Author: Jagharian Tania

Press: Is the USA leaving the OSCE Minsk Group and the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement process?

Jagharian Tania
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VERELQ presents the most notable publications of the Armenian press.


“168 hours” the newspaper writes. “I think that Trump’s staff does not pay attention to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict at the highest level. This is happening because President Trump is trying to reduce the role of US leadership in the world, including through severe budget cuts at the State Department. In the end, most likely, the staff will accept that the negotiation of a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through the Minsk Group provides a concrete plan on which the USA and Russia can work together for the sake of peace,” the former assistant to the US Secretary of State for the South Caucasus, former US ambassador to Azerbaijan, former American co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, director of the International Center for Defense Studies in Tallinn told “168 Hours”. Matthew Bryzareferring to the position of the White House on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue.


According to him, reducing the position of the US co-chair in the Minsk Group is a reckless and even dangerous step, because it can create a vacuum, as a result of which the Minsk Group process can fail, the result of which will be a spiral increase in tension, the peak of which can be another war. “Furthermore, from the budgetary point of view, this step makes no sense, because the expenses of the US co-chairman’s post are covered by the OSCE, and not by the US government,” said Bryza. By the way, in his opinion, in Geneva, the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev, resumed real negotiations on the settlement of the Karabakh conflict.


“People” the newspaper writes. “According to the news that reached us, Baghramyan 26 has been strengthened again, especially Serzh Sargsyan security control. All of this became more evident during Serzh Sargsyan’s visits to several state departments in recent days. For example, during the last visit of Minister of Defense Serzh Sargsyan, it was ordered to close the windows of the ministry, so that the room of the ministry could not be seen from the outside. Head of the RA State Security Service Hrachya HarutyunyanIn a conversation with “Zhoghovurd” daily, however, he noted. “These are just normal interceptions, which are carried out in order to ensure the safety of such high-ranking officials. You can see what kind of geopolitical processes are going on in the region, and we organize our events accordingly. There is nothing to worry about, we are doing our current work.”


“Realist” the newspaper writes. “PAP has already decided to join the coalition in 2018. In addition to the ministry of sports and youth affairs, they hope to take over the ministries of social bloc and culture. as well as the portfolio of their “pay” deputy prime minister, for which they are circulating Ishkhan Zakaryan, Mikael Melkumyanthe names And not only. There is a point of view that Ishkhan is personally lobbying Zakaryan, not unknown Khachatur Sukiasyan: According to our PAP sources, this is not so. “Khachik personally will not mind being the deputy prime minister. by the way, recently his “inner glow” is precisely on that occasion. And Hovik Argamic, we asked? “His time is over. Kocharyan didn’t want to either, but he had to adapt to the status of a young pensioner,” they said. By the way, according to the same sources, there is also a fourth candidate for deputy prime minister. it’s him personally Gagik Tsarukyan: “Don’t rule out his version either,” whispered our source with deep respect.


“Realist” the newspaper writes. “They say that it surprised many people Samvel Aleksanyan Samvel Karapetyan’s investment participation in “Alex Textiles” is explained not only by the latter’s desire to provide his son-in-law with foreign markets, but also by “Karapetyans vs. Tsarukyan” configurations. They also say that the Karapetyans want to reformulate the Armenian oligarchic field and “raise” Tsarukyan as a counterweight oligarch. “If Tsarukyan was the number one oligarch during Kocharyan’s time, now the tide will turn to Aleksanyan. Perhaps this can be explained by the fact that the total inspections of the SRC, “very close” to Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan, in Tsarukyan’s and Aleksanyan’s companies make Tsarukyan very nervous, but not Aleksanyan.


“Armenian Times” the newspaper writes. “We learn from the 2017 procurement plan of RA police that in the current year the department purchased 43 2017 Toyota Corolla cars from Toyota-Yerevan company. The police paid 350 million AMD for these 43 cars to the Toyota-Yerevan company. According to the contract, the cost of each of the 27 cars is 8 million 120 thousand drams, and the 16 is 8.5 million. According to the information in the contract, the country of the car manufacturer is Turkey. “Toyota-Yerevan” company, let’s remind, is connected Robert Kocharyan eldest son Sedrak Kocharyanwith the name. Police vehicles are insured by “Nairi Insurance” company, which again belongs to the Kocharyan family. The police transferred about 7.5 million drams to this company for insurance. We asked the police for a comment regarding the 43 cars to be acquired, but they offered to apply in writing for clarification. In the near future, we will present to our readers the purpose for which the police acquires these vehicles.”


