After the change of power in 2018, about the cases recorded in the army at different times in publications We asked the question: “Why does the editor-in-chief of “HZ” Anna Hakobyan not ask the “commander-in-chief” Nikol Pashinyan the questions that she once asked Seyran Ohanyan of the Ministry of Defense?” Were they given, at least not publicly?

Moreover, during his parliamentary term Hayk Sargsyan, deputy of CP spoke from the various vicious phenomena encountered in the army, playing lotteries among servicemen, drinking, using drugs, and again, there is no voice that these phenomena are flourishing in civil life, public life, in general, in Armenia, and the fight against which is the responsibility of the country’s leadership. If there is a strong fight here, they will not enter the army, but they will be one in a thousand.

On January 19, 2023, the fire at the Azat shelter took place, in which 15 soldiers died, and Anna Hakobyan did not raise a single voice about the conditions created there for the soldiers, why should a house with no normal conditions become a military shelter, although Nikol Pashinyan did not rush to the scene of the incident, instead, he hurried to put forward a hypothesis about what caused the fire. At that time, even KP deputy Vilen Gabrielyan had announced.

“If I were in the opposition, I would demand the resignation of the Minister of Defense. But I am not an oppositionist, I am Suren Papikyan’s teammate. therefore, I support him in solving the problems in the army.”

Of course, in the case of the current government, changing the Minister of Defense will not bring anything good, if not to say the opposite. Let’s not forget that after the change of government in 2018, we had several ministers: Davit Tonoyan, Vagharshak Harutyunyan, Arshak Karapetyan, and now Suren Papikyan: The same picture is in the case of the Chief of the General Staff: Movses Hakobyan, Artak Davtyan (twice), Onik Gasparyan, Edward Asryan, we still do not count Kamo Kochuntsi’s acting head of the General Directorate for a few months.

Let’s go back to Anna Hakobyan. On July 21, according to the Investigative Committee, soldier Narek Torosyan committed suicide in the Chambarak military unit, he was a student of the Armenian-Russian University. Later, two of his fellow soldiers were arrested on charges of negligent suicide.

And now Anna Hakobyan has decided on this address this case.

«The other day, society was once again shocked by a terrifying incident in the armed forces. one of the servicemen committed suicide act then it became known that two of his fellow soldiers were charged with negligent suicide. This is not the first case, and naturally there is great concern.

And I saw that a number of public organizations made a statement in this regard. And in that statement, they noted that only in 2026, 8 cases of death in non-combat conditions were recorded in the RA Armed Forces, in relation to most of which, according to the reports of the Investigative Committee, criminal proceedings were initiated under the articles of murder and suicide of the RA Criminal Code.

“The study of the cases of death documents that The violence and humiliation of servicemen in the RA armed forces is of a continuous nature and is manifested both by physical violence and by various manifestations of degrading treatment, intimidation, as well as by long-term abuse of official or de facto power.” stated in the statement.

They demand a ban on degrading treatment in the armed forces, prevention of violence and protection of servicemen in vulnerable situations. Many demands have been presented on a number of points, one of them was the one mentioned. They also demand that a multidisciplinary study be carried out as soon as possible to comprehensively assess the causes and contributing factors of violence and suicide, including the study of previous incidents of violence, command responses, psychological risks and other influencing circumstances, and make it public.

Naturally, the authors of this statement and not only them are extremely concerned and are looking for a solution. No one can remain indifferent to such cases, and the concern is shared by all. When I searched for the mentioned announcement with keywords to quote, I came across a news item with the same title, after opening it I saw that it was a 2012 news item, and the announcement, title, content were exactly the same, essentially. 14 years have passed, but our concern is the same.” Anna Hakobyan says during the live broadcast on Facebook.

In other words, in the army created by Nikol Pashinyan, there is no improvement in terms of statutes compared to the army of the previous ones, or is this said in the sense that the morals in the society have remained the same? Maybe Hakobyan means both, one indirectly and seeing RA Defense Minister Suren Papikyan as a target, the other directly.

Anyway, Anna Hakobyan, talking about the roots of violence in the armed forces, took it to domestic violence, which, according to her, is protected by law. And in this context, he did not ignore the serious level of crimes among minors, when instead of solving problems in a civilized way, beatings and knives are chosen. And with more favorable “conditions” that culture is transferred to the Armed Forces.

