Author: Emil Lazarian

Yesterday, another scandal involving Nikol Pashinyan took place in the capital. Last week, he became the center of noise in the Yerevan Metro, when he met a woman from Artsakh and called her “runaways”, and yesterday he was already in St. Anne’s Church.

There was a liturgy in the church dedicated to Palm Sunday, and Nikol Pashinyan decided that as part of his campaign, he could enter the church hand in hand, pushing everyone forward. The church was crowded, and Pashinyan’s bodyguards, pushing people, made way for the latter to go and stand in the first row. People got nervous. As a result, a stampede began in the Church. Currently, 3 people have been arrested in connection with the case, 2 of them are twin brothers, high school students.

Rev. Vrtanes Baghalyan, spiritual pastor of Saint Hovhannes Church in Byurakan, at 168.am detailed how an official should behave in the church, or how a citizen should behave in the church in general, especially if he enters the church in the middle of the liturgy.

“If the person is an official and he is accompanied by security, it is appropriate that he should attend the liturgy on time. First of all, it would be correct for the church to be aware of the arrival of the official in question, so that a place can be reserved for him in the church so that he can go and sit, and for that it is desirable that he should be present from the beginning of the liturgy. And it is not appropriate for a government official to go late to the liturgy and then create a commotion in the church. And in case of being late for the liturgy, decency requires them to be patient and wait, rather than the security guards clearing the way, punching people, etc., Father Vrtanes Baghalyan noted.

According to the cleric, if Nikol Pashinyan wanted to attend the liturgy, he could have visited the Cathedral, or Saint Gregory the Illuminator Church in Yerevan, which is a bigger church, and there would be no need to create a commotion.

“Well, if a person arrived late to the liturgy, it would be desirable to at least stay until the end, if you just have to go in and out, then there is no point in pushing people to get there and stand in front of them. He could have lit his candle at the candlestick, prayed and left quietly, instead of being late, pushing him to go forward, looking at the school-aged boy, knowing full well what attitude a part of our society has towards his anti-church attitude. Knowing all this well, he should not have provoked. If you go somewhere and insult the family’s grandparents, father and mother, it is possible, isn’t it, that the children will retaliate? If you address the Most Reverend Patriarch by the name of a priest, you are not respectful, you may be disrespected by ordinary believers. The attitude towards the 2 arrested brothers was not improper, even more towards Gevorg Gevorgyan,” Mr. Vrtanes added.

It is also unacceptable for a priest to use disproportionate force against a citizen in the church, when they hit a child and then arrest him.

“That person entered the church to conduct an election campaign, which he did not have the right to do. I have not seen members of other parties come to the church and do pre-election campaign. There were so many people in the church, except for them, no one wore party symbols. That person, together with his security officers, obstructed the performance of the ritual ceremony in the church, which is criminally prosecuted. Of course, in this regard, we do not hope that he will be held responsible for this,” emphasized our interlocutor.

Father Vrtanes also recalled the incident that happened between NA Speaker Alen Simonyan and a citizen the other day, where the citizen approached Alen Simonyan and asked if they could talk, after which the NA Speaker said, “Take him here.” The priest considers such speech of an official unacceptable, saying that he has no right to call a citizen “this”.

“Such officials should not be in our society.

The former officials would never have allowed such behavior in the church,” emphasized Father Vrtanes Baghalyan.

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“We are living in very difficult and amazing times, when you could not imagine in your most fantastic dream that one day they will not allow you to talk about Artsakh, they will try to close the issue of Artsakh in every possible way. right now we have a situation where courage is required to speak about Artsakh.” 168 Artsakh public figure Nare Simonyan raised his concerns about Artsakh during the TV program “Zara has a question”.

He regretfully noted that not only the enemies outside our borders, but also the authorities of the Republic of Armenia are interested in closing the Artsakh issue.

“They seem to have become the primary beneficiary of closing the Artsakh issue with the Aliyev regime,” he added.

While presenting his vision of the return to Artsakh, Nare Simonyan emphasized: “At this stage, we understand that we cannot return to Artsakh in 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, but it is very important to talk about that right, to raise the voice that about 150,000 Artsakh citizens have very important basic rights that are violated. it is the rights to live and create in their homeland, it is also the right to self-determination, which is less talked about, but should be talked about.

On different international platforms, we should talk about the right of return, talk about our violated rights and let the international community or international actors offer options, because when you don’t talk about your problem, everyone can consider that problem closed.”

To the observation that the raising of these just concerns is often rebuked by the authorities, for example, when Pashinyan considers it harmful to talk about ethnic cleansing in Artsakh, or the famous episode of the subway, as well as when the authorities avoid the word “Artsakh”, our interlocutor responded that all this is the result of both internal political and external coercion.

