The Armenian government does not hide its desire to move to the practical implementation of the TRIPP project as soon as possible. It is clear from Nikol Pashinyan’s latest statements that Yerevan is counting on the readiness of the American side.

However, any major regional project is viable only if it takes into account the security interests and perceptions of not only the immediate participants, but also the key players in the region, Iran and Russia.

Just one day before Pashinyan’s announcement, Iran’s ambassador to Armenia, Khalil Shirgholami, clearly presented Tehran’s concerns. According to him, one of the agenda priorities of Armenian-Iranian relations is the management of risks arising from TRIPP and the prevention of possible challenges.

The ambassador emphasized that it is necessary to develop such mechanisms that, on the one hand, will enable Armenia to fully realize the potential of lifting the embargo, and on the other hand, will neutralize the risks arising from the strategic presence of the USA and exclude any threats to Iran’s security.

These wordings prove that Iran’s main concern is the security environment that can be formed as a result of the implementation of the project. This approach has clear geopolitical foundations. After the military operations of the USA and Israel, Tehran has become significantly sensitive to any expansion of American influence near its own borders. If TRIPP is perceived in Tehran as a tool of US strategic presence in the form of infrastructure with 99 years of rights, it will be difficult to expect the project to be accepted under the current parameters.

Russia’s position towards TRIPP also has clear security and geopolitical foundations, although it is expressed in a more cautious way. Moscow views the project as an expansion of the US’s strategic presence in the South Caucasus, in its traditional sphere of influence. Although Russia’s position in the region has weakened significantly after the events of 2020 and 2023, Moscow still has leverage to influence the course of the project. Russia maintains influence over the railway infrastructure of Armenia, which can become a serious factor during the implementation of the railway component of TRIPP. In addition, Russian border guard units continue to carry out service in some parts of the Armenia-Iran border, including in the vicinity of the possible TRIPP crossing zone. These factors allow Moscow, if necessary, to complicate or slow down the practical implementation of the project.

The official reaction is still cautious-sceptical. Russia avoids an open confrontation with the project named after Trump, but the statements of high-ranking officials already sound warnings about the dangers of Armenia going the “Ukrainian way”. Moscow threatens with economic consequences: increase in gas prices, restriction of market access and problems related to the Armenian diaspora.

Thus, the future of TRIPP does not depend only on the political will of Yerevan and Washington. As much as the Armenian authorities are interested in the quick start of the project, its implementation cannot be imagined without taking into account the regional power balance and security architecture. The important components of that balance are the security interests of Iran and Russia, which if ignored, any initiative will face serious political and practical resistance.

Therefore, the key issue of the upcoming negotiations should not be the quick implementation of TRIPP, but its political and security reformulation, taking into account the red lines of Tehran and Moscow. If it is possible to develop a model that will be accepted by Iran and Russia, the project can continue under new conditions. Otherwise, it may not turn into a platform for regional cooperation, but another hotbed of new geopolitical contradictions.

The impulses of the Iranian ambassador and the Russian side clearly show that the original logic of TRIPP is no longer sufficient. The new military-political realities formed in the region require editing of the project and a new balance of interests. Otherwise, the haste of the Armenian authorities may face not only technical, but also serious geopolitical opposition, both from the south and from the north.

Political scientist Suren Surenyants

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The President of Azerbaijan stated that for many years, the basis of the Karabakh conflict negotiations was the handing over of the former Nagorno-Karabakh region, Karvachar and Lachin regions to the RA.

According to Aliyev, the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, represented by the USA, Russia and France, also insisted on this solution.

By the way, these ideas and positions are also seen in Pashinyan’s package of the Artsakh negotiation process published last year.

In fact, the main international actors defended Artsakh’s right to self-determination, negotiations were held in that direction for many years, but the Pashinyan government rejected that approach and handed over Artsakh to Azerbaijan.

Tigran Abrahamyan, secretary of “I have an honor” faction

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The US Armed Forces announced that they will resume the naval blockade against Iran from today. It was noted that the entry and exit of ships going to and leaving Iranian ports will be blocked. The safe navigation of only those ships that will not violate the blockade requirements (of course, money, fee) will be ensured.

At the same time, according to The New York Times, President Trump has officially informed Congress about the resumption of military operations against Iran.

After these statements of the US President and the Armed Forces, oil prices increased by 8%.

Iran also has its plans of actions aimed at resistance and protection of interests. The countries that will cooperate with the USA against him have already been announced as legal targets. US-owned facilities in neighboring countries are targeted.

At the initiative of France and England, the leaders of 25 countries, within the framework of the “coalition of the determined”, have gathered and are discussing the issues of supporting Ukraine against Russia, resisting further actions, and defending against more powerful ballistic and strategic strikes.

The President of Russia promises to strike Ukraine several times more powerfully.