“Publication” the newspaper writes. “In the near future, another sensational project will be presented to the National Assembly for consideration. We are talking about the draft of the RA Criminal Code, which has been in effect since 2003, which has undergone serious content changes, as it is considered outdated. In particular, the “Crimes against constitutional rights and freedoms” section of the Code includes discrimination, which, in fact, has been criminalized. Article 197 of the draft, which uses the term “sexual orientation” and specifies that discrimination – direct or indirect violation of human rights, freedoms and legal interests depending on sexual orientation in particular – is punishable by a fine of up to twenty times, or public works for a maximum of 80 hours, or restriction of freedom for a maximum period of 2 years.


Discrimination committed by using governmental or official powers or the influence caused by them is punishable by a fine in the amount of twenty to fifty times, or public works for a period of 80-150 hours, or deprivation of the right to hold a certain position or engage in a certain activity for a maximum period of 5 years, or restriction of freedom for a maximum period of 3 years, or short-term imprisonment for a maximum period of 2 months, or imprisonment for a maximum period for a period of 2 years. This article has already caused a lot of backlash among some people familiar with the project. Some qualify the provision “anti-national, anti-moral” and express fear that those with “non-traditional” sexual orientation may use the opportunity and blackmail others by referring to the mentioned article.


“time” the newspaper writes. “From October 30, the parliament started discussing the 2018 budget project presented by Karen Karapetyan’s government. That project is fundamentally no different from the budgets of the last almost decade, because it is, so to speak, within the framework of the philosophy of survival. Since 2009, practically all budgets of Armenia are within the framework of the philosophy of survival. The problem is that when the government changed in Armenia a year ago, the public did not expect a bright future from that change, so to speak, verbal assurances or just new faces of folklore, but figures who, instead of folklore, would give the public practical impulses of positive expectation. For now, these impulses remain in the genre of folklore, only the government figures who deal with them continue to be sympathetic, unlike the previous government.


The mechanism of formation of power is not public, that is, the will of society is a problem in it, not a decisive factor. It is a problem that the government overcomes and overcomes with force, administrative leverage, and financial means. Of course, until now the government has been formed in this way without decisive public participation, but currently there is a peculiarity: the process called the election has passed, but the government has not been formed. Moreover, now, in fact, there is no public even formally, there is no election, and the formation of the government must take place through post-election non-governmental fermentation. And that in turn brings another feature.


The point is that when there is a public formal problem, the system, in fact, at least in that part, has to consolidate around a problem and act in the direction of overcoming it. When now the actual problem is already within the system, there is no need to solve the issue of the public, even if it is a formal factor, a problem of consolidation of the power system arises. There is no consolidation, internal contradictions and contradictions are intensifying. They are intensifying, therefore the economy also becomes the victim of these events, so to speak, because no one wants to take tangible responsibility for the economic perspective if they do not have confidence in the government’s perspective. request.


Thus, Armenia is currently in a situation when Serzh Sargsyan is going to give up responsibility Karen Karapetyanconsidering the lack of economic breakthrough as a consequence of his inefficiency, and Karen Karapetyan, on the contrary, tries to show that Serzh Sargsyan’s political support is insufficient, and that is why the system is advancing its interests rather than Karapetyan’s politics. The truth, of course, in this case is somewhere in the middle, or not at all in the Sargsyan-Karapetyan range. Practically, the reason was the same in the Sargsyan-Abrahamian plane: the issue of power was not resolved, therefore there could be no economic policy. There is an economic war within the ruling system, which, of course, is going on secretly. not in the most literal sense of the word, but in its very logic. War for economic resources, because they will also predetermine the issue of power. The peculiarity of that war is that the biggest loss is not the participants, but the society and the state. Perhaps the participants don’t even have a loss, they just either increase what they have, or in the worst case, preserve what they have.”

