Author: Karapet Navasardian

Today is the anniversary of the death of Andranik Margaryan, the former Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, the former President of the RPA. On that occasion, the members of the Republican Party led by the third president of RA, Serzh Sargsyan, visited the Pantheon to lay flowers on the grave of Andranik Margaryan.

Journalists asked the Third President what message Andranik Margaryan left and to what extent they implemented it.

“We made it a reality to the best of our ability, the ideas are known to all of us, the party program is there. Members of the Republican Party talk about them almost every day. So, the ones who evaluate are our party members, the public,” Serzh Sargsyan said.

At the request of journalists, the Third President also referred to Nikol Pashinyan’s statement that “if the CP does not form an absolute majority in the upcoming elections, there will be a war”, to which Serzh Sargsyan responded:

“They will say whatever they want.”

To the question whether any government has the right to block the right to return to Artsakh, Serzh Sargsyan answered:

“Of course not.”

The Third President apologized to the journalists that he did not have time to stand and answer all the questions, saying that on April 4, the congress of the Republican Party will be held, and all the questions will be addressed there.

Details in the video of 168.am

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Blessing the faithful and amid applause, the leader of the Shirak Diocese, Archbishop Mikael Ajapakhyan, entered the Church of the Holy Mother of God (Seven Wounds) in Gyumri for the first time after his arrest to participate in the Sunday liturgy.

According to the court’s decision, the reverend was allowed to participate in Sunday liturgies and receive communion from March 18, but they have not yet given him the right to celebrate liturgy.

Let’s remind that a criminal case has been initiated against Archbishop Mikael Adjapahyan under the article of public appeals aimed at usurping power, violating territorial integrity, renouncing sovereignty or forcibly overthrowing the constitutional order. He was detained on June 28.
On February 6, the Court of Appeal replaced the priest’s preventive detention with house arrest.

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Kaya Kalas, who has an “anti-Russian maniacal fixation”, sends the “hybrid group” to Armenia in order to prepare a legal and political basis for discrediting the parliamentary elections, but in the late evening of June 7, when Nikol Pashinyan gets an “unpleasant image” with the results of the elections, the state-centered forces of Armenia “should not care” about the conclusion of the “hybrids” and the kayakalas and funderlains standing behind it. About this 168 TVof Revue given to the program in the interview said military expert Davit Jamalyanspeaking on the famous topic of “hybrid attacks”.

According to the military expert, all the state structures of Armenia, including the power structures, are controlled by Western centers today, and the March 10 statement of the Foreign Intelligence Service is also placed in this context. the statement Regarding the attempts of external interference in the electoral processes of Armenia.

“That statement, which, in fact, is just a disgrace, is inherently anti-Russian, but our ties with Russia are so close that they don’t even have the courage to openly state where this “hybrid attack” allegedly came from, but we understand that they are hitting the Russians in the name of this. Why, because the steering wheel of all those structures is actually not in our hands. The same head of the Intelligence Service was trained in Britain for a long time and was appointed the head of the Intelligence Service. Now, it doesn’t take a lot of intelligence to understand that someone trained in Britain comes and is appointed as the head of the Intelligence Service. It is clear that this service is under very serious British influence,” commented Davit Jamalyan.

The military expert also added that the well-known statement of Kaya Kalas, head of EU diplomacy, about deploying a “hybrid rapid reaction group” in Armenia proves that “Armenia has turned into a European colony” under the current government.

“That statement of Kaya Kalas suggests something else, that under the current government, Armenia has turned into a British colony, you can say, a European colony, you can say, but in any case, it has turned into a quasi-state that has completely lost its sovereignty, because who are the members of that “hybrid group” and what will they do?,” says Davit Jamalyan.

According to the expert, Kalas, an Estonian by nationality, who was the Prime Minister of Estonia, embodies the concentration of Baltic anti-Russian sentiment and has a “maniacal fixation” to harm Russia in every possible way.

“Kalas and Von der Leyen, two women with an anti-Russian maniacal fixation, not only curse the father of Europe, because there is serious opposition in the European zone itself. some of them believe that normal trade should be done with Russia. But they are not interested in Armenia in any other way, apart from building an anti-Russian platform,” added the expert.

According to Jamalyan, they, realizing that Pashinyan’s rating is very low and the probability of his re-election is almost zero, are preparing the legal and political basis for discrediting the future elections from the beginning.

“They will bring those “hybrids” who at some X moment, when an unpleasant picture is obtained for Nikol late in the evening of [June] 7, they will announce that the “elections are rigged because there was a hybrid attack” allegedly from Russia, when that “hybrid group” will announce at some X moment that the elections are not legitimate because, you don’t know, there were allegedly some influences from Russia, for the sake of Kaya Kalas sends them here, our state-centric forces, I’m saying it a bit harshly, but they should care about the conclusions of that “hybrid group” and the point of view of all kinds of Kayakalas and Funderleins standing behind it, and that’s it, power will be formed from the positions of our interests”– said Davit Jamalyan.

