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After the extraordinary NA elections held on June 20, 2021, the Azerbaijani propaganda machine had announced “Azerbaijan and the Armenian village won”, noting that most of those who voted for Nikol Pashinyan came from rural areas, while Robert Kocharyan was voted by urban residents, and making it clear that the 44-day war and its outcome gave Pashinyan the opportunity to intimidate the Armenian public.

In other words, using this fact, he was able to build his pre-election campaign on the agenda of peace. It is another matter that we had wars after that.

However, in this context, the Azerbaijani side presented 3 problems to the “Civil Agreement” party and its leader, which won the 2021 NA extraordinary elections.

First, In the context of the widespread defeat in the 44-day war of 2020, Yerevan must fulfill its obligations to finish the demarcation and demarcation process, achieve the unblocking of transport communications, or at least continue the discussion of these issues in a positive way and with a working schedule.

Second, regulate the economic-economic life of Armenia so that it can recover from the defeat and restore the economy in the conditions of the current realities.

Third, it is necessary to change the public traumatic consciousness of revenge, and direct its energy in a different direction. In other words, to explain to the Armenian society that the country needs revival, not revenge.

Nikol Pashinyan, who later admitted: “In 2021, he went for extraordinary elections because he felt that his legitimacy was at least in question after the war. cannot continue to be prime minister”. in these 5 years, he tried to fulfill the above-mentioned problems of Azerbaijan, of course, without reaching the finish line, which he promised to do during the campaign period of the 2026 National Assembly elections. In other words, Pashinyan tried to convince the public, the public living under the Turk’s nose, that if he is not there, there will be a war, that peace is established, but it has the vulnerability of a newborn child, so it should be taken care of and strengthened.

On the other hand, the government tried to collect dividends at the expense of the army, which did not destroy it, but built it.

And in the context of the defeat in the 44-day war, compared to the 2021 elections, Pashinyan did not try to justify himself, and to do so at the expense of making accusations against the military leadership of the 44-day war.

We remember, don’t we, the “shootout” between Onik Gasparyan and Nikol Pashinyan, the former head of the RA Armed Forces General Staff, during the 2021 NA emergency elections, when General Pashinyan blamed General Pashinyan for the loss of Shushi, that he will answer for this in court, that Onik Gasparyan agreed to sign the November 9 document with the clause about Tavush, and he did not agree to it, etc. And the former head of the General Staff called his one-time superior a liar, but that did not prevent a closed meeting related to the 44-day war months ago. offer.

By the way, in 2021, Onik Gasparyan supported the second president of the Republic of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, which he loudly announced. He knows whom the former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia Davit Tonoyan supported at that time. But before the 2026 elections, without naming names, he made it clear that he “supports” the opposition force and that he will not vote for Nikol Pashinyan.

Moreover, the support shown by Samvel Karapetyan in the briefing with journalists had confirmed and note that it has been substantial, varied and quite useful.

This was not left unanswered by Nikol Pashinyan during the big pre-election debate, in response to the question of Narek Karapetyan representing “Strong Armenia”, and he “threw into the hall” that “that minister is now being tried with you”. In essence, it put the “junk missile” case on par with the money laundering charge. But this is a separate topic for discussion.

Let’s go back to the NA elections and talk about Baku’s reaction to the results recorded or drawn by the CP during the election process that took place on June 7, 2026.

This time, the propaganda machine of Baku announced that the results of the RA NA elections are Aliyev’s strategic victory. He published an article with a similar quote minval.azand noted that Pashinyan should take concrete actions after the elections. This is also reported by other Azerbaijani propaganda media to write

What is it about?

First, Complete liquidation (elimination) of all elements, structures and residual institutions related to the Karabakh issue in Armenia, because, according to Baku, they politically incite passions, contradict the spirit of the peace process.

Second, the Aliyev propaganda machine did not limit itself to this and proposed to close the “Karabakh representative” organizations and structures operating in a foreign country as well.

Third, Aliyev’s most important demand-expectation is the amendment of the RA constitution, the expulsion of the Declaration of Independence from it, which, according to Baku, contains territorial claims and can be used by the opposition.

In other words, Aliyev demands practical evidence from Pashinyan whether he really wants to institutionalize peace.

“Only after this will it be possible to say that the Armenian elections were not just the victory of one party, but the beginning of a new page for the entire South Caucasus. And for now, this is primarily a political advance given by the Armenian society to the course leading to peace. And Baku has the right to expect that this advance will be confirmed by concrete decisions, and not by regular statements.” write vesti.az.

By the way, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, Tofik Zulfugarov, also promptly responded to the results of the Armenian elections.