Banants and Pyunik do not decide the winner (video)

Jagharian Tania
  • 18:05 | October 28,2017 | Sports
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The first meeting of the 11th tour of Armenian national football team took place today.

Yerevan’s Banants hosted Yerevan’s Pyunik. An effective draw (1:1) was registered.

In the 67th minute, Petros Avetisyan opened the score and drove the guests forward. Banants quickly restored the balance. Rumyan Hovsepyan scored the goal in the 73rd minute.

After this game, Banants scored 14 points, while Pyunik scored 7 points, and the teams remained on the fourth and fifth places respectively.

La recette du week-end : le goût de l’Arménie

Jagharian Tania
Next.Libération, France
14 oct 2017
La recette du week-end : le goût de l’Arménie

Par Jacky Durand — 14 octobre 2017 à 11:48
Boulettes d’agneau Keuftés. Recette issue du livre “Cuisine d’Arménie” aux éditions Solar

On est tous un cuisinier de quelque part. Un bout de mémoire accroché à une recette, à un ingrédient qui revient comme le ressac du temps quand on se met aux fourneaux, qu’on flâne sur le marché du samedi matin ou que l’on maraude dans un verger en friches. Des voix, des visages, des lieux nous parviennent alors quand le beurre murmure dans la poêle appelant la hampe de bœuf ; quand l’ail se déploie dans l’huile d’olive ; quand la pâte à brioche se lève comme une paire de seins tièdes et lourds.

On ne dira jamais assez que le boire et le manger sont des racines vivaces comme le chiendent, des graines fécondes et voyageuses comme celle de la mauve courant parmi les villes et les campagnes. La bouffe mondialisée dit tout cela comme une voie lactée de goûts où chacun retrouve les siens tout en découvrant d’autres. A tous les fâcheux qui pensent racines = terroirs = replis sur soi, on oppose justement le grand festin d’échanges, d’ouverture et de tolérance que sont nos histoires culinaires, tout à la fois intimes, collectives et culturelles. Cuisiner, manger, boire sont l’humus et les fruits de la transmission.

Pour toutes ces raisons, on a ressenti une grosse bouffée de tendresse quand on a reçu Cuisine d’Arménie, de Corinne et Richard Zarzavatdjian (1). Elle est comédienne, il est journaliste et, surtout, ils sont frères et sœurs. «Zarzavatdjian… Un nom dérivé d’un terme évoquant “ce qui provient de la terre”, rappelant la profession de nos ancêtres, cultivateurs, primeurs, légumiers, comme on disait au pays», écrivent-ils à l’orée de ce livre qu’ils ont concocté en se replongeant dans les carnets de recettes de leur mère et en se remémorant les repas de fêtes de leur enfance. «Chacun d’entre nous avait son plat de prédilection qui venait souvent récompenser de bonnes notes à l’école ou un comportement exemplaire à la maison. Et lorsque l’on remplissait les deux qualités, on avait droit “au roi des mangés”, comme disait notre grand-père Garabed, ancien mineur à Gardanne à son arrivée en France, devenu chef d’entreprise dans le Sentier parisien. Pour notre grand frère Raffi, c’était le gatnabour, un dessert de riz au lait qu’il affectionne aujourd’hui encore.»

Toutes les histoires de migration embarquent des recettes, des plats mémoriels plus ou moins reproduits, adaptés à leur nouvel horizon avec souvent des ingrédients incontournables que l’on cultive même au jardin ou dans le verger. Ainsi, l’aubergine, l’agneau, les fruits (coing, grenade, raisin…) et les épices font partie du bréviaire culinaire arménien que l’on retrouve à Marseille, à Décines mais aussi aux Etats-Unis, en Australie, en Argentine… Corinne et Richard Zarzavatdjian racontent le sumac que leur tante récoltait dans son potager à Luynes (Indre-et-Loire). Cette épice provenant d’un arbuste méditerranéen «apporte une saveur acidulée et fruitée aux farces, aux salades, aux viandes et poissons et remplace aisément le citron, parfois le vinaigre, en ajoutant une note originale».

C’est tout le formidable pouvoir de suggestion de la cuisine qui revient dans ce livre pour dire qu’un peuple, une identité, une culture – en l’occurrence arméniens – peuvent survivre à toutes les barbaries, les pogroms, les nettoyages ethniques, en fricassant et en mangeant.