Along with the new regional escalations, Aliyev took ambitious and tougher positions to strengthen his positions in the South Caucasus. From the footnotes of the latter’s statements, it can be seen that the peace treaty with Armenia is not so interesting to him. Azerbaijan sees the developments and its role in it differently.

Clearly, a new phase of regional turbulence is beginning…

P.S. Does the leader of a completely failed government, aimlessly climbing the slopes of Khustup, have the slightest idea of ​​how to cope with the new turbulence that lies ahead?

Former RA Deputy Defense Minister Artak Zakaryan

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H.E. Karekin the Second Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians visited the Iranian Embassy in Armenia and paid his respects to the memory of the martyred supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei.

During the meeting with the Iranian Ambassador to Armenia, Khalil Shirgolami, His Holiness expressed his condolences and sympathy to the government and people of Iran and expressed hope that the peace-loving people of Iran will be able to restore security.

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There are historical moments when the external course of political events is deceptive.

It seems that the elections have ended, the mandates have been distributed, the post-election tension has passed, a relative calm has been established, the government is distributing positions, and the political forces are rearranging themselves to find the way of their future struggle.

But in fact, under the cover of silence, something completely different is happening in the depths of the earth. The foundation of the state is cracking. After June 7, Armenia reached such a dramatic milestone.

The created situation is a simultaneous crisis of legitimacy, legal state and statehood. And when these three crises coincide, the state begins to exist more in external forms than in its internal content.

Today’s government holds in its hands the state administration and power system, the courts and the parliamentary majority, but this control is not yet statehood. The state exists as long as the power rests on trust, justice and awareness of the common destiny. When these foundations are lost, the government turns into a self-preservation machine that covers up its crisis of legitimacy with new repressions, criminal prosecutions of dissidents, and the spread of public fear. From that point on, repression is no longer a political choice, but the system’s main mode of survival.

However, not only the government is facing a crisis. The entire opposition field faces an equally crucial choice.

Parliamentary and extra-parliamentary forces should decide whether they are able to form a common platform and a common agenda of struggle, or whether they will take the path of decentralized resistance.

United struggle is certainly the way to consolidate power. But the decentralized struggle can also be effective if it does not turn into private ambitions, mutual neutralization and endless competition for the same audience.

It is not necessary that everyone be in the same structure, stand on the same stage or speak the same vocabulary. However, it is imperative that the independent agendas are synchronous, complementary and directed against the same systemic problem.

The forms of struggle may be different, but the meaning of struggle cannot be contradictory.

And the basis that unites these different ways should be the national one.

Not national, as a word used in speeches, but as a defense of the state’s identity, historical memory, sovereignty and right to exist.

Anti-Turkish, not in the sense of enmity towards peoples, but in the sense of rejecting the Turkish-Azerbaijani expansionist policy towards Armenia, the rewriting of history and the plan to break the will of our national resistance.

Anti-authoritarian, not in the sense of personal hatred or revenge, but in the sense of fighting against the system that internally presents external coercion as peace, retreat as realism, and national self-denial as state wisdom.

Today, the question is not even whether the struggle will be unified or decentralized.

History often does not even ask people if they are ready. It simply mercilessly puts them before the choice.

Our choice today is between the state and the system, national resistance and adaptation to defeat.
All other differences are temporary. This choice is fatal.

Davit Ananyan, former chairman of the RA SRC

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On July 13, within the framework of the high-level political forum on sustainable development held in New York, RA Deputy Foreign Minister Robert Abisoghomoyan had a meeting with UN Secretary General Rosemary DiCarlo, Deputy Secretary General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs.

This was reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia presented the efforts aimed at further strengthening the peace established in the South Caucasus. The implementation of projects aimed at the development of transport infrastructures and the promotion of interconnection was highlighted in the context of the full realization of the region’s potential.

The interlocutors discussed the “UN80” reform process. In this context, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs emphasized the importance of ensuring the continuity of the effective activities of UN structures within the framework of development cooperation, human rights protection and prevention agendas.

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia and the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations also discussed the activities carried out ahead of the 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP17) to be held in Armenia in October.

Thoughts were exchanged on issues related to international security.

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The preliminary investigation of the criminal proceedings regarding the multi-crime crimes committed by persons with the highest status of the criminal hierarchy and those related to them has been completed in the Department of Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity of the Main Department of Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the RA Investigative Committee.

This is reported by the Central Committee.

In particular, on the basis of the evidence obtained as a result of the large-scale operational operations carried out by the investigative team as part of the criminal proceedings, as well as the operative and investigative measures, attempted murder, murder preparation, robbery by a group of persons with prior consent, house burglaries, illegal sale of firearms, destruction of large-scale property of others by means of arson, possession of large-scale narcotics for the purpose of sale, kidnapping of a person with prior consent by a group of persons, hooliganism with the use of weapons. to initiate public criminal prosecution against 15 persons a motion was filed with the supervising prosecutor, which was granted.

