Author: Ekmekjian Janet

Armine Ohanyan, editor-in-chief of “Hraparak” daily, writes on his Facebook page. “Political forces are already in full-time campaigning. One of them visits marzes with a team, reminding grandparents that he made them happy with 10,000 drams, others hold congresses and presentations, announce the format of participation in the elections.
The teams of Samvel Karapetyan and Robert Kocharyan made impressive presentations. It is clear that the impression left by these presentations is also important, because it is also what attracts or repels people. Big halls, ovations, speeches, announcement of the prime ministerial candidate… all according to the rules of the genre.

But nothing is perfect in nature and life, including these pre-campaign actions. For example, I am saddened by the lack of imagination, creativity – no original steps or words. Everything is predictable and familiar. Even speeches can be told in advance who will talk about what and how. Meanwhile, many remarkable propaganda tricks and technologies are used in different countries of the world.

The most important thing is that they are able to include new layers of the public, make spectacular propaganda, and activate the classes that don’t hope for elections. Hopefully the sequel will be more creative than the start.

Today, the presentation of the “Armenia” alliance was, of course, impressive in terms of the energy and crowd of the hall. But it is not good that the leader of the alliance cannot read Armenian texts fluently with an Armenian accent. And the applause after every sentence was very unpleasant. After all, there are still people who remember the congresses of the SMC and that scene caused déjà vu. Every nuance reminiscent of a cult of personality, at least for me, only causes rejection and alarm.

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In any case, judging by the Facebook and fake responses of the KP, the government received another dose of fear and terror. This is also the reason why criminal justice methods have gained momentum. Well, imagine how pathetic and bilious they are, that even I, the editor of “Hraparak”, was called to the Investigative Committee for questioning… I will go, I will come, I will tell you.”

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On February 4, with the article “Will Pashinyan show the new weapons to keep the power?” in the article we wrote that at some point, Nikol Pashinyan may not consider the reaction of individual groups to be sufficient after getting acquainted with the new weapons, and organize a public demonstration in the period close to the elections. After all, one must somehow try to prove that the external debt has grown justifiably. We had clearly stated reliable information by writing.

“By the way, just these days 168.am received information, according to which it is not excluded that on May 28, Nikol Pashinyan will organize a military parade of the newly purchased weapons. Information about a possible location has also been provided, but due to security reasons, we will not speak. Regarding this topic, we tried to get an explanation from the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, but it was not possible to contact the officials, so we sent a written request, we will present it as soon as we receive the answer.

And our question to the Ministry of Defense was clear: Is a demonstration-military parade of the newly purchased weapons planned for May 28, that is, in Sardarapat?

On February 10 we have published The response letter of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, which states:

«As of now, there are no discussions on holding an arms show-military parade in Sardarapat.”

In our second article on this topic, we drew attention to the fact that the Ministry of Defense in its response mentioned only the possible location of the military parade, Sardarapat, and not the date, May 28.

Accordingly, we assumed that a few days before the National Assembly elections, in any case, there would be a public display of newly purchased weapons in some format, especially since the Ministry of Defense stated that “there is no such discussion at the moment.” In other words, the possibility of this has not been ruled out.

And here is Nikol Pashinyan in Kapan on March 15 confirmed 168.amin early February, as well as our observations in this regard, saying in a conversation with citizens.

“There is a lot of talk about weapons, we also say why the state debt has increased. I made a statement 2-3 months ago that I will take and show those citizens who want to see what we have achieved. I have already invited several groups, we have gone, but the number of people is so large that we came to the conclusion that we should show it to everyone, we should show it publicly. And we are thinking of making a public demonstration in the near future so that our citizens can see what we are talking about. We will present a report to the people, probably in May, to show what we have done and what we have achieved. Moreover, we will show only the weapons acquired during our government and after 2022.”

Let’s remind that earlier Nikol Pashinyan is against to express in response to the display of modern weaponry purchased in the military exhibition version, including the proposals of ordinary citizens.

“There are opinions that it should be done, there are opinions that it is not necessary, for various reasons. Yes, after the military parade in Azerbaijan, the topic became active in Armenia as well. If we organized a military parade in November or December, it would be impressive, but we are preparing for the peace agenda.” in November 2025 had announced he

And in order, according to him, to “not spread wrong information”, at that moment they decided to organize a closed demonstration for individual groups.