On a choisi la recette des boulettes d’agneau (keuftés) pour évoquer la cuisine d’Arménie. Il vous faut 500 g de viande de mouton ou d’agneau hachée ; 1 œuf ; 1 gousse d’ail (facultatif) ; une biscotte trempée dans l’eau ; un oignon émincé ; du beurre ou de l’huile d’arachide ; un demi-bouquet de persil haché ; de la farine pour rouler les boulettes. Préparez les boulettes. Mélangez bien tous les ingrédients. Puis formez des boulettes de la taille d’une mandarine et aplatissez-les légèrement. Farinez de tous les côtés. Mettez-les à rissoler dans une poêle avec un peu de beurre ou d’huile, selon votre choix, d’abord à feu vif pendant cinq minutes, puis réduisez le feu et laissez cuire encore cinq bonnes minutes. Servez aussitôt, avec du riz nature ou une salade verte.

Vous pouvez servir ces keuftés accompagnés de sauce tomate. Pour cela, il vous faut deux, trois tomates bien mûres ; une cuillère à café de concentré de tomates ; du sel et du poivre. Lavez, pelez, épépinez, puis coupez les tomates en morceaux. Placez-les dans la même poêle que vous avez utilisée pour le keuftés avec un peu de beurre et le concentré de tomates dilué dans un peu d’eau. Laissez mijoter cinq à dix minutes. Salez et poivrez. Déposez les keuftés dans cette sauce et faites-les réchauffer. Servez aussitôt avec, par exemple, des pâtes fraîches.

(1) Cuisine d’Arménie de Corinne et Richard Zarzavatdjian. Préface d’André Manoukian (Solar éditions, 2017, 28 euros).

Armenia Has New Strategy to Help Terminally Ill

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Gurgen G., who had a brain tumor, and his mother. Gurgen participated in a palliative care pilot project, which improved the quality of his remaining life. He died in August 2012, free from pain. (Photo: New Media Advocacy Project)

YEREVAN (Human Rights Watch) – About 8,000 people die from cancer in Armenia every year, many spending their last days in excruciating pain.

But Armenia has recently taken two important steps toward ending their suffering. In February, the government adopted a national strategy to introduce palliative care services, which focuses on pain relief and improving the quality of life, and in March, it registered two forms of liquid oral morphine, paving the way for their use in the public healthcare system.

The World Health Organization considers oral morphine, which is swallowed, the cornerstone of cancer pain treatment. Currently, only injectable morphine is available in Armenia.

The national strategy focuses on treating pain and other physical symptoms, and provides psychosocial support for people with life-threatening illnesses. It specifies reforms in policy, education, and medicines’ availability, and designates state institutions that will be responsible for carrying out these reforms.

In July 2015, Human Rights Watch published a report and video showing the impact of untreated pain and lack of support services on the lives of cancer patients and their families in Armenia. I interviewed many people who were dying – in horrible pain.

Lyudmila, a 61-year-old kindergarten teacher, told me, “The pain attacks start unexpectedly, and I start screaming and become a different person…. I can’t speak. I have pain attacks every night…. It’s … unbearable pain for a human being….”

Her experience was not an exception.

When treatment to cure cancer is no longer effective, patients with advanced cancer in Armenia are sent home, essentially abandoned by the health care system at arguably the most vulnerable time of their lives. They face pain, fear, and anguish without professional support. Some of the support they need is palliative care.

Morphine, the mainstay medication for treating severe pain, is inexpensive and easy to administer, but fewer than 3 percent of those who need morphine in Armenia get it. That’s because of the nearly insurmountable bureaucratic barriers around the prescribing and dispensing of morphine, which the new strategy should change.

The Armenian government has long recognized the need for palliative care, yet took more than three years to develop and adopt the strategy and action plan and ensure that oral morphine is registered. The strategy recognizes the need to amend regulations restricting access to pain relief medications, and the government plans to review them in 2018. Armenia’s thousands of cancer patients have waited long enough.