Detention was applied to 9 out of 15 persons as a preventive measure, and alternative preventive measures were applied to the others.

The criminal proceedings were sent with the indictment to the supervising prosecutor with a request to send it to the court for confirmation and examination.

Notice: the person accused of a crime is considered innocent until his guilt is proven in accordance with the procedure established by the Code of Criminal Procedure by a legally binding court verdict.

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Within the framework of the criminal proceedings initiated regarding the events that took place in Yerevan on March 1-2, 2008, the prosecutor, on his own initiative, on April 18, 2026, initiated a public criminal prosecution against the former head of the RA Central Police Police, H.H., in accordance with part 2 of Article 38-309 of the Criminal Code adopted on April 18, 2003 (transfer of official powers by an official). aiding and abetting, combined with the use of violence, weapons or special measures) and part 2 of Article 315 (official negligence, which negligently caused the death of a person or other serious consequences).

This is reported by the Prosecutor’s Office.

In the criminal proceedings, it was found that H.H., occupying the position of Chief of Police under the RA Government from 2003 to May 29, 2008, carrying out the general management of the RA Police, passing his official powers on March 1, 2008, in collusion with other high-ranking officials of the RA Police, organized riots in the city of Yerevan, combined with the use of violence and special measures by various police units. Dispersing the peaceful sit-in demonstration in “Freedom” Square, forcefully removing the protesters from the square, and then in the central parts of the city exclusion of gatherings, possible demonstrations and gatherings, which actions caused significant damage to the rights and legal interests of individuals, as well as the legal interests of society and the state.

The basis of the other charge brought against H.H., who held the position of Police Chief, is the fact that H.H., as the head of the police state administration body, is obliged to submit to the consideration of the Government of the Republic of Armenia drafts and recommendations of normative legal acts related to the activities and organization of the work of the police, including the procedure for the use of “Cheryomukha 7” tear gas and “Zarya” light and other special means, but did not fulfill this duty.

Considering that H.H. died in 2019, the decision to initiate a public criminal prosecution against him was handed over to his legal representative, his wife.

H.H.’s wife objected to stop the public criminal prosecution against H.H. based on the death of the accused.

The materials of the criminal proceedings No. 62292726 separated from the criminal proceedings No. 62202608 by the supervising prosecutor were returned to the body conducting the proceedings, the Anti-Corruption Committee, to take measures to complete the preliminary investigation with an indictment.

Notice: the person accused of a crime is considered innocent until his guilt is proven in accordance with the procedure established by the Code of Criminal Procedure by a legally binding court verdict.

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Naturally ripened summer fruits, berries and vegetables contain the maximum amount of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants that meet our body’s needs by strengthening the immune system.

The use of seasonal fruits, berries and vegetables is the basis of a healthy and balanced diet, and experts from the Food Safety Inspection Authority recommend following a number of simple rules when choosing vegetables and fruits, thus minimizing seasonal outbreaks of intestinal infectious diseases:

– buy fruits and vegetables only from approved and controlled outlets,

– if necessary, request documents confirming the quality and safety of the food,

– pay attention to the seller’s personal hygiene,

– check the sanitary and hygienic condition of the place of sale and the surrounding area.

“When shopping, pay attention to the appearance, color and smell of the food. The fruits must have a color characteristic of the given species, be whole, without signs of spoilage, decay or damage to the skin. Ripe and quality fruits usually have a pleasant and natural aroma.

We remind you that it is forbidden to sell rotten, spoiled or damaged or unfit for consumption vegetables and fruits.

Wash the fruits thoroughly under running water before use.

Do not forget about personal hygiene. wash your hands before eating, after returning home from outside, and after contact with animals.

Maintain the storage conditions of fruits, vegetables and berries at the right temperature to maintain freshness and safety for a long time.

“The right choice of fruit vegetables and observance of a number of simple rules of hygiene will help to take advantage of the beneficial properties of seasonal foods without the risks of seasonal outbreaks of infectious diseases,” the message reads.

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As a result of the activities carried out by the employees of the RA Anti-Corruption Committee, factual information was obtained that a person acting on behalf of the “Wings of Unity” party paid an election bribe to a registered serviceman voter in Artsvanik settlement of Kapan community of Syunik marz in order to participate in the National Assembly elections and vote for their party.

Regarding the case, the RA Anti-Corruption Committee initiated criminal proceedings, 2 persons were arrested, searches and other procedural actions were carried out.

Notice: the person accused of a crime is considered innocent until his guilt is proven in accordance with the procedure established by the RA Criminal Procedure Code by a legally binding court verdict.

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