“I congratulate the citizens of Azerbaijan that the “iron fist” was able to cure about 57 percent of the citizens of Armenia from “political schizophrenia” under the name of “Miatsum”. This process should be continued,” he wrote.

In other words, the former official of Azerbaijan, who is going for peace with Armenia, insults the Armenian society and threatens with an “iron fist” reminiscent of the 44 days, which, of course, will remain unanswered.

168.am– on May 21 with the article “Zulfugarov “accuses” Pashinyan of prematurely celebrating the victory of peace” was an article publish

And in April too? we wrote that the former foreign minister of Azerbaijan said the following in one of the interviews.

“And when we start asking who is the most beneficial for us, to be honest, I don’t quite understand why we need it. Yes, we have to monitor the situation, work with the whole political spectrum and neutralize any potential risks, that’s obvious. But I am not ready to say whether Pashinyan is better or Kocharyan is better. Even if we imagine that Kocharyan comes to power, and what will fundamentally change it, what will they start a war with us, with what forces, what resources, how will they take Karabakh, they do not have such an opportunity. And Russia is not going to do it for them, as it was in the early 90s.”

In any case, from Baku’s reaction, it can be clearly said that Nikol Pashinyan’s stay in power is beneficial for Baku and not only. Zulfugarov was, in fact, right in one thing when he said: Pashinyan remains under Russian influence and did not consider him anti-Russian.

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In recent days on the Internet, especially՝ Various Azerbaijani media platforms spread the news that a cuneiform inscription related to the joint reign of Urartan Ishpuin and Menua was found or rediscovered on Mount Odzasar in Nakhichevan. What is the purpose of this Azerbaijani propaganda?

We talked with Mikael Badalyan, candidate of historical sciences, archaeologist, urologist, former director of “Erebun” historical-archaeological reserve-museum.

– Mr. Badalyan, in recent days the news has been spreading on the Internet, especially by various Azerbaijani media platforms, that a cuneiform record related to the joint reign of Urartian Ishpuin and Menua was found or rediscovered on Odzasar Mountain in Nakhichevan. This news is also spreading in Armenia. As a urartologist,՞what can you say about that?

– In fact, the Urartian inscription of Odzasar was discovered in 1988 by the director of the seismological and analytical center of the National Seismic Protection Service of the Republic of Armenia, candidate of geological sciences V. by Igumnov. V. of 1996 Igumnovi, H. Karagyozyan and S. Hmayakyan published an article on the Odzasar inscription and its reading in the “Historical Journal”. Later, prominent urologists N. Harutyunyan and M. Salvini also published articles on that record, introducing certain clarifications for its reading. In recent years, the famous urologist R. Dan, and to the cultic aspects mentioned in its text, also the author of my stanzas.

The record mentions Ishpuini and Menua conquering the lands of the cities of Artsin and Aniani, erecting a monument in honor of the god Khaldi, and offering animal sacrifices to Khaldi and Khaldi’s wife.

Odzasar is located near Khoshakunik settlement of historical Armenia.

– What do you think?՞What is the purpose of spreading the Odzasar protocol now? Yes?՞Does it have a purely scientific purpose?՞ may also have political implications.

– Why exactly in this period did the Azerbaijanis start spreading the news of finding the Odzasar inscription? In addition, they already say that the record documents the presence of the Urartian power in Nakhichevan and also mention that there was also a frontier.

Until recently, Azerbaijanis officially forbade mentioning and writing that there was a presence of the Urartian power in Nakhichevan. Even a fragment of a typical Urartian jar identified by a cuneiform inscription found at Oghlan Kala was considered to be a manifestation of local writing. They even tried to force foreign scientists working in Nakhijevan to mention in their works that there are no traces of Urartian presence in Nakhijevan.

One of the vivid proofs of this is the famous American archaeologist, Bradley Parker’s “Azeri Nationalism and the Silencing of the Past”, which is the text of his report, where the famous scientist put the message of his letter and the letter addressed to him by the Azerbaijanis, in which the latter tries to convince Parker that the fortresses of Nakhichevan are not Urartian.

However, now we see once again that Odzasar’s inscription was rediscovered in Nakhijevan. A question arises. if they really wanted to, they could have found that record earlier. Another question arises, why did they just now start to present about that record, talk about the Urartian heritage in Nakhijevan? It is very interesting that in the shameful map of Urartu of the 7th grade Armenian history textbook, which was never changed, there is no current Republic of Armenia, there is no Erebuni, that is, the current Republic of Armenia is not included in the map of Urartu. But hey, Nakhichevan is included. Let me remind you that the first theory regarding the origin of Armenians is presented in the same textbook, that according to the Balkan hypothesis, the ancestors of Armenians are Phrygian colonists who migrated from the Balkans. Not a word about the Erebuni-Yerevan connection, on Tigran the Great’s map it is Azerbaijan, and so on…

Currently, Azerbaijanis have started preaching that Armenians have nothing to do with Urartu. In my personal opinion, these circumstances may indicate that a process has begun, a planned process at that, when they are trying to take Urartu from us. Moreover, if earlier Turkey claimed Urartu, the kingdom of Ararat, now Azerbaijan is also making an application.