But as we mentioned in one of our articles, if Pashinyan understands that a public demonstration or a military parade will help to keep the power, as a result of some “negotiations” with the Azerbaijani side, Pashinyan may go for it as well. It turned out that we were not mistaken.

Considering the need for a public display of the weapons purchased in Kapan during the last 2-3 years, Pashinyan also said.

“However, we do this by emphasizing peace and in the context of peace. there is peace, there is no tension with our neighbors, we hope that our neighbors will not perceive this as a show of aggression.”

In other words, months ago, in the logic of the peace agenda, it was not advisable to show weapons, now it is possible in the context of peace. And why, we have already mentioned.

By the way, published in February of this year, “From Pinaka to Gripen. Armenia opens its cards, Azerbaijan buys 6.5 billion worth of fighter jets” according to our article we wrote in the article: when during the visit of General Anil Chauhan, Chief of the Defense Staff of the Indian Armed Forces to Armenia, the samples of Armenian and Indian weapons were made public, Azerbaijan accepted it quite mildly, even though Azerbaijan once is a danger seen even at the level of the armed forces of the special forces of the Republic of Armenia.

Can we say that Pashinyan is trying to get a verbal agreement from Aliyev in such matters, otherwise how can we understand the change in approaches to the appropriateness of a public display of weapons over the months?

As for the increase in the state external debt based on the purchase of weapons, there are also interesting episodes related to it. we have reminded.

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Today, in a conversation with journalists after the regular session of the Government, Nikol Pashinyan confirmed that Edita Gzoyan, the former director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, has written an application for dismissal on her own instructions, because she dared to discuss the Artsakh problem during the visit of the US Vice President to Tsitsernakaberd and presented her with books on the subject.

“I said very clearly: there cannot be two foreign policies in the state, people can say: I am from Artsakh, I am from Van, I am from Mush, I am from Moscow, I am from Minvodi, what does that have to do with the topic I mentioned, a person can say whatever he wants. Here we are talking about the public official and the distribution of roles and political assessment,” Nikol Pashinyan said.

Continuing, Nikol Pashinyan made a sharp transition to the church again, saying that from the altar of the church they say “bless the Republic of Artsakh”, and here he is not giving a legal, but a political assessment.

“I say that Kutrich Nersisyan took over the leadership of the war party in RA. During church liturgies, the word “peace” is used more than 40 times, and 4-5 times it is emphasized: Lord God, give peace to the world. Here we are also talking about service of a spiritual nature. This is another example that these people have nothing to do with spiritual service at all.

Giving a ceremonial gift on the subject of the Artsakh problem is a political provocation, there can be no such thing, that is, there is something to give a gift, are we not able to give it, are we afraid, should we give it through another official?

Listen, there is a state, a protocol, I say again: it is enough to treat our country as a self-sufficient group. I cannot allow such a thing,” emphasized Nikol Pashinyan.

Details in the video of 168.am

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Artak Zakaryan writes: “Dear opposition community,

I am sure that almost all of you have the same desire: to get rid of these authorities. But it is necessary to understand that only this rash is not enough. Every citizen of Armenia needs unity and street struggle before the elections. Otherwise, CP will falsify your wishes and doesn’t care about each of your votes. In order to keep those votes and to implement them, a broad mobilization and street fight is needed before and after the elections.

Recently, CP was unnecessarily excited by an American IRI poll, in which, according to the data that reached me, the number of those who refused the survey was extremely large. Experts note that a certain part of people usually refuse to participate in this or that survey. In the case of the latest IRI Armenia survey, that number is almost twice as high (the vast majority of callers (10/7) refused to speak at all).

This proves that people live in an atmosphere of fear, disappointment and uncertainty. That people no longer expect anything and have no faith. This indicates that a large part of people is afraid, avoids or considers it pointless to even give their opinion to public opinion polls.

And in this case, who has a guarantee that the government, built on falsehoods and fed on lies, will tolerate the contents of the ballot box after handing over the homeland? Who is the naïve oppositionist who, after eight years of disasters, repression, political prisoners and a divisive atmosphere of hatred, is ready to believe in electoral victory?

It turned out that the way to win the elections goes through the process of expressing no confidence in the Prime Minister with a legal and united struggle.

If CP does not have the post of prime minister after 10 days, it will gather 1.7% of votes in the elections. The picture is almost the same in post-Soviet and Eastern European countries. For us, it’s more terrible.”

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