March: 14, 2026
If in the past Nikol Pashinyan could fire the ministers and the chairman of the Central Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan with one “sms”, today without such “luxury” – a message – he can directly instruct any person to write an application for dismissal. The other day, he gave a similar instruction to the former director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Edita Gzoyan, who “dared” to present a book about Artsakh to US Vice President Vance during his visit to the Tsitsernakaberd memorial complex.
Artak Beglaryan, former state minister of Artsakh, human rights defender he is not surprised by any move of Nikol Pashinyan.
“This is not surprising, sometimes the opposite behavior is surprising when the government does something outside of its norms.
The surprising thing here is that the government of RA is becoming more and more petty, they even go after the director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute to give the US Vice President some obscure book. You would go and accompany, control so that nothing like this would happen, and then don’t forget to change the name of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute.” of 168.am Artak Beglaryan said in a conversation with Artak Beglaryan, adding, isn’t it clear that if Edita Gzoyan was the director of that museum, and if the crimes committed against Artsakh Armenians and Azerbaijani Armenians are included in the subject of research and activity of that museum, then the latter acted within the scope of her powers, presenting all of that.
“Edita Gzoya acted very correctly, as an Armenian scientist and an Armenian, I respect her. But on the other hand, this pettiness of the RA government has no limits, I’m just sorry that after Nikol Pashinyan’s instruction, Edita Gzoyan agreed and wrote an application. He should not have written an application and should have argued in court, proving in court that he was right. I think the entire staff of the museum should actively stand up and protect their rights first, and then the dignity of all of us,” emphasized Artak Beglaryan.
Let’s remind that after last Thursday’s Cabinet session, Nikol Pashinyan said in a press conference with journalists that on his instructions, Edita Gzoyan wrote an application for release, because the latter gave a book about Artsakh to the US vice president.
On March 11, Edita Gzoyan wrote an application for dismissal, a few days later Hrachya Tashchyan, who was once in the staff of Nikol Pashinyan, head of the Department of Foreign Relations, was appointed as the acting director of her museum. Yesterday, in a conversation with one of the media, he said that they will do as Nikol Pashinyan says.
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