A few hours ago, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declassified the 2026 plan of the US intelligence community. Annual Threat Assessment Report. Armenia has a special place there.

We have posted the full translation of that section below.

“The Peace Summit held between Armenia and Azerbaijan under the auspices of the USA on August 8 created an opportunity for the two countries to establish lasting peace and contributed to the growth of regional stability. Among the outcomes of the peace summit was a preliminary agreement on the terms of a peace treaty and plans to create the US-led Trump Path for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP), which would link Azerbaijan with its Nakhichevan exclave through southern Armenia, opening up trade flows for both states and the entire region.

• These developments create a significant change in the direction of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations. In 2020 and 2023, Azerbaijan militarily regained control over its Nagorno-Karabakh region, which until then was under the control of the ethnic Armenian population supported by Yerevan.

• Since August 8, both sides appear willing to maintain the positive momentum gained from the Peace Summit. Ceasefire violations on the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan have drastically decreased and are now almost non-existent. In October 2025, the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, announced that Azerbaijan had removed restrictions on cargo transportation through the territory of Azerbaijan to Armenia, and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan reciprocated the move within days. Since then, Azerbaijan has supplied gasoline to Armenia and allowed transit transportation of wheat.

• There are still obstacles on the way to the final conclusion of the peace agreement. For example, President Aliyev continues to insist that Armenia should amend its Constitution to remove the reference to what he describes as the wording that Nagorno Karabakh is part of Armenia. That step will require holding a constitutional referendum in Armenia, the result of which is not guaranteed.”

Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, advisor to the director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Ruben Safrastyan

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“Hraparak” newspaper writes:

Nikol Pashinyan started fighting against Mount Ararat as a symbol many years ago and promoted the cult of Aragats as an alternative. Now he forbids pronouncing the word “Artsakh” and talking about the genocide. He qualifies all of that as a call for war and a threat, and he slowly implements this policy in the country. At first, the image of Mount Masis was removed from the entry stamps to Armenia, and yesterday our source told us that the official logo of the National Polytechnic University of Armenia, on which the mountains Masis and Sis are depicted, was also ordered to be replaced with another logo, where there will be another image instead of Mount Ararat.

According to our source, they started working on changing the logo in January of this year. They were told that it should be changed before the end of the academic year. We tried to get a comment from the polytechnic, but neither the rector of the university, Gor Vardanyan, nor his spokesperson answered our phone calls.

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On March 12, an extraordinary incident took place in Yerevan. Around 10:15, the Nor Nork Division of the Community Police Department of the RA Ministry of Internal Affairs received an alert that one of the residents of the special shelter located at 29/1 Moldovakan Street was in a mentally unbalanced state and asked a police officer to come to him in order to take him to a mental health center.

Shamshyan.com reports that after some time, the Nor Nork Police Department received information that a child who was abused at the address was taken by the ambulance team to the Wigmore Medical Center with the diagnosis of “bruises on the body and neck with a lip injury.”

According to the source, the officers of the Nor Nork police department found out that the victim was a 3-year-old boy, an Iraqi citizen, and on the same day, around 10:00 a.m., the 35-year-old mother shouted at the child in the allocated room, after which she hit him several times on different parts of the body, then threw him from the bed to the floor and dragged him, causing physical injuries.

On the facts of the incident, documents were drawn up in the Nor Nork police department, which were transferred to the investigative department of the Avan and Nor Nork administrative districts of the Yerevan City Investigation Department of the RA Investigative Committee.

Notice: The person suspected or accused of the alleged crime is considered innocent, until his guilt is proven in accordance with the procedure established by the RA Criminal Procedure Code, by the court’s legally binding verdict.

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2026 declassified by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The Annual Threat Assessment report makes clear the algorithms of that superpower’s calculations regarding events in our region.

Everything resembles a dry calculation without adequate legal evaluations, but they did not publicly express the non-existence of international law for nothing. The analysis of Aliyev’s demand to change the Constitution is typical. “There are still obstacles on the way to the final conclusion of the peace agreement. For example, President Aliyev continues to insist that Armenia should amend its Constitution to remove a reference to what he interprets as a provision making Nagorno Karabakh part of Armenia. That step will require holding a constitutional referendum in Armenia, the result of which is not guaranteed.”

Thus, the US is not worried about the criminal attitude of the Azerbaijani president to dictate demands to Armenia based on his own mental abilities, clearly undermining the sovereignty of Armenia, but the fear that this step will simply require a referendum, the result of which is not guaranteed.

It is an indisputable fact that in the current legal and political climate in Armenia, when even in the republican elections it is not possible to ensure at least 50 percent participation, which is a mandatory condition for the referendum. Even the Yerevan Council of Elders in 2023 the participation in the elections was barely 28.4 percent.

Moreover, we publicly voiced this important circumstance 4 years ago, when the declaration of “Independence” was considered problematic for the first time.

Once again, we emphasize two very key reservations: a) the “Independence” declaration does not contain a territorial claim, but only respect for the right of the people to self-determination, which is a norm of international law, b) the preamble of the Constitution is intended to be based not on all 12 points of the Declaration (some of them were ignored back in 1991, when the institution of the president was introduced), but on “the fundamental principles of Armenian statehood and national goals”.

