March: 31, 2026
On March 28, the French “Legion of Honor” against the Turkish “Golden Eagle”. Pashinyan’s “lovely letter” with the caption, “A blow to Papikyan?” article: published, where we also referred to the following Facebook post of Nikol Pashinyan from the series of “lovely letters”.
“Such a lovely letter.
Hello Mr. Prime Minister, please consider your request to grant me another rank (major general). My title is colonel.
Thank you in advance.”
We mentioned in our article that the authenticity of the letter has yet to be determined, and in any case, we presented the procedure for awarding military ranks. At the same time, under Pashinyan’s corresponding post, we proposed to make public the letter and the identity of its writer. We publicly addressed the RA Defense Minister with the same issue.
By the way, we are very well aware of the confidentiality of personal data, we have respected it and we will continue in the same way, but in this case we are already dealing with the fact of discrediting a state institution or the army itself, circumventing the powers of a state body, which was allegedly allowed by the same colonel and which was made public by Nikol Pashinyan. And this regardless of whether the letter is genuine or not.
Anyway, in addition to leaving a comment-suggestion under the post, we tried to find out from Nikol Pashinyan’s spokesperson Nazeli Baghdasaryan which power structure the author of the letter is from, without asking for identity information.
“I spoke with the Prime Minister, he said that he cannot convey anything more than what was published, because we do not have the consent of the letter writer to mention the entire sector.” in response to our question, Baghdasaryan mentioned, although we did not ask for any information about the identity of the writer, and all we had to say was, in which structure does the author of the letter serve, after all, was the letter made public with a request for the title of general? What is the result, did Nikol Pashinyan get the consent of the writer to write about such a “lovely letter” albeit anonymously, attacking the authority of this or that power structure and its leader, or does such a letter not exist at all?
And if we accept that such a letter exists, then who knows, maybe Nikol Pashinyan will decide to make the request of the colonel in the letter a reality on May 28, the Day of the First Republic of Armenia, that is, days before the National Assembly elections?
And we also appealed to the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia for clarification.
“The Ministry of Defense does not have any information about the said question.” said Suren Papikyan’s spokesperson Aram Torosyan in a conversation with us.
And we will always pursue such “small” episodes, after all, the current authorities of RA told us to make inquiries from them in such cases…
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