Film Review | Thus Spoke the Wind — an Armenian drama that favours art over s

Boshkezenian Garik
OC Media
Mar 23 2026
by Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning

★★☆☆☆

Russian director Maria Rigel’s latest film is a disappointingly slow-moving look at Armenian society that is more incomprehensible than enlightening.

Moscow-native Maria Rigel (who has previously been known as Mariya Batova) arrived in Armenia in 2022, following her country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Having first landed in a rural village outside Yerevan, she was inspired ‘by the local culture, people, and nature’ to create a feature film, noting in a 2025 interview with Klassiki that ‘from my first days in Armenia, I had the strange feeling that I had known this place for a long time. The psychology of local people also feels familiar since it’s part of the post-Soviet space’.

Ostensibly inspired by the legendary Caucasian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov, as well as similarly famed Russian filmmaker Aleksandr Sokurov, Rigel attempts to create a distinguished drama examining gender roles and familial ties. Unfortunately, the film falls short of these aims, instead acting as an inscrutable example of art over substance.

Thus Spoke the Wind is segmented into three sections, each opening with a scene shot through the night-vision lens of a hunting rifle.

The first of these shots introduces Hayk (Albert Babajanyan), a quiet young boy who is bullied by his peers in an attempt to toughen him up into a real Armenian man. While perhaps not the happiest life, it seems he and his aunt Narine (Lusine Avanesyan), the manager of a local lavash factory, have carved out a space for themselves. Any sense of equilibrium is shaken, however, when Narine’s sister and Hayk’s real mother Anahit (Annika Abrahamyan) returns to the village

Arriving in the middle of the night with vibrant red hair, and having left her son years before, it is clear Anahit does not fit the stereotype of a traditional, good Armenian woman. Soon enough, the village begins to turn on her — the local boys, with Hayk in the backseat, chase Anahit down a country road; workers at the lavash factory, where Anahit now works, accuse her of stealing their belongings; a mother shame Narine for not stopping Anahit from having sexual relations with her son.

Things eventually reach a climax between the sisters, leading to an opaque ending hinting at violence and the secrets kept among family members. Yet no true conclusion ever comes.

Indeed, much of what happens throughout the film is not visible to the audience, an apparent call back to one of Hayk’s first lines: ‘They say it can be invisible. Things that can’t be seen by human eyes’. Arguments happen off-screen, with only the sounds of smashing glass or insulting words thrown back and forth hinting at the possibility of violence. Characters jump from one location to another, time passing in waves with no clarity whether scenes are hours or days apart, each scene structured as a lingering tracking shot of a specific character.

Though the film’s runtime is only 90 minutes, these film-making choices create the feeling of a much longer work, one that drains the viewer rather than invigorates them.

Indeed, the most memorable and exciting aspect of Thus Spoke the Wind is the score by American composer Steve Brand. The haunting composition, featuring traditional Armenian wind instruments, lingers in the mind long after the film’s conclusion.

While touching upon a number of  important aspects within Armenian society — from a woman’s right to her own sexuality and the effects of toxic masculinity — the film spends too much time avoiding any actual depth over surface-level examples, creating a piece muddled patchwork of a film that is more incomprehensible than enlightening.

Film details: Thus Spoke the Wind (2025), directed by Maria Rigel. The film is currently available to stream on Klassiki.

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Pashinyan calls Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian refugees ‘runaways’ in argument on m

Vanyan Gary
OC Media
Mar 23 2026
by Arshaluys Barseghyan

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has faced backlash after calling Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians ‘runaways’ during an argument with a refugee from the region on Sunday. After initially denying that he had used the insult, he later apologised the same evening.

The argument, which was caught on video and spread widely across social media, took place on the metro while Pashinyan was conducting his Civil Contract ‘inter-party campaign’ in Yerevan. While on the campaign trail, Pashinyan has traveled across Armenia to meet constituents. As part of his travels, Pashinyan has been gifting pins with the shape of Armenia’s internationally recognised borders. The ‘Real Armenia’ narrative — meaning that Armenians must accept modern Armenia within its current borders — has been a key part of Pashinyan’s political messaging.

The heated discussion lasted around five minutes and began after Pashinyan asked if he could give a pin to a boy with his mother, which they refused.

The woman, later identified as Armine Mosiyan, was a refugee from Nagorno-Karabakh. In her rejection of the gift, Mosiyan told Pashinyan that they have a ‘different map’.