Criminal case initiated on hindering journalist’s activities

Jagharian Tania
  • 15:53 | October 9,2017 | Official
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On October 7 P. Fahradyan reported to Yeghegnadzor Police Department of the RA that on the same day at 11.00, in the medical center of Shatin, Vayots Dzor region, in the performance of his journalistic professional duties the director of the same center Z.M., her sister, working in the center as a doctor, as well as A. S., the head of the community Karagluh, prevented his journalistic professional activities, tried to snatch the video camera, and also to erase the contents of the carrier, about 9 minutes kept him in one of the offices of the medical institution.

Taking into account the fact that the materials present the obstruction of the legal professional activity of the journalist, a criminal case was initiated in the Vayots Dzor Prosecutor’s Office pursuant to Article 164 (Part 1) of the RA Criminal Code. Paylak Fahradyan was recognized as a victim.

The criminal case was sent to the Vayots Dzor Regional Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia, for the pre-qualification review and the full-scale implementation of the case, the RA Prosecutor General’s Office reports

Italian investor establishes pizza production in Syunik, vows top quality food, job conditions

Jagharian Tania 
Armenpress News Agency , Armenia
October 7, 2017 Saturday
Italian investor establishes pizza production in Syunik, vows top
quality food, job conditions
KAPAN, OCTOBER 7, ARMENPRESS. Italian chef Nikola Di Mauro arrived to
Armenia from Rome to establish a semi-finished/frozen pizza production
in Syunik province.
According to him, he is here to not only ensure high quality food but
also to create quality conditions for the employees.
“I’ve worked on a new project in Syunik for the past 1 and a half
year. The pizzas will be exported to the Eurasian market. The
semi-finished pizza will be prepared in an Italian style, however with
exclusively local products. We will try to buy the products from
adjacent areas of Syunik, which will contribute to the company’s
financial savings”, the chef told a press conference.
He said they plan to produce nearly 250,000 pizzas monthly. The
minimal number of employees for 1-line production unit will be 50,
while the maximum number for 3 lines is 150.
“We tried to maximally minimize the automation of our production in
order to create more jobs. Qualified personnel will work in the
factory. The factory was been constructed with the highest
international standard equipment. The equipment is entirely Italian,
and will provide the highest result. Food processing will also be high
level”, Di Mauro said.
“I decided to realize this program in Syunik by taking into account
the willingness of the local authorities and their attention for the
locals. The leadership of the province is trying to solve all issues,
which is a very important factor for foreign business”, he said.

Azerbaijani Press: President Ilham Aliyev: "If Azerbaijan leaves the Council of Europe, nothing will change in our life"

Jagharian Tania 
Azeri-Press news agency (APA), Azerbaijan
October 5, 2017 Thursday
President Ilham Aliyev: "If Azerbaijan leaves the Council of Europe,
nothing will change in our life"
"The issue of secession from the Council of Europe was touched upon
here. You are well acquainted with our media, because I do not have
information that this or that official Azerbaijani person expressed
such an opinion. However, the media are free and can write whatever
they want. We, of course, react to the mood of the public, and any
government, first of all, must take public opinion into account.
Unfortunately, public opinion related to the Council of Europe is not
so positive," said Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyevat a meeting with
a delegation of the Political and Security Committee of the Council of
the European Union.
The Head of State noted that there are several reasons for this:
"Firstly, when we joined this organization, our expectations were
related to the fact that it will help us in the settlement of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. However, the Council of Europe did not
succeed in this matter, this case did not work, and it will not work.
Secondly, at the beginning of our membership I was the first head of
our delegation. At that time, I was a member of the Azerbaijani
parliament and in 2001-2003 led the Azerbaijani delegation to the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. That is, I know what
this organization is and how it relates to Azerbaijan. The attitude
was extremely negative. We joined this organization on the same day as
Armenia and compared the extremely negative attitude towards
Azerbaijan with a positive attitude towards Armenia. Armenia, where
elections are constantly falsified, kill politicians in the
parliament, where terrorism can be said to have been adopted at the
level of official policy, which occupied the territory of another
state and caused suffering to millions of people as a result of war
crimes, was always cared for by lobby groups in PACE, but Azerbaijan
was constantly attacked. "

Unidentified man attempts to use device to disable alarm, cross Armenian-Turkish border

Jagharian Tania
| 17:19 | September 25 2017
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Russian border guards of Artashat’s checkpoint arrested an unidentified man who illegally crossed the Armenian-Turkish border in the Yeraskh section.