Let us add that during one of the government meetings last year, Nikol Pashinyan, referring to the non-statutory cases recorded in the army and the deaths in non-combat conditions, noted. 

“Yeah well, one, two, three, four, ten, then whenever you study, you read, you read, you read, you read, you read, you order research, you ask, and you say, wait a minute, but none of these problems have arisen in the army. Not one.

All these problems come from civilian life in pieces. in one place, the pieces of the puzzle come together in one place, and the puzzle comes together. With very simple logic, very simple reasoning, and we do not understand this. We go, we say, let’s do this in the army, it’s too late to do it in the army, folks. We can’t do anything in the army either, we have to do it in the kindergarten, school, we have to do it in the university.”

After the reaction of RA Defense Minister Suren Papikyan, Pashinyan added that steps should be taken in the army as well, this does not mean that nothing should be done there.

And in this context, Pashinyan went on to give socio-psychological lessons that our children leave school without psychological preparation, enter life without psychological preparation, psychologically weak, with a weak will.

At that time, we wrote that the above-mentioned vicious phenomena not only enter the army, but also strengthen and spread in the army, society is not the only one to blame for this, especially if we take into account the situation in schools today, the prevalence of drugs among minors, and the fact that there is not a day without shootings. Who is responsible for this, according to Anna Hakobyan, isn’t the head of the country the first person responsible for not being able to put the situation in the country in order?

And did Anna Hakobyan observe the behavior, behavior and manner of speaking of Nikol Pashinyan, representatives of the government and their close or patronage with their opponents or journalists? Who was responsible for this? And Nikol Pashinyan’s speech does not contain violence?

The situation in the country, the atmosphere of impunity for those enjoying the patronage of the government is also important.

So when Anna Hakobyan distributed to public organizations from the announcement specially singles out and presents the parts where it is described that the violence in the army led by Nikol Pashinyan’s teammate, the humiliation of servicemen has a continuous nature and is manifested both by physical violence and by various manifestations of degrading treatment, intimidation, the above should be emphasized as well, not only domestic violence.

By the way, the same statement about psychological violence, can we say that today the citizens of RA are not under psychological pressure, when they know that any speech can become a criminal case, which does not threaten the provocateurs of the government?

As for the incidents in the army, they also have deep reasons related only to the army: lack of human resources, regular and scheduled sleep, issues related to combat duty, when today’s soldier is serving under the enemy’s nose and will have to swallow many things because we are going for a peace agenda, or who is the hero of today’s soldier, what is the task before him, and so on. There are many narrow professional questions that are a separate topic for discussion.

And Anna Hakobyan’s reaction to the latest incident recorded in the army is as ordinary as we can consider it, not random and containing footnotes, from the time chosen to the words and formulations.

By the way, the other day, one of the official bloggers also targeted RA Defense Minister Suren Papikyan.

In other words, there is no military parade anymore, the votes are secured at the expense of the army… moreover, on the day of the vote, no one saw any signs of humiliation of the soldiers, now suddenly the government circles began to notice what they did not notice, coincidence?… Post-election times, their own “attestation…”.

P.S. By the way, does Anna Hakobyan know that it has been several years since Nikol Pashinyan does not go to military bases and military units to congratulate soldiers and officers on the eve of the New Year?

This, however, is a rather serious indicator of the attitude towards the army.

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This government is against democracy and blatantly and brazenly commits a crime, that is, it abuses the power. Democracy in Armenia is under serious threat, and the morals, credit and attitude of this government contradict democracy. There is not a single political force from the opposition field that considers these elections as an election. And in the civilized world, it is accepted that you are considered justly elected if the opposition congratulates you. We must prevent Nikol’s “Lukashenization”. 168TVof « expressed such an opinion during the program AIM leader Paruyr Hayrikyan.

“Tomorrow, after all, there must be justice in this country, otherwise we will be destroyed. The future of no nation in the world is as closely related to the concept of justice as ours, because it is with justice that we can become a part of the civilized world. The power that made the change of power said that this Constitution is useless, but suddenly it is imposed on the Armenian people as a good Constitution. This government has not achieved any results except promises, threats or flattery to foreigners,” said the politician.