P.S. In the United States, at least they understood well that the demand to change the Constitution on the above-mentioned basis is an insurmountable obstacle, and if we look more complexly, we can state that it is a road leading to a dead end, because in case of failure of the referendum, we inevitably confirm with our own hands the legal fact of having territorial ambitions as if by the mother law, along with the inevitable negative consequences arising from it. Steps to “revise” voter lists are also futile. It’s not too late…

Doctor of Law, Professor Gevorg Danielyan

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The government of Armenia puts an end to speculations about pressures on businessmen. The authorities guarantee unprecedented support, demanding absolute fiscal discipline in return.

During the government session held on March 19, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan categorically denied rumors circulating on social networks and in letters that the state has started a campaign to intimidate the private sector. The head of the government emphasized that there is no desire or purpose to terrorize the economy.

On the contrary, the state implements incentive programs worth tens of billions, thanks to which almost every company today benefits from preferential loans or state support for equipment modernization. According to the Prime Minister, this concept of transparent cooperation was discussed during a workshop with businessmen held in Jermuk last year, which led to relevant legislative changes. In return for this extensive support, the state expects only strict compliance from the business.

Pashinyan emphasized that they do not demand a single penny more, but they will not tolerate a single penny less tax payment. The Prime Minister concluded his speech with an assurance, officially declaring tax terror closed and, more importantly, not declaring it open.

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The anti-corruption fight in Armenia gives tangible results. about 773 million dollars worth of property of illegal origin was returned to the state and communities.

This was announced by the Prosecutor General at the government meeting on March 19 Anna Vardapetyanstressing that the law enforcement system has reached a stage when criminal cases are sent to court and judgments in illegal property confiscation proceedings are made almost simultaneously.

Of the total returned assets, $504 million worth of property was transferred directly to the state. In addition, more than eighty illegal buildings have already been dismantled in the coastal part of Lake Sevan within the framework of the restoration of legality.

As a recent example of successful work, the Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Davit Khudatyan presented the return of the seven thousand square meter plot of land near the TV tower of the capital to the state.

This area, worth more than one million dollars, the contract of alienation of which was signed back in 2005, will now be given to the Ministry of Environment for the purpose of forest protection.

The Prosecutor General detailed that this episode is related to the settlement concluded with the confiscation proceedings of the assistant of the former mayor of Abovyan, Karapet Guloyan, and the case against the former mayor itself has already been sent to the court with a confirmed indictment. In the same area, five more similar plots were allocated to the state.

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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, at the government session on March 19, recalled the times when business lived in an atmosphere of total fear of the state apparatus.

As a vivid example, he described the absurd reality of the past, when businessmen could be raided by special forces simply for daring a high-ranking official to beat a card game. According to the head of the government, if anyone took the risk of defeating the President of the SRC or the Minister of Finance in a blot, the next day the security forces would invade him to retaliate and accuse him of mockery.

Pashinyan emphasized that such arbitrariness seems unimaginable today, as do the huge debts accumulated by the state towards the private sector. He reminded that before the change of power in 2018, the government owed 60 billion drams in VAT to the business, and no one dared to even hint at the return of these funds, fearing a real “tax terror”.

Currently, according to the Prime Minister, this debt has been completely repaid, and the value added tax refund system is working in full automatic mode, erasing the dark realities of the past from the public’s memory.

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According to part 1 of Article 155 of the “Regulations of the National Assembly” constitutional law, the deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Vladimir Vardanyan submitted his resignation on March 19, 2026. We learn about this from the NA website.

According to Part 2 of Article 155 of the Constitutional Law “Regulations of the National Assembly”, if within one week after the publication of the resignation, the deputy withdraws his resignation in a written application, then the President of the National Assembly makes a statement to that effect, if he does not withdraw his resignation, a protocol is drawn up about the termination of his powers, which is signed and published by the President of the National Assembly. The resignation is considered accepted from the moment of publication of the protocol.

Let’s remind that Vardanyan was nominated by the President of the Republic of Armenia as a candidate for the judge of the Supreme Court.

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The Armenian government is starting large-scale preparations for the 8th European Political Community Summit to be held in Yerevan on May 4, 2026. In the session of March 19, the executive made a decision to allocate urgently required 350 million drams from the reserve fund for the purpose of repairing the infrastructure of the sports concert complex.

One billion drams will be spent for the event from the state budget. It is noteworthy that “BIDEK” LLC, owned by a former deputy, was declared the winner in the tender for construction works with an offer of 573 million drams. Mher Sedrakyan որդուն՝ Davit Sedrakyan։

Despite the fact that the family has previously represented the opposition “Hayastan” faction, their company regularly receives large state orders in construction projects. The works planned by the project must be completed strictly before the start of the summit.

President of France in 2022 Emmanuel Macron The European Political Community created by the initiative is one of the most important intergovernmental platforms of European countries. A historic event for the region was registered within the framework of the first meeting of this format in Prague.

Through the mediation of European leaders, the Prime Minister of Armenia and the President of Azerbaijan, based on the Alma-Ata Declaration, mutually recognized the territorial integrity of the two countries. At that time, an agreement was reached on the location of the EU civilian mission on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, which makes the political significance of the upcoming meeting in Yerevan even more important.

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Renovation works are ongoing at the Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex. This was reported by the KSMS Ministry.

RA Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Zhanna Andreasyan paid another visit to the memorial today to monitor their progress.

The representatives of the contractor organization presented the progress of the works, the current situation.

The minister of KMS once again stressed the need to carry out the works with proper quality and within the specified time, stressing that this issue is in the center of attention of the state.

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