Although Pashinyan initially appeared to accept the disagreement, after a few seconds he returned to the woman, pointing the pin again and telling her to take into account that her son ‘will live within this map’.

He also added they would not allow their ideology, appearing to refer to conceptualisations of Armenia beyond its internationally recognised borders. ‘You won’t allow us to live in our Artsakh? You have already not allowed [us to live there], but you can’t deprive us from our hope to live in our Artsakh, the return and the rest’, Mosiyan said.

The woman asked Pashinyan to stop arguing with her, explaining that they were on their way to a chess tournament, and otherwise would have left the car upon seeing Pashinyan enter. However, Pashinyan said that because he had listened to her arguments, she was obliged to listen to him.

‘We have done everything so that you would live in Artsakh, in [Nagorno-Karabakh]. In 2023, it was you who were accusing me that I had closed the borders so that people would not come from Karabakh to Armenia, and you were demanding that I open the borders and you were saying that I had deliberately closed them so that the people would not leave Karabakh. Now you come here and say, “Oh, but we wanted to return” ’, Pashinyan said.

In September 2023, after Azerbaijan’s final offensive against Nagorno-Karabakh and the subsequent surrender of the authorities in the region, Pashinyan controversially stated that the civilian population of Nagorno-Karabakh was ‘not under direct threat’, despite calls for the Armenian government to help facilitate evacuations to Armenia.

During the argument on Sunday, Pashinyan angrily told Mosiyan that Yerevan had spent ‘billions […] so that you would stay there, so why didn’t you stay there?’

After Mosiyan told him not to wag his finger at her and to lower his voice, Pashinyan responded: ‘Then, next time, do not try to say, you runaways, don’t try to say that I gave away Karabakh’.

Pashinyan’s remarks fueled public outcry online, in what many perceived as a continuation of his government’s rhetoric targeting Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians. Criticism became harsher after social media users learned that Mosiyan’s father, Meruzhan Mosiyan, had served as a field commander and been killed in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.

Pashinyan accused of hate speech towards Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians

As criticism spread on Facebook later that day, Pashinyan denied using the word ‘runaways’ during a press briefing.

‘No, I could not have said such a thing. If it was perceived that way, it was perceived incorrectly. If I said something the wrong way, I apologise’, Pashinyan said.

However, amid growing criticism online, he later apologised to Mosiyan and her son for ‘for [his] emotions’ that evening while summing up the day with members of his Civil Contract party.

He acknowledged that he had ‘said something not in the [right] way, I didn’t say it with the right gesticulation, I didn’t say it with the right tone, I didn’t say it with the right facial _expression_, somewhere I also did not treat the content correctly’.

In the same video, Pashinyan confessed that he was still unable to address issues regarding ‘the events of 2023 without emotions,’ assessing it as a ‘big flaw’.

The last bus out of Nagorno-Karabakh

He further expressed hope and readiness to meet with Mosiyan again and ‘speak calmly’, foreseeing that his offer would be rejected, and ‘then [Mosiyan]might say two harsh words afterward — I accept that humbly’.

In a separate Facebook post, he again invited Mosiyan to meet with him at the government building or another place of her choosing to personally offer his apology.

On Sunday, the Human Rights Defender’s Office issued a statement underscoring the ‘need to ensure sensitivity towards forcibly displaced persons and refugees’. The statement did not include any condemnation of Pashinyan’s actions.

For ease of reading, we choose not to use qualifiers such as ‘de facto’, ‘unrecognised’, or ‘partially recognised’ when discussing institutions or political positions within Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and South Ossetia. This does not imply a position on their status.


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‘Stigmatising refugees is unacceptable’: Pashinyan refers to Karabakh Armenian

Emil Lazarian
JAM News
Mar 23 2026
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The incident, which took place in the metro and involved Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and a Karabakh Armenian woman with a child, has sparked debate among experts and the wider Armenian public. The exchange escalated into a heated argument, during which Pashinyan said: “Do not dare, you fleeing people, to claim that I surrendered Karabakh.”

Shortly afterwards, Human Rights Defender Anahit Manasyan called on senior officials to show sensitivity towards refugees and respect their rights. However, her statement did not mention the prime minister or the specific incident.

Some political analysts said the prime minister was legitimising negative rhetoric towards refugees and stigmatising them for political purposes.