The border guard service of Russia’s FSB told ARMENPRESS the man attempted to use a special device to disable the alarm system. The trespasser didn’t have any ID on him upon arrest.

According to the trespasser, he is a 32-year-old Iranian citizen. The National Security Service of Armenia is currently clarifying the identity of the trespasser. This is the second border crossing attempt in a week.

BAKU: Beijing-Yerevan military co-op jeopardizes Russia’s interests in South Caucasus

Jagharian Tania
Trend, Azerbaijan
Sept 5 2017
5 September 2017 21:15 (UTC+04:00)                                     

We have written many times that China is intent upon entering the South Caucasus region through its back door, that is, through Armenia.

As a realization of this intention, China has recently held a foundation laying ceremony for its embassy in Yerevan, which will be the second biggest embassy in the Eurasian region after Russia’s embassy complex.

It is obvious that the size of the Chinese embassy is proportional to Beijing’s interests in the region as the size means a bigger number of employees.

Surprisingly, this interest of China has been recently confirmed in military cooperation, which promises many problems for Russia.

The matter here rests in an agreement signed in Beijing during the Armenian Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan’s visit to China where he met with his Chinese counterpart Chang Wanquan. According to the agreement, China will provide Armenia with 10 million yuan, or about $1.5 million.

During their meeting, Sargsyan and Wanquan stressed the importance of bilateral cooperation in training of military personnel. Sargsyan said the Armenian servicemen who graduate from Chinese military colleges become good officers and commanders, while Armenia is ready to expand a training program for Chinese military specialists.

What Sargsyan didn’t mention is that the Armenian military can only teach how to occupy other countries’ lands.

But why doesn’t Beijing question the dubious pleasure of helping an aggressor country and agrees to train its soldiers?

However, if we look at the issue from another side, it becomes obvious that the trained Armenian officers can perform certain functions for Beijing, taking into account China’s interests in the region, in general, in the zone of Russia’s influence in the South Caucasus and in particular, in Armenia.

China’s interest in Armenia became evident in 2015 when Chinese enterprises were ready to submit proposals on making investments in the Iran-Armenia railway. Nothing happened that time, but China voiced some plans and promises to the Armenian side.

China has recently become more active, when the China Machinery Engineering Corporation stated that it plans to make large-scale investments in Armenia’s construction and energy sectors.

At present, China is penetrating Armenia’s military not only by allocating funds, but also by participating in personnel training, which should make Moscow think about consequences.

Armenian armed forces have recently been more connected with the Russian military. For instance, Russia’s Federation Council ratified an agreement on the United Group of Russian and Armenian Troops in July. The United Group of Troops of Armenia and Russia will have to protect the land borders and airspace of the two countries. The countries also agreed to create a joint air defense system.

It means that the Armenian officers, having access to the Armenian military projects, will be able to tell a lot of interesting things about the Russian part of the projects.

And, of course, it is doubtful that Moscow will sit idly while China is strengthening its positions in Armenia. Yerevan will be forbidden to develop relations with China, just like it was diverted from cooperation with NATO.

BAKU: Armenia’s drift towards NATO and panic among Moscow Armenians

Jagharian Tania
News.az, Azerbaijan

Aug 21 2017

Mon 11:13 GMT | 7:13 Local Time

The attitude towards Armenia’s obvious drift towards NATO in the Armenian society and among the Armenian elite is different.

Pro-Western Armenians do not hide their enthusiasm with this fact and are waiting for the moment when Armenia finally “throws away” Russia and runs under the wing of a new “ally” – the US, in order to start a new stage of aggression against its neighbors. However, such prodigies are not shared by the pro-Armenian forces that settled in Moscow.

Obviously, if Armenia betrays Russia and finally surrenders to the US and NATO, the fate of the powerful Armenian lobby in Russia will be unenviable and their positions will shaken. Including the positions of “near-Armenian” figures, such as the editor-in-chief of Regnum news agency Modest Kolerov.

