A little while ago, with deep disgust and uncontrollable anger, I watched the video where the masked employees of the National Security Service, like predators, pounce on Gagik Tsarukyan and forcefully knock him to the ground.

This was not a show of force, but a scene of public humiliation and political terror orchestrated by a cowardly regime.

I cannot control my anger because what I saw was the transformation of the state into an instrument of political reprisal. It was not the fulfillment of the law, but an open manifestation of the fear and hatred of the government.

At this moment, I want to express without any reservations my full support to Gagik Tsarukyan, not only as a politician and senior friend, but also as a person who was tried to be publicly humiliated.

However, I am convinced that dignity cannot be destroyed, no matter how much masked hyenas try to do it.

Such methods prove only one thing: you are afraid. Are you afraid of strong people? Are you afraid of the truth? Are you afraid of your own fall?

Nikol Pashinyan, you and your “backpackers” staged this disgusting performance and spread it, thinking that you will scare the people, humiliate the opposition and make us all silent.

You made a mistake.

There will be an answer for this shameful video and this political revenge. Not with your style and your methods, but with the kind of political blows that will remind you very soon that no regime can survive forever on fear, violence and humiliation.

And finally, to you personally, Nikol Pashinyan.

You didn’t show strength today. You showed your complete cowardice and political bankruptcy. Fear of real competition, fear of one’s own future, fear of the responsibility that is inevitable.

You are already standing on the edge of the abyss into which you threw yourself.
That abyss will become the final political grave of your government.

Political scientist Suren Surenyants

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