Following the incident, Pashinyan publicly apologised to the woman twice and offered to meet her again. However, discussions on social media continued even after his apology. Political commentator Hakob Badalyan described the proposal for a new meeting as a political tactic.

“If the woman accepts the offer to meet, the propaganda machine will naturally start working in Pashinyan’s favour. If she declines, it will give the propaganda apparatus a ‘legitimate pretext’ for a new wave of attacks, claiming that Pashinyan apologised while the woman acted rudely,” he said.

Full details of the incident, the prime minister’s apology, the ombudsman’s statement, and reactions.

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The argument began when Pashinyan offered to give the child a pin badge featuring a map of Armenia.

For several weeks, the prime minister and his team have been travelling to different regions at weekends, holding what they describe as an “intra-party campaign”. This Sunday, they took to the metro and spoke with residents of the capital.

In recent weeks, Pashinyan has been wearing a badge depicting the map of Armenia and handing out similar ones to passers-by. He offered one to the boy in the metro, but his mother replied:

“We are from Artsakh. We have a different map,” she said, referring to a version that includes the unrecognised Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

The prime minister insisted: “Your son will live within the borders shown on this map.”

The woman objected: “You cannot forbid us from hoping to return to Artsakh.”

Pashinyan then raised his voice and responded:

“We spent billions earned by the citizens of Armenia so that you could remain there. Why did you not stay? […]

Do not speak so dismissively about this map. Next time, you fleeing people, do not dare to claim that I surrendered Karabakh.”

Pashinyan admitted he had ‘said something wrong’

The same day, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan issued an apology — twice.

“I admit that I said something wrong. I spoke in the wrong tone, and my facial _expression_ was inappropriate. In some sense, I also expressed the wrong message. But this remains one of the most emotional issues for me. I apologise to everyone,” he said.

Later, Pashinyan commented on the incident in a post on his Facebook page, inviting Armine Mosiyan and her son to the government building. He said he was ready to apologise to her publicly, live on air.

“If visiting the government is not acceptable for her, I am ready to do the same in the metro at a time convenient for her — again live. I am also ready to meet at her place of residence or work.”

Ombudsman’s statement

“Communication with forcibly displaced persons and refugees, as well as discussions concerning their rights, must be conducted with due sensitivity, taking into account the vulnerability of this group,” the Human Rights Defender said.

Anahit Manasyan added that this is required by international legal standards. She called on “public officials, as well as all political and public figures” to demonstrate sensitivity towards displaced persons and refugees and issues related to their rights.

“It is necessary to ensure that public discourse does not trigger or exacerbate their vulnerability, but instead contributes to fostering and strengthening an atmosphere of solidarity, inclusiveness and mutual respect.”

Commentaries

Nikol Pashinyan was criticised not only for stigmatising Karabakh refugees. Public reaction was also triggered by the fact that he raised his voice at a mother in the presence of a minor. Political analysts also began discussing the possible impact of the incident on the outcome of the parliamentary elections scheduled for June.

Below are some of the views most widely discussed on social media.

Political analyst Tigran Grigoryan said:

“I believe that analysing such behaviour requires the involvement of an interdisciplinary group of professionals. For our part, we can note the following:

  • As expected, the number of attacks on refugees at the highest level will sharply increase during the pre-election period.
  • Such behaviour will significantly intensify hate rhetoric against refugees at the everyday level.

If the country’s prime minister legitimises and uses the most offensive language towards refugees for political purposes, why would his supporters not repeat it?”»

Human rights defender Zarui Hovhannisyan pointed to another aspect:

“When a woman’s voice is effectively drowned out by a man’s voice, aggressive gestures and accusations, this constitutes psychological pressure. When it comes from a public official who sets an example for thousands of people, it becomes an even more dangerous precedent. It is doubly unacceptable when a mother is shouted at in the presence of her child.

The child, who was simply sitting next to his mother, became a witness to aggressive behaviour by a representative of the authorities. This goes beyond a political or personal dispute and enters the sphere of children’s rights.

A safe environment for a child implies not only physical but also psychological protection. When a mother is shouted at in his presence, creating a tense and frightening situation, it violates the child’s fundamental right to protection from violence and degrading treatment.

As someone working in the field of women’s rights, I assess such behaviour as a case containing elements of gender-based psychological violence. At the same time, the presence of a child requires an assessment from the perspective of child protection.

Holding public office does not grant the right to shout, accuse or humiliate — especially those who have already suffered the severe consequences of war and forced displacement.”