After all, Kolerov and others like him managed to create the image of “the great patriots of Russia” among the Russian public, and the illusion that Armenia is the ‘surest ally of Russia’. But if Armenia betrays Russia, Kolerov won’t be able to play the same game anymore.

It will also become clear that for many years Modest Kolerov, as well as all kinds of Baghdasaryans, Margaritas Simonyans and others like them, fooled the Russian society, made them support the regime, which eventually ended up betraying Russia and becoming the enemy of their country. In this case the representatives of Moscow Armenian lobby will also be suspected of betrayal, and, as a result, “the money flows” of Russian Armenians will be excommunicated. And their lives become more complicated – since no matter how naive the Russians are, they will hardly finance Armenian structures after Armenia joins the ranks of Russia’s enemies.

Therefore, it was not accidental that the material of Sargis Artsruni entitled “Moscow incites Azerbaijan to a new war” recently published on the website of Armenia’s pro-Western First Information expresses an extremely negative reaction on the attitude of the same Modest Kolerov to the rapprochement between Armenia and NATO which goes contrary to the aspirations of the pro-Western “First Information”  .

Sargis Artsruni writes: “In Moscow they can not accept the fact that Armenia took part in NATO military exercises held in Georgia. Even if this participation of Yerevan was agreed with Moscow, the situation changed drastically after the new US sanctions against Russia and against the backdrop of US Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to Georgia. Several Russian publications openly question the loyalty of the Armenian authorities.

In an interview with the First Information, the editor-in-chief of the Regnum news agency, political analyst Modest Kolerov, who is known for his connections with the Kremlin, spoke rather harshly. “Armenia itself said that it has solidarity with NATO. And this solidarity takes place with the joint participation with Turkey and Azerbaijan. That’s all. And if Armenia participates in such projects jointly with Turkey and Azerbaijan, it does not mean that it does not need a united military group with Russia. So, let Armenia call on NATO to reconcile it with Turkey and Azerbaijan, ” Kolerov said.

In this case, Sargis Artsruni accuses Modest Kolerov of lies and fraudulent facts. In particular, he writes:

“Russian officials and experts have tactics to bring their message or even threat to the appropriate audience at all means – even resorting to obvious falsifications. For example, Kolerov obviously deceives readers, giving the impression that Azerbaijan participated in military exercises in Georgia. Or the political scientist creates a completely false picture that Moscow is allegedly occupied with the Armenian-Azerbaijani or Armenian-Turkish reconciliation processes, and this is when Moscow arms the parties to the Karabakh conflict, and the Russian military base deployed in Armenia is one of the obstacles to the probable Armenian-Turkish rapprochement. However, all these manipulations are trifles in comparison with tthe threat clearly voiced by Kolerov. “So, let Armenia call on NATO to reconcile it with Turkey and Azerbaijan,” Kolerov said, diplomatically making it clear that Armenia will pay a high price for participation in NATO exercises.

The conclusion of the First Information is purely speculative. Sargis Artsruni believes that Moscow has found a “legitimate” basis for issuing carte blanche to Azerbaijan for a new war – it is supposedly the Armenian authorities’ review of their foreign policy. In his opinion, Moscow makes it clear that if Armenia continues to cooperate with NATO, or even signs a new agreement with NATO, they will provoke Azerbaijan to a new war against Armenia – laying the blame on our “pro-Western” authorities.

But the fact is that the sale of arms to Azerbaijan and Russian-Azerbaijani defense cooperation which is absolutely legitimate and mutually beneficial and consistent with Russia’s interests is just being presented by the supporters of betrayal of Russia by Armenia as a “proof” of the fact that ‘Russia is not Armenia’s friend’. And these theses are repeated again and again.

Thus, a split has emerged in the formerly monolithic international Armenian lobby. Russian Armenians began to realize that the betrayal of Russia by Armenia could touch them personally. And they frantically try to “slow down” the process in the present stage, when Armenia seems to continue to remain Russia’s ally, while flirting with the West.

But such an”intermediate” state can not be preserved forever. Either here or there. And, judging by the latest trends, it is rather “there”. Armenia’s insidiousness as an ally and treacherous essence of the Yerevan regime will soon become apparent even to the most naive Russian patriots.

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