Satik Seyranyan, editor-in-chief of “168 Zham” newspaper and 168.am website, on his Facebook page, referring to the falsehoods spread by forces supporting Nikol Pashinyan inside and outside about opposition forces, figures and media, wrote:

“The thing they said was a Moldovan scenario, and they were asking for help from European officials, has already been fully implemented in Armenia. We’re in it now.

Literally the same scenario – media-analytical platforms operating in the same countries, through funds with dubious financing of dubious centers (the same “Dosiye” center and other platforms literally published similar “noisy investigations” in Georgia, Moldova at one time also spread these dubious, fake materials through local government media, their mouthpiece NGOs, bloggers against opposition candidates and forces), whose founder is Khodorkovsky (and not only), the same fake leaks, allegedly based on internal documents and transcripts of phone calls, with references to the same sources…

In Moldova, the opposition figures, all opponents were labeled by the authorities and their supporting internal and external circles as agents of the Kremlin, Putin, “foreign agents”, spies, state traitors…

It is literally the same scenario, the same toolkit, with the same actors, funded by the same centers…

Soon, according to that Moldovan (and not only) scenario, referring to the leaks of those dubious sources, cases will be initiated under the articles of “state treason” and “illegal party financing”, arrests, house arrests, in order to paralyze the political activity of important figures of the opposition in the important election phase, especially in the final stage, to delegitimize them.

Wait, soon they will try to block opposition news sites, TV channels, they will also impose a state of emergency, two days before the elections some opposition parties will be officially declared unconstitutional and banned (on the basis of illegal funding)…

Their scenario, tools and purpose are the same as in Moldova.

And when, in particular, were those tools sharpened, at what stage? When they realized that Maya Sandu (in this case, Pashinyan) could not secure a victory.

The leaks from Khodorkovsky’s aforementioned platforms and other sources in Moldova became the necessary catalyst that freed the authorities’ hands against the opposition as an excuse to use harsh methods.

As if they didn’t apply for Maya Sandu to get 55% of the votes. Remember this percentage well.

But, one important, very important nuance. In Moldova, after all that, Sandu was even somehow managed to be held through the votes of the Moldovan diaspora living abroad (in Europe and the USA), again with falsifications, I won’t go into detail, you know.

This is not possible in Armenia. In order to prevent that scenario, we must ALL PARTICIPATE, GO TO THE ELECTIONS, HOLD OUR VOTES, HOLD OUR COUNTRY…

CP and its leader, sponsors understand that there will be a large turnout in the elections. The scenario of Moldova will be applied, but it will not increase Nikol’s rating, they will not be able to secure the desired percentage, and drastic steps will lead to dangerous developments, the diaspora, following the example of Moldova, cannot participate in our elections… That’s why they go door to door with village heads, mayors, tasovshiks and convince, threaten, blackmail people that if they don’t vote for Nikol, at least they won’t go to the elections…

Our answer should be the participation of all of us in the elections.

CP, together with its bosses, is afraid of one thing: the RA citizen. From an active, patriotic citizen.

So much.”

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