Political analyst Robert Gevondyan said:

“The likelihood of the ruling party securing a constitutional majority (two-thirds) in the elections is крайне low. The most probable scenario is a victory for Civil Contract and the formation of a government, but with a narrow margin.

In essence, Pashinyan is signalling that the party will achieve a constitutional majority in an attempt to influence the political atmosphere and offset situations that have generated public backlash and negatively affected ratings. These primarily include the dismissal of the director of the Genocide Museum and the incident in the metro. In both cases, the problems could have been avoided if Pashinyan had restrained his emotions and resisted the urge to comment and engage in confrontation.

There is also worse news — there are still two and a half months until the elections. Both orchestrated provocations and similar spontaneous incidents are likely to increase, and there will be little opportunity to prevent them.

Therefore, if Pashinyan fails to control his emotions and remain silent in certain situations, he may not only fall short of securing a constitutional majority, but could even create an opening for Armenia to turn into a Russian “colony” under the Karapetyan–Kocharyan tandem,” he said, referring to Russian businessman Samvel Karapetyan and former president Robert Kocharyan.

“I think that, for the sake of the Republic of Armenia, it is sometimes better to remain silent.”

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168: Azerbaijani gasoline instead of Artsakh. How are Turkey and Azerbaijan?

Frangulian Shushan

March: 22, 2026

Import of 3.6 million dollars from Azerbaijan and export of 0 drams. January “records”

For years, despite the lack of diplomatic relations and closed borders, Armenia has conducted a large volume of trade with Turkey in a mediated way. But that trade was exclusively one-sided.

A large amount of Turkish goods were imported and sold in Armenia. Instead, there were almost no exports from Armenia to Turkey. Their volumes, compared to imports of Turkish goods, were insignificant. Barely a few hundred thousand or a few million dollars a year. However, Turkish imports amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars.

Turkey’s economy has benefited from it. Through the imports of Turkish goods, Armenia made an indirect investment of several hundreds of millions of dollars in the Turkish economy every year. In return, he received cheap products, which often created problems for domestic manufacturers. Not being able to withstand the competition, they were pushed out. Despite this circumstance, the authorities did nothing to protect the local producer, to increase the competitive opportunities.

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Even today, under the closed border conditions, a large amount of imports from Turkey are carried out to Armenia. Although they have been talking about opening the border for a long time, the border remains closed. Sometimes it opens and closes again on different occasions.

They are waiting when the current rulers of Armenia will fully satisfy all the demands of Azerbaijan in order to open the Armenian-Turkish border. However, it is still a big question, is it more beneficial for Armenia to be closed or to be opened?

Turkey does not feel bad in the Armenian market even under the conditions of closed border.

Last year, more than 368 million dollars worth of goods were imported from that country, 32 million more than the previous year. In the conditions of a sharp decline in the general trade of Armenia, imports from Turkey have increased by almost 10 percent.

The flow of Turkish goods to Armenia is maintained this year as well. In January, 25.5 million dollars were imported. Last year there were only 16.7 million. An increase of more than 52 percent was registered.

And as always, unofficial trade relations with Turkey have been one-sided. Compared to 25.5 million imports, exports are zero. Despite the “fraternal” aspirations of today’s rulers of Armenia with the Turks, Armenian products continued to have no place in the Turkish market.

Last year, barely 473 thousand dollars were exported to Turkey, only 60 thousand dollars more than 1 year ago.

Can you imagine what kind of “serious” progress has been made in the case of exports of Armenian products from Armenia to Turkey?

After solving the issues of unilateral trade with Turkey “fundamentally”, they have now moved on to the implementation of trade with Azerbaijan. And again in a unilateral mode. There have been cases all over the world that Azerbaijani goods are imported from Azerbaijan to Armenia.

For dozens of years, the Armenian-Azerbaijani trade index has been zero in official statistics. Of course, episodic cases were recorded in individual years, but they both appeared and quickly disappeared from the official statistics.

At the price of handing over Artsakh, deporting the people of Artsakh, depriving them of their homes, they finally achieved their long-time dream: they trade with Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijani oil products have been imported to Armenia since the end of last year.

The first batch arrived in December. What’s more, after that the prices of gasoline decreased a little, they raised such enthusiasm as if they had brought back Artsakh. The cheapening of gasoline was linked to the import of petroleum products worth several hundred thousand Azerbaijani dollars. Later, of course, it turned out that they also faked it, the decrease in prices was the result of changes in the international markets, not the import of Azerbaijani gasoline.