“It is necessary to have such a system that Mussolini or the ghost of Mussolini does not decide that he, your excellency, wants to do something. With one movement of a pen, with one command, Amiryan Street became Pope King Street, when there were people before you who named that street after King Vramshapuh. This changes the name of the street, it does not even put the issue under discussion. If you don’t discuss, the concept of democracy disappears, that is, people no longer have any leverage. Today, our main problem is that the owner of the country is not the citizen,” Hayrikyan said.

In the opinion of the leader of the National Military Academy, these authorities do not know that the state means the country of the citizens, and the citizen means the owner of the state. “They only have one idea: how can I make sure that the power stays with me, so that people who are not under my authority and do not obey me suddenly do not have the right to vote?”

You clumsy, illiterate, the owner of the country is the citizen, you are only one of those citizens, and when you try to impose your will, the fate of Ceausescu or Mussolini awaits you. The basis of their value system is the following: when doing something, what will the boss think, and when I do such and such a thing, what will please the boss? They demand this from their subordinates, because they consider themselves inferior to some forces, individuals, they are worried, what will Aliyev think?”

“It is a terrible situation, they have convinced the Armenian people that there will be a war. You pitiful ignoramuses, you deceivers, the war did not stop because of your complacency, the relative peace did not come because of it.

Nicole, it’s not your pitiful compliments that have changed anything for the better. How did you fulfill Aliyev’s demand regarding the dissolution of the Minsk Group? You used to say, prisoners, hold out for a few months. A prostituted, rascally, scumbag Armenian says that prisoners are not important and does not understand that he is preparing his children to become prisoners,” said Paruyr Hayrikyan.

Details in the video.

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“We will do everything to ensure that every young person in our country sees that the best conditions for self-realization are created for their development,” Minister of Education and Culture, Zhanna Andreasyan said during a meeting with young people the other day.

Perhaps Zhanna Andreasyan can make the self-realization of her and her husband, political commentator Petros Ghazaryan’s “development” an example for young people, because after the velvet realities, they “development” especially is visible. By the way, this is also confirmed in their declarations.

Zhanna Andreasyan’s statement

The minister of KGMS started and ended the year with 2 real estates, which he owns under the right of joint ownership. The apartments, which are located in Hrazdan city of Kotayk marz and Kanaker-Zeytun administrative district of the capital, were bought in 1994 and 2011. In this declaration, the minister also mentioned about the 2022 production Honda car he bought in 2022.

Zhanna Andreasyan mentioned a loan of 30 million drams in the table of loans given and returned in the declaration. his brother, Artak Andreasyan, was mentioned as debtor, and 4,770,665.6 drams. the debtor is Converse Bank CJSC. The latter was set to zero at the end of 2025.

Zhanna Andreasyan’s bank account balances doubled during the year, from 5,364,558.5 AMD at the beginning of the year to 10,602,424 AMD at the end of the year.

Minister for the accounting year: 25,598,679 drams the income was generated from the salary received from the Ministry of Education and Culture and or from other payments equal to it.

Let’s note that in 2023, Andreasyan received from KGSMN 19 million 722 667 drams salary and or other payments equivalent to it, and in 2024: 21 million 451,475 drams. The salary increase is visible.

Zhanna Andreasyan is represented in the following non-commercial organizations:

is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the “Educational Programs Center” Program Implementation Office

Armenian State Pedagogical University named after Khachatur Abovyan – chairman of the board

Closed joint-stock company “Sport Management Center” – chairman of the board

“Matenadaran” M. Research Institute of Ancient Manuscripts named after Mashtots – chairman of the board

Armenian Cinema Foundation – Chairman of the Board

Cultural Development Foundation – chairman of the board

National Center for Education Development and Innovation Foundation – Chairman of the Board

“Armenia Academy of Pedagogical and Psychological Sciences” – member

Petros Ghazaryan’s statement

In his declaration, Petros Ghazaryan mentioned two real estates that are jointly owned: an individual residential house in the Ajapnyak administrative district of Yerevan and an apartment in the Kanaker-Zeytun community. According to her declaration, she acquired both in 2022 (note: we are not talking about the apartment declared by Zhanna Andreasyan in Kanaker-Zeytun: it was acquired in 2011).

During 2025, Petros Ghazaryan alienated the residential house in Ajapnyak for 60,130,000 drams.

