A war took place, as a result of which we were defeated. It has been so with many states and nations. But who took the theses of the enemy and applied them, who edited his own history in a way that suited the enemy?

And it’s not like we ask ourselves questions, we try to face the reality as they try to present it. If you look at what anti-Armenian theses were propagated in Azerbaijan before the 44-day war, you will understand that these are not the issues we raised, it’s just that today the RA authorities, with their propagandists, are trying to instill those Azerbaijani theses into our compatriots.

When you see Pashinyan being applauded after his speech in the European Parliament, don’t forget that many people applauded in Strasbourg, but nothing was ever decided by that.

The people applauding think that the leader of a country trying to transform his nation is giving a speech. They do not know that this person leaves his nation defenseless before the enemy.

They applauded a man who had gone to protest against his own nation.

In general, when the leader of a state is widely and unanimously praised by the leaders and parliaments of other countries, it often means that the leader is not acting in the interests of his country, but in the interests of the states from which the words of praise are spoken.

I don’t want them to applaud us. I want us not to lose our national pride.

Edmon Marukyan, head of the “Lusavore Armenia” party

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As of now, 34,576 people who were forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh have received RA citizenship, there are zero cases of rejection. RA Minister of Internal Affairs Arpine Sargsyan said this during the regular session of the RA NA Standing Committee on Defense and Security Issues.

“The number of minors displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh is 28,000, 12,000 of them acquired RA citizenship through passporting,” said the minister.

As for the number of applications for RA citizenship in general, according to Sargsyan, if in 2025 In the 1st semester, the Ministry of Internal Affairs received about 4,000 applications for RA citizenship, then in 2026 according to the data of the first two and a half months, this number reached 5,000.

To remind, according to the data of the migration and citizenship service of the RA Ministry of Internal Affairs, after September 2023, 115,365 people were forcibly displaced from Artsakh.

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Pashinyan again resorted to his already predictable practices, making the threat of war not a matter of responsibility, but a crude political tool.

This time he went further, actually warning, or rather, blackmailing the Armenian people, that if he loses the upcoming elections, war will be inevitable.

One could think that after the wars, years of failures, losses and disappointment under Pashinyan, such statements would at least be presented with some seriousness or restraint. Instead, they sound increasingly desperate, almost mechanical, as if repeating the same thought can restore long-lost confidence.

Ironically, the more he tries to advance this narrative, the more it works against him. There is no need to remind the Armenian society about the war. they experienced it, suffered its pain, paid the price for it. And every time he brings up the subject, it doesn’t instill fear of an uncertain future. it brings back very specific memories from his years in power. Wars during his time were not hypothetical, they were real, devastating and with severe consequences. So when he talks about war, people can’t imagine what it would be like without him. they remember what happened during his reign.

It is therefore not surprising that this argument sounds increasingly hollow. A leader who has failed in the fields of foreign policy and security is now trying to present himself as the only guarantor of peace. This might seem ironic if it were not so serious. The facts speak for themselves. Opportunities were missed, warnings were ignored, and proposals, such as the 2019 version of the Minsk Group, were not only rejected, but also hidden from the public.

But perhaps the most troubling aspect of this rhetoric is not its cynicism, but its sheer absurdity. Pashinyan speaks as if he has a unique ability to predict the time of war, as if geopolitical realities are adapted to the election results. However, the reality shows something else. On September 21, 2020, just six days before the start of the 44-day war, he presented his vision “Armenia 2050” in the hall of Matenadaran, full of great ambitions and unrealistic optimism. Not a word, not a hint, not a sign that the country is on the brink of one of the most destructive wars in modern history.

So the question remains. if he could not predict the war that would start in a few days, then on what basis is he now trying to predict a war in the fall?

These constant reminders of the war speak more not about the dangers facing Armenia, but about the incompetence and failures of the person making these statements. They reflect not strategic perception but political insanity, not leadership but improvisation. And perhaps most tellingly, this approach underestimates the very people it is trying to influence, assuming that they will forget or ignore what they have already experienced. This is perhaps the clearest proof of how far he is cut off from reality.

Former RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan

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RA Minister of TCE Davit Khudatyan received the delegation headed by Veronika García del Arco, Director of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia of Reconstruction Credit Bank (KfW). They are aware of this from TKEN.

Katrin Buter-Peltz, Head of Development Cooperation of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Republic of Armenia, was also part of the delegation.

During the meeting, the course of jointly implemented projects in the energy and water sectors, as well as possible new directions of further cooperation, were discussed.

The minister noted that there is significant progress in the implementation process of the “Caucasian Power Transmission Network” project and emphasized the importance of this project for Armenia.

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Iran has imposed a toll on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, setting up a “safe corridor” for approved carriers. One of the operators paid about 2 million dollars for the transit of his tanker. Lloyd’s List wrote about this, referring to the source:

At least nine ships have already passed through the strait under this scheme. However, it is not known how many of them have paid. In some cases, according to some reports, diplomatic intervention was the only solution. Additionally, the payment mechanism itself remains uncertain amid sanctions against Iran.

According to some reports, the route of the “safe corridor” passes through Iran’s territorial waters near Larak Island, where the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and port authorities carry out visual identification of ships. Access to the corridor is allowed only after coordination with Tehran.

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The Catholicos of All Armenians received an official notification from the Patriarchate of the Georgian Orthodox Church regarding the funeral of the blessed Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II and related events. This was reported by the information system of the Mother See.