According to official statistics, trade with Azerbaijan in December last year amounted to 873.4 thousand dollars. That was the whole year’s trade, exclusively in one direction. Azerbaijani oil products were brought.

In January of this year, trade of around 2.7 million dollars was carried out and again in the form of import of oil products.

After January, more Azerbaijani oil products were imported to Armenia, but these data are still not included in the official statistical indicators.

In December of last year and January of this year, within 2 months, imports from Azerbaijan to Armenia amounted to almost 3.6 million dollars. Instead, zero drams were exported from Armenia.

Such trade relations were established between Armenia and Azerbaijan through the efforts of CP members. When they ask why Armenian products are not exported to Azerbaijan, they tell fairy tales, they talk about exchanges of product lists, but the result is zero.

There are no Armenian products in both the Turkish and Azerbaijani markets, instead, along with the expansion of the presence of Turkish products, Azerbaijan is now also conveniently located in the Armenian market, which is greatly supported by the rulers of Armenia. They are trying to create the illusion of establishing mutual trade relations with unilateral trade.

What will be the end of this will be seen later.

HAKOB KOCHARYAN




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Today, all the prisoners fighting for the New Transformation of our country, the freedom of our people

Albert Nalbandian

March: 22, 2026

Today is the holiday of Saint Gregory the Illuminator’s terrible sufferings and imprisonment in Khor Virap.

At first glance, the concept of “horrible suffering and imprisonment” may sound strange to today’s man.

First, these sufferings and imprisonment are meant for a clear purpose and are for the sake of truth and justice. That is why St. Grigor Narekatsi rejoices. “Give me the strength of joy in my distress” (Make the day of my distress a feast of joy).

And secondly, it served the freedom and emancipation of an entire people, just as the Victory of the Resurrection was preceded by the Council of the Cross, in which “with the most artistic wisdom you turn the shadow of death into a garden with your most artistic wisdom” (St. Grigor Narekatsi).

It became the beginning of the Great Conversion of Armenians, the journey to God and reconciliation with him.

Here is the meaning and essence of celebrating the “terrible sufferings and imprisonment in Khor Virap”.

The path to freedom and liberation has a price and without paying it, without hardship, suffering, sacrifice, firm conviction, will, faith, hope and finally the sacrificial love of love, it will not be freely given.

THE BEGINNING AND END OF THIS WAY IS LOVE. IT BEGINS WITH LOVE AND IS SUMMED UP IN LOVE BECOMING LOVE’S CROWN MARRIAGE WITH SUFFERING, WHOSE FRUIT IS LIBERATION;

Yes, today is the FESTIVAL of truth and justice, the liberation of our country, the New Transformation, of all those arrested, persecuted, abused, imprisoned and those who pass through the “shadow of death” fighting for the freedom of our people, especially those who have the unwavering and unquestionable conviction that the result of being in this darkness will be the GARDEN OPENING, who themselves carry the GARDEN OPENING.

Happy holiday everyone…

May the advice and grace of the Holy Enlightener Patriarch’s terrible sufferings and the Feast of the Deep Entry lead us to the Light of our lives and the Victory of Light, because
Victory has no alternative…

 

Prisoner of the Fatherland
Prince Bagrat Galstanyan

21.03.2026

On the feast of our Saint Gregory the Illuminator
the terrible suffering and going into the hospital

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Reverend Michael is again at the Church of the Seven Wounds

Karapet Navasardian

March: 22, 2026

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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The public atmosphere of this spring will determine Armenia’s perspective. Vahe Hovhannisy

Emil Lazarian

March: 22, 2026

The public atmosphere of this spring will determine Armenia’s perspective. Vahe Hovhannisyan, a member of the “Alternative projects” group, wrote about this.

“If the investigator can ban the departure of the Catholicos of All Armenians from Armenia and his visit to Georgia, and the Armenian society is not upset by it, then something very important is wrong with us. We all understand that the decision-maker is not the investigator, but that is not the point. If the opposition political forces conducting an election campaign do not see in the ugliness of Vehapar a united revolt, a pressing problem of sending a united message to the people, a demand for a united reaction, then what is the value of that election campaign? If the intellectual circles of the country do not revolt, then what is it about? If the atmosphere in the country is like this 2.5 months before the elections, what kind of perception and impact should our best, competently prepared programs have? The government creates a new ugly reality every day, and the opposing political systems are always one day behind.