The political commentator, who often takes on the role of CP voiceover on the air of H1, received from H1 during the reporting year 2025 40 million 128,637 AMD income. the income received from other civil law contracts was 21,982,720 drams, and the income received from salary and/or other payments equal to it was 18,145,917 drams.

In 2023, he received from H1 32 million 935.732 AMD income. The salary received from the Public Television Company and/or other payments equal to it amounted to 17,941,132 AMD, and the income received from other civil law contracts amounted to 14,994,600 AMD.

In 2024, Petros Ghazaryan’s income was around 45 million AMD (44 million 904,158 AMD). This amount was formed from 16 million 675,993 drams of labor remuneration received from the Public Television Company and/or other payments equal to it, 28 million 044,080 drams of income from other civil law contracts received from the same television company, and 184,085 drams of income received from the “Nork” advertising agency.

At the end of the year, the political commentator canceled the loans he received from Ardshinbank and Byblos Bank Armenia CJSCs exceeding 40 million drams. According to the record of the declaration, he corrected the repayment of the loan during the year  42,341,584 drams.

The balance of Zhanna Andreasyan’s husband’s bank account increased from 120,000 drams at the beginning of the year to 1.6 million drams at the end of the year, and instead of 0 drams at the beginning of the year, cash funds amounted to 40 million drams at the end of the year.

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168 TV–in “Diplomat” is the guest of the program diplomat, political analyst Vardan Hakobyan.

– Mr. Hakobyan, Nikol Pashinyan is starting his next term of office with a perhaps unprecedented crisis in Armenian-Russian relations, when there are no official post-election congratulations, when, in fact, the political dialogue is disrupted, when economic restrictions are applied, the last of which we heard about yesterday, when “Россельхознадзор” announced the decision to block Armenian dairy products on the Russian market. How would you describe the situation? According to you, this time the Armenian authorities will manage to reach an agreement, a deal, or have the parties already crossed the point of irreversibility?

– It is not that today’s relations with Russia are unprecedented, but the “Civil Pact” came to power with those slogans, that is, they contributed to its coming to power in Armenia from 2018, before that they were developing anti-Russian theses. And when he came to power, the first step was taken from the very first day: a certain attitude change towards Russia, which was addressed, for example, with the issue related to the CSTO, the same issue related to Artsakh. In other words, this is not news. The choice regarding Russia was made before coming to power, and it can be said that this is exactly why they came to power.

And I always remind you of its confirmation: Bolton’s visit and his statement that it is necessary to change and leave historical patterns, etc. And people have been busy with that business since that day. Another thing that, let’s say, with some economic issues, because Armenia was very strictly, especially economically, also militarily-politically dependent, is connected with Russia (of course, aside from the military-political, the most important thing is the economic), and because of economic issues, this matter was delayed.

The Russian side understood very well who came to power, what problems they have, and where all this will go, but based on the situation that has been created for Russia, in particular, the already beginning contrast with the West, the already increasing danger, the coup in Ukraine after the Maidan in 2014, etc., Russia has found itself in a very serious situation, and for this reason, some compromise positions were reached in order to contain it somewhere. delays the processes, etc., although he saw very well that Russophobia, anti-Russianism is gaining momentum in Armenia and where it will lead.

Therefore, this is not new, this is the process for which they have come and are implementing it, and it must be said that they are implementing it consistently. And as for the red lines, I don’t think the red lines have been crossed yet. In diplomacy, if they talk about red lines, I don’t know, about that type of relations, etc., then it should be understood that the Republic of Armenia does not have the degree of sovereignty to have a certain position in those relations, to be decisive. In other words, he acts under a certain external influence based on the situation of the forces that are opposed to Russia.

– According to you, why did Russia take such a tough, intolerant position at this stage? After all, the situation on the Ukrainian front is quite complicated, it is active, the relations with the West are complicated again, the negotiations with the United States are again at a rather complicated stage, why now?

– We can say that it is complicated, but we can also say that there are some processes that are not like that. Although now they are spreading a lot in the West that the Ukrainians have become more active on the Ukrainian front, that they seem to be violating, etc., these are delusions. Russia follows and consistently follows its tactics.