Let’s remind that the head of EU diplomacy Kaya Kalas at the press conference held on March 16 announced, that “the European Union, following Armenia’s request, will send a hybrid rapid response team to help counter threats in the run-up to the elections.” Kaya Kalas also noted. “Supporting the resilience of neighborhood democracy remains important. We will not leave Armenia alone to rebuke foreign interference. Democracies under pressure can count on Europe.”

Details in the video.

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After coming to power, the opposition must first of all stop the war and only after that try to achieve a decent peace, because Azerbaijan continues to wage war against Armenia by hybrid and other means. Expressed this opinion 168TVof Revue on the air of the program civil technologist Vigen Hakobyanspeaking about the June 7 parliamentary elections in Armenia.

“We are now in the hybrid phase of the Armenian-Azerbaijani war, we are not in the phase of peace, but in the phase of a hybrid war, that is, the “hot phase” of the war has now simply been replaced by a hybrid one, which, unfortunately, can be replaced at any time, and at the request of Azerbaijan, by the “hot phase” with which Nikol Pashinyan is now scaring us all. Therefore, the main goal of the opposition should be to come to power and first of all to stop the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia, that is, to establish peace, not to talk about bringing an alternative, dignified and different peace. Now a real war is going on between Azerbaijan and Armenia. We must understand that there is no peace, there is war, there are just different forms of war,” Vigen Hakobyan thinks.

According to the political scientist, at the moment we are witnessing the formation of four opposition formats in the political field: “Strong Armenia” led by Samvel Karapetyan, “Armenia” alliance led by the second president of RA, “Proposal to Armenia” initiated by Tsarukyan and the union of “Unity Wings”, “HayaVote” and “Shant” alliance. So far, it is not known whether the Republican Party will participate.

“When talking about these four, it is very important that, tactically, being separate associations, they can be perceived by the public as forces strategically hitting the same goal and hitting the same nail.

In other words, the main goal should be to deprive the current government of its power. The opposition voter, regardless of who he prefers, should understand that as a result of all this, a single opposition pole can be formed, which will be able to deprive the “Civil Pact” of power with joint efforts.

And as for the question in which case the opposition can win, I think that the opposition has quite a good chance to solve its main problem this time,” commented Vigen Hakobyan.

He evaluates the current realities in the following way, that in the case of Pashinyan’s team, in their own perception, keeping the power is an ontological problem in all aspects, and they use every effort and resource to keep the power, and if changing the power is also an ontological problem for the collective opposition, then there will be good opportunities to achieve victory.

“For both the government and the opposition, these elections should be of an ontological nature, that is, no one should have any illusions that if there is a mere mandate struggle, what happened in the last 5 years will continue,” Vigen Hakobyan believes.

According to the civil technologist, the possible “Gyumri 2” scenario of post-election developments, which was given that name by the light hand of the government of the day, reveals their concerns or just fears.

“Many who did not even consider this possibility, did not believe, began to believe, because they saw that the government was quite concerned about such a prospect, moreover, it revealed its fears. Of course, they wanted to solve a different problem, trying to connect everyone with the well-known narratives about the “formers”, says the civil technologist.

According to Vigen Hakobyan, scaring people with a new “September war” is a psychological trick by Pashinyan, because, as we remember, there was a war in September, the 44-day war started in 2020. on September 27.

“From the point of view of political technologies, Nikol Pashinyan does not do anything unexpected, because it was clear from the beginning that one of the main theses of Nikol Pashinyan’s pre-election campaign will be “peace or war?”, that is, he will try to convince that “if I am in power, there will be peace, as they have not fired in the last year and a half.”

In other words, he will try to sell the illusion of peace and in contrast to that, he will say that all the others are “war parties” and his target will be mainly Armenian mothers and families. It is another war blackmail that Nikol Pashinyan has been using in all his propaganda narratives since 2020. A significant part of the 2021 campaign was spent under that mood. Now the hot phase of the pre-election campaign is starting, and it is just more emphatically manipulating it and trying to use the statements that the opposition did not make to support this thesis.

In general, the “September War” is a psychological trick, because there was a war in September, that is, when he says “September War”, associations immediately arise, and many people think that if he says that there will be a war in September, then he definitely knows something. He could even say the date as a political-technological trick to sound more convincing. It is just an artificial statement. It could have been said with the same success in October, it’s just that September is associated with war, just as the month of May was associated with victories for decades,” explained the expert.

According to the geotechnical expert, Nikol Pashinyan’s nervous behavior is also due to the fact that he underestimates what external resources are there to support him, and all his analyzes show that he can only rely on Azerbaijan and Turkey. According to the geotechnical expert, what annoys Pashinyan the most is that for him “it is very uncertain what he is capable of and what tactics Russia will choose in relation to these elections”.

Full interview in the video.

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