June: 16, 2026
In the “Pressing” program Satik Seyranyan the guest is Naira Zohrabyan is.
The main theses of the interview are below.
- In my journalistic and political biography, I have not seen elections of this quality, which were accompanied by total terror, hate speech and threats before the elections. In essence, these people, the government, are declaring that those who did not vote for them elected the opposition with a bribe. All of us, in fact, are called bribe-takers. If what happened during these elections had a component during the previous government, we would get the assessments that the OSCE/ODIHR gives during rigged elections. But this time nothing like that happened.
- During the years of working in his newspaper, “Haykakan Zhamanak”, Nikol used to say to Vahagn Hovakimyan: What kind of journalist, plasterer from the file bazaar, will write better than you? Now Vahagn, in fact, has well mastered the nuances of plastering:
- I will cut off my hand if Armenia becomes a member of the European Union in the next 50 years. In a few days, EU Enlargement Commissioner Martha Kos is coming to Armenia, and I am sure that there will be no talk of shameful elections. Instead, once again my beloved Babken Tunyan’s neighbor Poghos will say: we will get it for free… But when you ask what you will do to get it, there is no answer.
- Villagers in whole villages are squealing under loans, losing crops, resellers take the goods for pennies, sell them at high prices, but the villagers do not speak, they are afraid, they say that we are not involved in politics. How did it happen that the flower appeared in “Yerevan City” instead of Europe?:
- Dear peasants, I have never seen a European who buys apricots for 40 euros per kilogram. And if by some miracle your apricot reaches Europe, its cost will be just that much.
- The people went and voted, an unprecedented turnout in the last 3 elections, and Nicoll did not get a constitutional majority. The people went and rejected this regimen, and we all understood that reproduction was a matter of life for Nicole. Today, the Azerbaijani establishment is counting how many votes Pashinyan needs in this parliament to get a constitutional majority, and they hope that he will achieve it.
- The opposition forces that passed the parliament will have to do jewelry work to prevent kidnapping from their lists, so that the Azeri dream will not come true.:
- For the international community, it is extremely important for the opposition to take the mandates, to have that vignette: the government-opposition image. Nikol was given a task: if you want, intimidate, if you want, ask, make the opposition come to the Parliament alone. I am not saying that mandates should not be taken, because I do not see the electrified energy with which it is possible to generate the street. One can be very honest and say that one does not exclude the other: one can both take a mandate and start a street fight.
- The oppositionists who passed the Parliament also say that this Parliament is not legitimate. If it is not legitimate, you are taking the mandates, so what should you do to legitimize the illegitimate institution in front of the world? So, the opposition faces a very difficult choice.
- 10 days have passed since the elections, but the opposition leaders are still silent. This silence is not understandable. What are they waiting for, the decision of the CC? At the moment, I haven’t heard any words formulated with real substance that we are taking the mandates, we are going to the National Assembly to continue the struggle there as well.
- Do you rule out that there may be Gehamnazarians in the lists? Very risky. The opposition must consider all possible force majeure, including the fact that Nicole will steal a man from them. You can’t stand up and heroically declare that people won’t be stolen from me. Yes, Nikol has not fulfilled the commitment he made to Aliyev, Erdogan and the West, so the opposition has to go with the worst case scenario: what will I do if someone is stolen from my list? Gegham Nazaryan and Ishkhan Zakaryan were born from the same gulf of trust:
- We understand that we are sitting on an exploding barrel, and every day there can be this social riot, because every day you cannot deceive people that your rose went to Poland, but they appear in “Yerevan City” for 1445 drams. Relations with Russia are increasingly strained. Yesterday, when it became known about the visit of Martha Kos, Naryshkin made a statement, again urging the Armenian people to consider the consequences that may be for Armenia if Armenia continues its flirtation with the EU and continues its anti-Russian curtseys.:
- I would like that there is no pressure on the opposition and let them make their own decisions, but, I repeat, all risks must be taken into account. It was bad, but it turns out they didn’t have a Plan B. But there is still time, you can have that plan, otherwise they will become мальчик для битья once again. Any solution has to reflect the end point of how we get Nicole to resign, and it shouldn’t drag on until 2031. There is no need to go to the National Assembly and ask Nikol heroic questions, so that he will pack them and include them in his agenda.
- We buy Russian gas at the border for 177 dollars, Russia will increase the price and sell it to us for 700 euros. Can you imagine what will happen then? Armenia’s economy will be destroyed in a free fall regime, and the citizens of Armenia will remain under its ruins. Everything started like this in Ukraine.
- If your gas valve is in the hands of Aliyev, it will be the easiest way to blow up the country from the inside.
- Hikmet Hajiyev is one of the most ardent, most hateful anti-Armenians, and that’s what Ruben Vardanyan invested so much in Dilijan. I am sure that Hajiyev specifically demanded to be taken to Dilijan. It is surprising when the first official foreign delegation that entered Armenia after the elections is Azerbaijani. Nikol Pashinyan did not get what was expected of him and the game is just beginning. The Anti-Nicolasian Camp worked with jeweler’s precision:
- Nicole’s hourglass is overturned. Nicole is running out of time. the time has come to pay the “debts”, but it will be at the expense of our homeland and our sovereignty, so the time has also come for the consolidation of our entire opposition field and for taking united steps. They will, yes, the game will just start, no, then it’s game over:
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