They know very well what they are doing, and the same applies to relations with the United States, when they say the Anchorage arrangements are finished, etc., there are other things under there. And that war is needed by Europe, Western Europe or the European Union, let’s say, in a certain sense it is also needed by many other states: the United States, neighboring states, let’s say, Turkey, or, if you like, even China, etc., because Ukraine has been made a testing ground in many directions, both to test weapons, and some diplomatic ways, etc., and to achieve certain goals in a mediated way, that is, through the lives of Ukrainians, thanks to the victims.

Now, Russia took such a position because some things have changed, the issues on the Ukrainian front are very interesting, Russia is acting very confidently, and Russia, as a state-power with a large base, with experienced diplomats, understands very well what step it is taking, what it is going after, etc. And already, when he noticed in a certain sense that his positions are being strengthened, and not, as they say, weakening, he is already able to pay more attention to the South Caucasus.

Second, the South Caucasus, as a lost region connected to the Middle East, is of great vital importance for Russia, as well as for Iran and Turkey. In other words, little by little, the focus of opposition between the EU powers is moving from Ukraine and so on to the Middle East. In other words, it can be said that he was there for a long time, but he was in a relatively frozen state, and now here, when today’s authorities interfere in those processes in the South Caucasus, they become the same mediator as Ukraine in its anti-Russian process, and today they want to make Armenia a mediator and a platform for the fight against Russia.

Already this is starting to strengthen certain challenges, and it may deepen and be delayed, as they had to delay quite a bit in the case of Ukraine. When the whole West was accelerating the war, they were doing everything to make the Russians attack Ukraine, they were arming and building these defense zones, and if Russia didn’t start this special operation, Ukraine would start it.

It was in 2014 that the coup happened, the first thing they did was announced to the people of the 3rd and 4th varieties of Donbass, they made anti-Russian statements and started bombing Donetsk and Luhansk.

– You mentioned that the situation may flare up here too, but the Armenian authorities, in fact, are following the path of negotiations, maintaining a compromise position on all issues, and why should the situation flare up?

– The authorities of Armenia do not decide. Negotiations, etc., are all imitations, smokescreens. The decision of what kind of relations will be formed, whether there will be an outbreak or not, how and in what way, is decided by other states, major powers, let’s say the United States, the European Union, let’s say Turkey, it depends on them how it will go, whether these negotiations will proceed or not.

They are spreading that now our authorities will negotiate, they will talk with the Russians, they will settle, we will still get the gas at the same price, the market will be open for us, etc., but as soon as we solve these issues economically, we will find an alternative, we will immediately cut off gas. In other words, he makes a fool of the state with which he is in a relationship. It’s not possible, he can make you look like an idiot for a while, as long as you sit quietly, and then the issues will be solved at once. So, those negotiations are not important here.

Now see what they are distracting our society with. In other words, it is a typical European liberal-globalist method to manipulate public consciousness. Let’s say they are talking about “TRIPP”. As if work is being done, agreements are being made with America, they are coming and going, meetings are taking place, or they are talking about alternative gas through Azerbaijan, the Turkish market, the European market, etc. All this is not serious, because, I repeat, the names they give – of those states or state figures – that is one side. The second side, the Armenian, essentially has no subjectivity.

In other words, whatever they dictate and demand, he does, one way or another. They say: sign “TRIPP” – they sign, they say: let this road pass like this – they agree, etc. Here, in the broadest sense, there are no interstate relations as such. In other words, how are the states… If you equate your state interest with your national interest, you put them on the same plane as their demands, that is, as such, there is no state-national interest.

– You mention that the Armenian authorities, in fact, do not decide anything, they have no influence. According to you, what decision does the Russian Federation have regarding Armenia, regarding the South Caucasus, how will the developments proceed, what to expect?

– It seems to me that the red lines have not yet been crossed, and the Russian side hopes that it will still be able to settle the issue through diplomatic means, in a certain sense, through political pressure. I do not rule out that, for example, the development of the situation in the South Caucasus is being discussed specifically with Iran.

And since Armenia, as a matter of fact, does not conduct any independent foreign policy, it does not pose a problem, so for Armenia those solutions, that is, solutions in the interest of Russia and in the interest of Iran, that is, based on their interests, can be both unexpected and incomprehensible for us, and they just decide, they do, because it is of vital importance for both Iran and Russia.

Մանրամասները՝ 168TV-in: in the video.

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