“In the domestic political field, the authorities of the day are trying to find internal enemies and consolidate their electorate against those enemies, those enemies are the primary bearers of national values ​​and national identity: Artsakh, the Armenian Apostolic Church… Nikol Pashinyan uses this technology and, on the one hand, by inventing internal enemies, softens the perception of the external enemy, which is fatal and threatens us every day from the outside, and on the other hand, he mobilizes his electorate before the elections against the internal enemy.

The fact that he considers the people of Artsakh as enemies, calling them brothers and sisters, has been seen many times, and, yes, also in the episode of the subway, when the daughter of the hero of Artsakh showed in a very detailed, very appropriate and competent way that the people of Artsakh did not run away, the people of Artsakh fought, we saw that the theses that were previously circulated on the scale of fakes, sometimes also of his henchmen, Papoyan, Alensimonyan and others, Pashinyan’s mouth said: “Billions of taxes, you lived at the expense of our taxes, you left and ran away” etc., said the public figure from Artsakh.

To the clarification of where the peace agendas will take us, if the issues related to Artsakh are kept quiet, Nare Simonyan replied that by keeping these matters quiet, this is a very clear and clear way not to peace, but to bring new problems for us.

“Not talking about Artsakh, we are opening the way to Syunik, the Syunik corridor, Tavush, the so-called “return” of Azerbaijanis, Yerevan, etc. In other words, by renouncing our rights, we also give the enemy the opportunity to present new demands.

It is clear that this is not the way to peace. mere “peace” was chosen as a brand in the internal political struggle, but on the other hand, it is absurd that a government that has brought the most wars and the most defeats throughout history is talking about peace.

And already the authorities do not even dare to threaten their citizens with war. if we are not elected, there will be a war, even as if they say a month for the war. What does this mean, an agreement with the enemy, what are you hiding?

I am sure that with the way that the authorities of the day are leading us, we will not have peace, but will even more endanger the existence of the Republic of Armenia.

This is not the way of peace, this is the way of elimination,” concluded Nare Simonyan.

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Nikol Pashinyan announces almost on a daily basis that “if the CP does not form a constitutional majority in the elections, then there will be a war.”

He made another such statement this morning on Facebook live, during which he called on the people to “stand up for peace”. Parallel to all this, Nikol Pashinyan and his teammates do not miss the opportunity to declare that “there is no longer peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan”, without answering the question whether they should remain in power forever so that there is peace in Armenia.

To what extent can Nikol Pashinyan’s threat to the people “there will be a war if I am not in power” affect people’s psychology, can this affect people’s orientation in the elections?

Psychologist Karine Nalchajyan, answering these questions, he said: at this pre-election stage, the tools that Nikol Pashinyan has in his hands are mostly outdated: wooing people, pretending to be a common man, etc.

“The working tool left in Nikol Pashinyan’s hands is to scare people with war. Fear is one of the deepest, most archaic feelings, and war, especially after seeing so much destruction and blood, people probably don’t want war the most.

So, out of the theses put forward by Nikol Pashinyan, only this can work to some extent, but I will not say that it will be very influential. Those people whose consciousness and ability to analyze are in place are not blinded by emotions, they understand very well that this power and peace are as far apart as the earth and the sky. of 168.am Karine Nalchajyan said in a conversation with

According to the psychologist, the situation in which Nikol Pashinyan has put himself, together with his team, is dangerous, because they do not say it openly, but they are already mocking the people.

“All this is from the genre of absurdity, this is a mockery of people, it says: ‘Do whatever you want, your song is sung.’ It is understandable, this causes laughter, disgust and other emotions, and at the same time, Nikol Pashinyan is not idle, he is doing business, he is advancing his plans, and that is in a hurry, for which he occupies the society with nonsense.

So, this behavior of his is already very dangerous, one should not despise and disgust him. With all this, they spoil the collective image of the Armenian nation, reduce the self-esteem of the Armenian people,” Karine Nalchajyan added.

Continuing, the psychologist said that the “color revolutions” that are happening in the world are preceded by a decrease in the self-esteem of nations, therefore, the pranks that are happening today are not done as an end in themselves.

“Today, many of us, don’t we, hear when people say: what kind of nation are we, what kind of people are we? This is what this government wants. Our collective opposition should work on this and raise the self-esteem of our people. If the authorities need the voice of the people, that’s why they took to the streets, that’s why people should understand that their voice is important and with that voice they can change things in this country,” emphasized Karine Nalchajyan.

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