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In the extraordinary session of June 8, the Central Electoral Commission ratified the protocol of preliminary results of the regular elections of June 7, 2026.

Accordingly, the total number of voters included in the voter lists was 2503981, the total number of voters in the additional list of voters drawn up in the polling station on the day of the election: 1237, the total number of voters in the additional list of voters who voted with mobile boxes: 1178, the number of voters who participated in electronic voting: 410, the total number of voters: 2507216, the total number of voting participants: 1477736

On June 6, the Migration and Citizenship Service of the RA Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that as of June 6, the day before the NA elections to be held on June 7, 2026, the total number of voters included in the RA voter register was 2 million 485 thousand 851.

Since the day before yesterday, there has been talk about “secret lists” with the inclusion of which, according to CEC, changed the previously published figure of 2 million 485 thousand 851 voters.

What kind of “classified list” is there, are they lists of military personnel or other closed systems personnel? 168․aminquired from Seda Ghukasyan, press secretary of the CEC president.

“Our lists include all those citizens who have the right to vote. If it is a secret list, it means that it is not subject to publication. those lists also contain information that is not subject to publication, so I cannot detail who they are and what number there is.

This applies to all elections. the lists of the CEC and the Ministry of Internal Affairs never match,” explained Seda Ghukasyan.

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Political scientist Vazgen Hovhannisyan in my opinion, the change in the foreign political vector of any country takes place when there is a potential for it, at the moment, RA foreign policy does not have a clear strategic logic, and this means at least a policy aimed at neutralizing Armenia’s external threats.

“We know that external threats come from Turkey and Azerbaijan. For example, when Aliyev says something, he clearly turns it into politics, his goal is that he wants to lead the statehood of Armenia to its dismantling.

Aliyev talks about the implementation of the “Western Azerbaijan” narrative, that is, he put forward this discourse, a paradigm. He adopts clear resolutions, tries to “probe” the Armenian environment, make it a subject of discussion, and then move from a clear action plan to its implementation.” of 168.am Vazgen Hovhannisyan mentioned in a conversation with

According to the political scientist, Aliyev is talking about the “corridor”, what the TRIPP government will call is another question, but Aliyev had the ideological basis of this “corridor” for which he fought. In other words, this means uninterrupted entry and exit through the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia.

“We see that these foreign political dangers exist, but steps aimed at neutralization by the Armenian side are not being implemented,” he emphasized.

Regarding the statements regarding the diversification of foreign policy, Vazgen Hovhannisyan said that for diversification, first of all, you need to have a power resource, but, unfortunately, Armenia does not have that resource.

“What is happening today is not a diversification of foreign policy, but a magic of foreign policy, the price of which will be paid by the Armenian people.

Ensuring the interest of any state is the possible increase in the dose of force and the neutralization of the threat, that is, the behavioral model of the state is conditioned by the fact that it will neutralize the threats and, if possible, increase the dose of force. In the anarchic environment of international relations, you are thus able to ensure the vitality of your state.

If we take this model I mentioned and apply it to the behavior of our state, we will see that we are not a rational actor, that is, our actions are not aimed at neutralizing threats. How can you give a corridor to your opponent and consider it a neutralization of the threat? Not firing at the border does not mean that the threat has been neutralized, this is a negative “peace”, which enables the enemy to gradually implement the plans he has planned,” our interlocutor emphasized.

Continuing the thought, the political scientist also added that states are exclusively guided by their interests in international relations. If at this moment the interests of the states coincide, and they have not even signed an agreement, and if it is in their interests, then the security risks will be immediately neutralized. There may be legal documents, but if it is not in the interests of the countries, they will not neutralize the threat with these documents.

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In the “Pressing” program Satik Seyranyan The guest is Ruben Mkhitaryan, head of the “My Powerful Community” faction of the Gyumri Council of Elders, public figure, producer. is.

The main theses of the interview are below.

