May 24, 2026
They seized the phone of the President of Artsakh. According to the General Directorate of Military Investigation, the interest is the events related to the gas station explosion on September 24, 2023, while the phone is of 2025 production. lawyer Roman Yeritsyan wrote.
“The former military commissar of Artsakh (1999-2011), former head of the combat training department of the Defense Army (1993-1998), member of the military council of the RA Ministry of Defense, former minister of environmental protection of Artsakh (2018-2023), head of the Artsakh CPA service sent a notice to vacate the 60 square meter service apartment allocated in 2008. (2013-2018), advisor to the President of Artsakh, with the rank of colonel in the military service since 1998, deputy of the first convocation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Artsakh and a great contributor to the formation of the state, recipient of the “Combat Cross” medal of the first degree, who lost his brother and father in the first war, Felix Gabrielyan, on the grounds that “the apartment was allocated illegally”. The mentioned apartment is the only place of residence of Felix Gabrielyan and his family members in RA.
The process mentioned in the second point was also initiated against the former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Azerbaijan Mikael Arzumanyan, but by the decision of the administrative court, the administration aimed at eviction from the apartment was suspended, and the claim was later satisfied, considering the action of eviction from the apartment illegal. In addition to the mentioned ones, according to my information, hundreds of such processes have been initiated. The factual basis of the violation was not cited in the notice, the legal grounds speak of a completely different situation, and the notice consisting of only 3 sentences has dozens of spelling and factual errors.
On May 22, 2026, the verdict on the claim of the prosecutor’s office to expropriate the property of the representative office building belonging to the Republic of Artsakh, located at 17/2 Nairi Zaryan, Yerevan, but the verdict has not been published until today,” he wrote.
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