“His Holiness intends to visit Georgia, attend the funeral ceremony, pay his respects to the late blessed Patriarch and convey his grief to the Georgian Orthodox Church and the friendly Georgian people.

As for the exit ban, the attorneys of the Mother See are taking steps in that direction,” the Mother See explained.

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Artur Khachatryan, deputy of the “Hayastan” faction, writes:

“The Evil Genius of Blackmail…. From the threat “Either I will be the prime minister or Armenia will not have a prime minister” to “Either I will be the prime minister or Armenia will not exist”…

Pashinyan openly declares that if he is in trouble, he will seek Aliyev’s help. Internal and external enemies work closely together.

In order to defeat the external enemy, one must first defeat the internal enemy…”

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The amended version of the RA Constitution has appeared in the hands of “Ishkhanutyun” news agency. In the text, the lines in red are the ones that were added, and the deleted lines are the lines that were removed from the Constitution.

The site writes: “The changes made in the RA Constitution put the fundamental values ​​of the people under attack: history, the institution of the family, the connection with the diaspora and the priority of being Armenian in Armenia. But the funniest thing is that the amended Constitution, undermining the state’s value system, is presented with a beautiful packaging of “European values”.

Thus, “historical memory is erased” in the preamble of the Constitution. There is no mention of the Declaration of Independence, while the existing Constitution is based on the Declaration of Independence. The declaration read: “The Armenian people, taking as a basis the fundamental principles of Armenian statehood and national goals established in the Declaration of Independence of Armenia, the sacred message of their freedom-loving ancestors who implemented the restoration of a sovereign state… accept the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia.”

This reference was removed from the text of the new Constitution and replaced by the following lines: “The people of the Republic of Armenia, guided by the goals of preserving the independence, sovereignty and continuity of the Republic of Armenia, protecting human rights and freedoms, strengthening the democratic and legal state, ensuring the safety of the people and promoting the general well-being, as well as the commitment to inherit a peaceful, safe and prosperous homeland for future generations, adopt the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia.”

It was Aliyev’s demand to tear the Declaration of Independence from the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia, because it mentioned Artsakh and talked about the restoration of the historical homeland and lands.

Clause 2 of Article 35 has been deleted in the new Constitution, where it was stated that a woman and a man have equal rights when getting married, during marriage, and when divorcing. The amendment of this article implies that the model of the traditional Armenian family is changing, and that the same-sex union can also be considered a family.

Article 36, which defines the rights and responsibilities of parents, has been changed so that children no longer have an obligation to care for their elderly parents. Clause 3 of this article defined: “Adult working persons are obliged to take care of their disabled and needy parents. The details are defined by law.” This has been completely removed.

According to the new Constitution, a person of Armenian nationality can no longer become a citizen of the Republic of Armenia in a simplified manner. Clauses 2, 3 and 4 of Article 47 defining the right to citizenship of the Republic of Armenia have been completely deleted. This means that our Diaspora Armenians can no longer become RA citizens in a simplified manner.

Article 113 was completely deleted from the Constitution, which gave the members of the National Assembly the right to address the members of the Government, including the Prime Minister, with written questions, in other words, to demand transparency and accountability. With the new Constitution, parliamentary control is weakened, and the political system seems to be becoming a monarchy. The goal is simple: so that the opposition cannot influence the government and the prime minister has complete freedom.

One of the most important articles of the RA Constitution, Article 205, has been changed in such a way that the Armenian people will no longer be able to control the fate of their country. The Constitution written by the CP government allows the government and the National Assembly to decide the country’s membership in international organizations without a referendum.

The transitional provision of the new Constitution allows that if Armenia joined any international organization before 2015, the issue of suspending or canceling the membership of that organization can be resolved only through the National Assembly, without a referendum.

This circumstance creates a particularly serious problem in the case of EAEU membership, as Armenia had already joined that organization in 2015, according to the previous Constitution.

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The Ministry of Justice denies that the draft published earlier in the media is the final text they developed. At the same time, they neither deny nor confirm that the reference to the Declaration of Independence was removed from their prepared text.

“That is not the text we should publish. We will publish a new text, not amendments to the Constitution,” the press secretary of the Minister of Justice insisted in a conversation with “Azatutyan”.

“Ishkhanutyun” news agency claimed today that “the amended version of the RA Constitution appeared in its hands.” In the preface of the text published by this news outlet, there is no reference to the Declaration of Independence containing the wording on the unification of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.

Mariam Melkumyan did not answer the question whether the reference to the Declaration of Independence was removed in the project developed by the ministry. He said that they will make an additional clarification during the day.

Azerbaijan demands to remove the Declaration of Independence from the Constitution, claiming that only after that it will sign the peace agreement with Armenia.

Nikol Pashinyan personally described the declaration as a source of conflict, expressed his opinion that the Declaration of Independence should not be mentioned in the draft of the new Constitution, but the Ministry of Justice, which is developing the text, still keeps the main intrigue: will they remove or keep the reference?

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We are still waiting for the decision of the investigator regarding the permission to appear in a video message to Samvel Karapetyan, for which we applied in January, February, March, this time it seems we are getting the permission. Lawyer Aram Vardevanyan announced this on his Facebook page.

“In any case, let’s see. But an important record. during this entire period, it was admitted and proven that the next lies and manipulations were being spread, because the probation service could not give such a permission and did not give it, but the investigative service just gave it.

That’s what the investigator’s statement was about,” he said.

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