• The government aimed to reproduce itself, for this it received all possible “dabros” from the superpowers to use repression against the opposition and to rig elections, and it did. Nikol Pashinyan and his team pocketed the vote. In 30 years, we have seen many elections, for example, in 1996, but we have not seen that the counting of votes is stopped at night, it is said that it will be in the morning, and in the morning clearly different numbers are presented… If what the CP did in this election, 10% of it was done in the past, we would have seen a rebellious political society, statements of European ambassadors and reports of the Council of Europe.…

• At night, during Nikol Pashinyan’s press conference at 2 o’clock, the faces of the CP members testified that there had been shouting inside before that. Nicole held a press conference to provide the emotional backdrop for the morning’s mockery.

• Former member of the National Assembly: 2021 during the elections, the number of invalid ballots was about 4,000, and now it is about 17,000. In other words, with this shameful number, Nikol wants to say that so many of our people do not know how to vote…

• There are videos of how in Meghri the doors are not closed, the soldiers gathered in the courtyard enter and vote for hours. It is obvious that the soldiers in the army, being under specific pressure, voted for Nikol Pashinyan.

• When entering the voting, there was a case with my relative, when the person giving the ballots recognized that the given voter was in the opposition, they gave two or 17 ballots, or other… All possible frauds were made to consider these elections as illegitimate.

• The opposition this time gathered 100,000 more votes than in 2021, and Nikol gathered 40,000 more votes in 5 years.

• Nikoli needed 64 mandates in order to collect 3/5 of the votes and be able to appoint important positions. IF “Prosperous Armenia” (PAP) had passed, it would not have received so many mandates, but would have received only 61 mandates. In case of 64 mandates, it can adopt constitutional laws. He needs 6 more for a constitutional majority.

It should be noted that according to the RA Constitution, at least 3/5 of the votes of the total number of deputies is necessary for the adoption of constitutional laws, including the adoption/amendment of the Law on the Regulations of the National Assembly, the Electoral Code, the Judicial Code, the Law on the Constitutional Court, the Law on the Referendum, the Law on Parties, and the Law on the Defender of Human Rights. 

Without 3/5, the CP of Nikol Pashinyan cannot elect or dismiss the judges of the Constitutional Court, the Court of Cassation, the members of the Supreme Judicial Council. 

Without 3/5, the CP cannot elect or dismiss the Prosecutor General, the Defender of Human Rights.

He cannot elect or dismiss the members of the Central Electoral Commission, the members of the Television and Radio Commission, the members of the Audit Chamber, the President of the Central Bank.

Moreover, if the CP has 3/5 of the votes, it is not enough to make amendments to the Constitution or put the fundamental articles of the Constitution to a referendum.

Nor can Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliyev change the RA Constitution through a referendum or adopt a new Constitution, change the preamble and remove the reference to the Declaration of Independence. Without 2/3 of the parliamentary votes, the ruling party, the Communist Party, cannot put to a referendum the amendments to the fundamental articles of the Constitution, which also refers to the preamble of the Constitution.

• The opposition must go after their mandates, enter the National Assembly and give up their mandates, otherwise Nikol’s chief prosecutor will go after them one by one. Nicole engaged in voice pickpocketing to solve her minimal problem.

• Nikol said that he will take 700,000 votes, and he took that much. He did not announce that number by accident. Even before the Gyumri elections, he announced that he would win 17,000 votes. The large participation of people mixed their playing cards in Gyumri and in these elections. If 1,200,000 people participated, he would get a stable majority. Yes, we have law enforcement agencies that report to Nicole every now and then where their constituents are, and they go and find them. those people…

• Opposition leaders, don’t repeat the mistake of 2021. Get in touch with your constituents, own the mandates, take them and put them down:

• It is obvious that in Armenia, if you remove the administrative resource, Nikol Pashinyan is at the weakest level of support.

• Dear Samvel Karapetyan, Robert Kocharyan, Gagik Tsarukyan, you will be seated. And you sat down, people from your teams will take you, as soon as you entered the National Assembly. You’re enabling him to kidnap people. And it’s not like everyone in your lists is invulnerable and tough. After 10 days, there will be apathetic moods in your teams. Those people will be lost, you may not even find them… The movie is just starting. You have managed to get so many votes and own your votes in all this ugliness, now it’s your turn to do the rest:

• If it stays like this, in 5 years the map that Nicole stuck on his dosh will be reduced to the size of a hat brooch.

• If they only want a mandate to hand over peredach to political prisoners, I promise, I will take everything upon myself, people in detention centers will be safe, they will not starve. But I have seen the activities of the opposition members of our parliament in the last 5 years. Dear opposition, don’t take away the next 5 years from us. 

• The opposition forces, including Arman Tatoyan and Hayk Marutyan, managed to generate a significant number of votes. It is obvious that the leader of the opposition is Samvel Karapetyan. You have done a great job, I will bear your pain, stand up for your votes.

Details in the video.

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