responded: “As I used.”

168 around this short Q&A․am listened to the assessment of human rights defender Zhanna Aleksanyan.

Zhanna Aleksanyan responded to the observation that today in the National Assembly the young director of the NSS addressed the Catholicos of All Armenians in the name of the basin, and to the question: why in the state, in fact, there is no necessary division, for example, between the position of a politician and a non-political structure, the director of the NSS: “I think that Nikol Pashinyan is forcing them to say ‘Ktrich Nersisyan’, but if he doesn’t even force it, and they go to it voluntarily, then what should I think about the head of the NSS?”

Who are you to call the Catholicos that, what do you represent, who are you, by what right? Only Nikol is the law. Nicole is the law. In other words, that’s how I see this readiness for any illegality.

The head of the NSS has 0 importance for me, if he addresses the Catholicos like that, he has 0 value. And that atmosphere is clearly created by Nikol Pashinyan and he is very happy that he has such subjects who tirelessly serve and repeat any of his illegal manifestations.”

By the way, the document was made public, as Andranik Simonyan noted, through a leak on the KP website, civic.am. at the end of 2025, the website of the ruling power published a document received from the National Security Service, claiming that Archbishop Ezras Nersisyan, the brother of the Catholicos of All Armenians, was recruited by the Soviet KGB in the 80s.

In any case, Mikayel Hambardzumyan, who held the position of former director of the National Security Service under Nikol Pashinyan, drew attention to the fact that the declassified document did not have the signature of Ezras or any data proving that fact.

“Judging by the document, I cannot say that this document really proves that Ezras Srbazan or anyone else about whom such a document may have been drawn up, that this person cooperated with the special services, had a code name, etc., because I repeat, I did not see the signature of that person there. Such a document can be drawn up on anyone,” he said in a conversation with one of the media.

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