With such logic, we will realize what is happening after the known date. In such conditions, the society will understand what they are warning about today only in the fall. In the spring-summer phase of 2020, there were at most 15-20 people in public life who warned about the inevitable war. Everyone already knows what happened that fall, but they didn’t learn a lesson. No consequences. Now there is an acute problem: to change today’s indifferent atmosphere. The public atmosphere of April-May will determine the long-term perspective of Armenia.

Developing and presenting programs is very important, but what is crucial is the public atmosphere in which these programs are presented. And today’s atmosphere in Armenia depicts an unclear, uncertain perspective for Armenia. Let’s change the atmosphere, involve new layers in this work, get out of team or personal egocentrism, and the atmosphere will change, bringing with it success,” he wrote.

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Specially for makeup artists. The Gerald Ford aircraft carrier limps back to the US.

Emil Karabekian

March: 22, 2026

Political scientist Arman Grigoryan, a professor at Lehigh University in the USA, wrote: “If the front page of the New York Times, the mouthpiece of the American and American Jewish establishment, looks like this today (see below), one can only imagine how much more deplorable the situation is in reality. I draw the attention of a couple of fartsovshchik to this, who recently made some judgments about the value of my diplomas, because I predicted on the second day of the war that this war would not end with the desired result of its initiators, and because they heard other things on television.

Let me share a couple of interesting pieces of information about the progress of the war to the Farzovshchiks and others, so that we are not limited to the headlines on the front page of the New York Times.

1. US Secretary of Defense (sorry, war) Pete Hegsett, who could actually be trusted with a job as a personal trainer at Maximum Gold’s Gym, sent a request to Congress a couple of days ago for $200 billion in additional funding because Iran turns out not to be Venezuela. It is equivalent to increasing the American military budget by 20 percent.

2. The Gerald Ford aircraft carrier limps back to the US because a fire broke out in the aircraft carrier’s laundry room. Can you imagine, the fire that broke out in the laundry could not be extinguished for about 30 hours and the fire caused such destruction that the aircraft carrier became non-combatable. Let’s add that if the Americans claim that it was not the result of an Iranian missile attack, but a fire in the laundry room, we have no reason to doubt the information given by the Americans, because the Americans never lie.

3. Iran’s non-existent air defenses shot down an F-35. The plane did not crash, but managed to make an emergency landing, but that is secondary. It is important that $450 billion was spent on the creation of this fighter model and it should be absolutely invisible and invulnerable. It turns out that he is not invisible and invulnerable. Experts inform that this event caused a very serious commotion in the American military establishment. Meanwhile, the plane was hit by an Iranian missile.

4. There is currently no way to open the Strait of Hormuz. Allies sent one after another to Trump when he asked them to send their fleets to open the strait.

5. There are reliable reports that despite the claims that Iran is on the verge of destroying its entire military potential, including its missile arsenal, Iran’s leaders do not want to hear about a truce, and are increasingly tightening the demands that must be met if the Americans and Israel want a truce.

6. Trump’s threat issued a while ago that if Iran does not open the Strait of Hormuz, they will attack Iran’s power plants and energy system also speaks of the hopelessness of the American situation. In other words, as I wrote a few days ago, Americans will be faced with the choice of either packing up their tents or turning to barbarism. Iran’s leaders responded that if something like this happens, they will attack the Persian Gulf oil wells and water desalination systems. The threat is entirely credible, so Trump’s attack on Iran’s energy system would be simply insane. Its insanity is clear to everyone, and it is this that shows how limited Trump’s choice is and in what mire that fool has found himself together with his master, Netanyahu.

7. Another expression of desperation is the talk of deploying some 2,500 or 5,000-strong contingent of marines with the task of opening the strait. They didn’t believe that we said that nothing would happen with the air force. But the problem is also that this contingent will not make a difference if they are sent.

8. A couple of pieces of information from the genre of unintentional humor. Pete Hegsett, a knight of the laws of logic, revealer of hard-to-reach truths and a great strategist of our time, announced that day that the only obstacle to the opening of the Strait of Hormuz is Iran (!!!) and that if Iran opens the strait, there will be no more problems. Callas was not enough for us, now we have to start following the flashes of this idiot’s mind on a daily basis so that we don’t suddenly miss something. The other one is even better. Another member of Trump’s cabinet informed that they removed the ban on selling oil to Iran, because in this case the price of oil will fall in the international market, which will harm Iran!! I simply rule out the existence of such idiots in the governments of North Korea or Turkmenistan.

9. While we are talking about the price of oil and sanctions, the sanctions were also lifted from the Russians and the Russians are now making $170 million extra money on oil per day.

There’s a lot more to write, but it’s getting too long. To be continued next.”

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How did Azerbaijani agents operate freely in Yerevan in 1919?

Talar Tumanian

March: 22, 2026

1919 was an important and at the same time difficult period in the history of the Republic of Armenia. The country had just declared independence, but it was facing both external political challenges and serious internal socio-economic problems. Under these conditions, the authorities of the republic tried to gain international support, strengthen the state structures and protect the territorial integrity of the country.

At the same time, the situation inside Armenia continued to be extremely difficult. The internal situation of the country became more complicated due to wars, a large flow of emigrants, famine and difficult economic conditions. The press of the time, the memoirs of intellectuals document that especially in Yerevan, it was a chaotic situation, there were orphans, emigrants everywhere, on the other hand, various epidemics were reaping abundantly in the republic and especially in Yerevan.

In that difficult situation, the press of the time also criticized the country’s leadership and accused them of omissions in a number of areas.

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In 1919, the famous Armenian writer Axel Bakunts lived in Yerevan and was a correspondent for a number of newspapers of that region. Bakunts stayed in Yerevan and worked in newspapers until September 1919. His activities coincided with the difficult period of 1919. In Bakunt’s correspondence, we also find articles about the situation in Yerevan. In one of his articles, Bakunts presents that Georgian and Azerbaijani agents roamed freely in Yerevan at that time. Below is the full article.

«THE GUESTS

Yerevan is full of suspicious guests. All the suspicious elements exiled from Georgia arrive here, along with them the agents of Georgia and Azerbaijan also come to us and roam the streets of the capital freely.

To this day, no one has been deported from our territory, although their conspiratorial activities are obvious. All the khans and begs, who organized the massacre and deportation of the Armenian people last year, remain calm and live.

There is no doubt that the latest attempts of the Tatar uprising are led by such people from Yerevan.

And the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not resort to any means to neutralize the heart of the rebellion.

How to explain this criminal indifference? With weakness or with the patience of republican orders?

A new state, surrounded by enemies and ravaged by internal rebellion, cannot tolerate agents from a foreign power within its borders.

Moreover, all those elements who are hostile to our cause and demands shall leave this country and go to another place which is dear to them. Is it permissible that a certain “socialist” K., who tries to prove in long articles that the Armenian Karabakh is an inseparable part of Azerbaijan, or another “internationalist”-socialist A. and a member of the Armenian parliament, who declares that Georgians have the right and should rule Lori (for the sake of Armenian Menshevik specific internationalism), is it possible that such types, agents of Denikin and Ramishvili, who are different from Tajik agents, can “act” freely and even take office in our so hated country? B. July 31.” (“Nork”, 1989, N 5).

The events of 1919 show how difficult the state was. Axel Bakuntsi’s publications are also important testimonies of that period. This article reflects the concern that was widespread in society. with the country’s security, internal instability and external influences.

Similar articles give a chance to better imagine not only the political events, but also the concerns of the society of that region, the anxieties of the people and the dangers facing the newly created state.

Z. Sh:i was late




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A WOMAN FROM TARSAKHTS SLAMMED PASHINIAN IN THE METRO. HE CAME OUT OF HUN AND ATTACKED

Emil Lazarian

March: 22, 2026

Your son will live in this map, take that into account. Nikol Pashinyan said this while arguing with a woman from Artsakh in the subway, showing the RA map brooch.

In response, Pashinyan’s wife from Artsakh said, “You will not let us live in our Artsakh?” You cannot deprive us of our hope to live in Artsakh”

“We have done everything for you to live in Artsakh, Karabakh.

In 2023, it was you who accused me of closing the borders so that the people would not come to Armenia. And you demanded me to open the borders and said that it was specially closed so that the people from Karabakh would not come, now you have come here, you say, wow, we want to return. We spent the billions earned by the citizens of Armenia so that you could stay there, why didn’t you stay? Next time, don’t try to say that I gave away Karabakh with the fugitives,” Pashinyan said.

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