On February 4, with the article “Will Pashinyan show the new weapons to keep the power?” in the article we wrote that at some point, Nikol Pashinyan may not consider the reaction of individual groups to be sufficient after getting acquainted with the new weapons, and organize a public demonstration in the period close to the elections. After all, one must somehow try to prove that the external debt has grown justifiably. We had clearly stated reliable information by writing.

“By the way, just these days 168.am received information, according to which it is not excluded that on May 28, Nikol Pashinyan will organize a military parade of the newly purchased weapons. Information about a possible location has also been provided, but due to security reasons, we will not speak. Regarding this topic, we tried to get an explanation from the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, but it was not possible to contact the officials, so we sent a written request, we will present it as soon as we receive the answer.

And our question to the Ministry of Defense was clear: Is a demonstration-military parade of the newly purchased weapons planned for May 28, that is, in Sardarapat?

On February 10 we have published The response letter of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, which states:

«As of now, there are no discussions on holding an arms show-military parade in Sardarapat.”

In our second article on this topic, we drew attention to the fact that the Ministry of Defense in its response mentioned only the possible location of the military parade, Sardarapat, and not the date, May 28.

Accordingly, we assumed that a few days before the National Assembly elections, in any case, there would be a public display of newly purchased weapons in some format, especially since the Ministry of Defense stated that “there is no such discussion at the moment.” In other words, the possibility of this has not been ruled out.

And here is Nikol Pashinyan in Kapan on March 15 confirmed 168.amin early February, as well as our observations in this regard, saying in a conversation with citizens.

“There is a lot of talk about weapons, we also say why the state debt has increased. I made a statement 2-3 months ago that I will take and show those citizens who want to see what we have achieved. I have already invited several groups, we have gone, but the number of people is so large that we came to the conclusion that we should show it to everyone, we should show it publicly. And we are thinking of making a public demonstration in the near future so that our citizens can see what we are talking about. We will present a report to the people, probably in May, to show what we have done and what we have achieved. Moreover, we will show only the weapons acquired during our government and after 2022.”

Let’s remind that earlier Nikol Pashinyan is against to express in response to the display of modern weaponry purchased in the military exhibition version, including the proposals of ordinary citizens.

“There are opinions that it should be done, there are opinions that it is not necessary, for various reasons. Yes, after the military parade in Azerbaijan, the topic became active in Armenia as well. If we organized a military parade in November or December, it would be impressive, but we are preparing for the peace agenda.” in November 2025 had announced he

And in order, according to him, to “not spread wrong information”, at that moment they decided to organize a closed demonstration for individual groups.

But as we mentioned in one of our articles, if Pashinyan understands that a public demonstration or a military parade will help to keep the power, as a result of some “negotiations” with the Azerbaijani side, Pashinyan may go for it as well. It turned out that we were not mistaken.

Considering the need for a public display of the weapons purchased in Kapan during the last 2-3 years, Pashinyan also said.

“However, we do this by emphasizing peace and in the context of peace. there is peace, there is no tension with our neighbors, we hope that our neighbors will not perceive this as a show of aggression.”

In other words, months ago, in the logic of the peace agenda, it was not advisable to show weapons, now it is possible in the context of peace. And why, we have already mentioned.

By the way, published in February of this year, “From Pinaka to Gripen. Armenia opens its cards, Azerbaijan buys 6.5 billion worth of fighter jets” according to our article we wrote in the article: when during the visit of General Anil Chauhan, Chief of the Defense Staff of the Indian Armed Forces to Armenia, the samples of Armenian and Indian weapons were made public, Azerbaijan accepted it quite mildly, even though Azerbaijan once is a danger seen even at the level of the armed forces of the special forces of the Republic of Armenia.

Can we say that Pashinyan is trying to get a verbal agreement from Aliyev in such matters, otherwise how can we understand the change in approaches to the appropriateness of a public display of weapons over the months?

As for the increase in the state external debt based on the purchase of weapons, there are also interesting episodes related to it. we have reminded.

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Yerevan Medical University named after Mkhitar Heratsi has made its next major purchase from “Ar.Medtechnika” LLC.

We learn from the recently publicized contract in the armeps electronic procurement system that this LLC, through a non-competitive one-person procurement procedure, undertook the obligation to provide annual maintenance services for the GE CT Revolution EVO model computed tomographic complex and the GE Allia IGS 540 model angiographic system with the replacement of spare parts for the purpose of organizing the works of the “Heratsi” No. 1 hospital complex.

The price of the contract is 75 million 988,800 drams.

168․amthe referred to to “Ar.Medtechnika”, specifically informing that the director of this LLC is Nune, the sister of Minister of Health and Medical Sciences Zhanna Andreasyan.

According to the register of legal entities, the company has been operating since 2012, and since then Vahram Torosyan has been a shareholder of the company. today his share is 100 percent.

By the way, the company, which has been operating since 2012, has been participating in state procurement since 2017, but it has been very active especially after 2018, signing hundreds of large contracts with various government departments through various procedures.

By the way, at the end of the previous year, the Ministry of Health made a purchase of around 105 million drams from “Ar.medtechnika” LLC under an urgent one-person procedure in a non-competitive manner.

According to this purchase procedure, purchases from LLC have been made since 2018. already 5 purchases, in the case of 4 of which the customer is YSUBU.

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Today, Hovhannes Petrosyan informed that the fake video posted by Baku on YouTube regarding Alexander Spendiaryan was removed as a result of their complaints.

“One of the biggest news channels of bad neighbors on YouTube, baku TV, which has 1.3 million followers, about a month ago, using the materials of the YouTube channel of Alexander Spendiaryan House-museum, created a piece with completely false theses and rewritten material in a publication about Alexander Spendiaryan, where the sources of inspiration for his work are denied, and false theses about Yerevan are presented, and it was a very good clip. on.

In the previous few weeks, I burdened the director of the museum, Mrs. Marine Otaryan, who collected counterfactual materials for every second, and we turned to YouTube to remove the video.” had written Hovhannes Poghosyan.

Director of Alexander Spendiaryan House-Museum, composer Marine Otaryan detailing what happened on 168.am briefly conveyed.

“What appeared on that channel was a report about our show, where there were some errors and inaccuracies, a case of copyright infringement, they took materials from our website, which we appealed.

The exhibition took place in our museum at the end of last year, it was called “Expendiary Yerevan”, which was covered by various TV stations. They made a report that contained false and incorrect information, and after we complained, the material was removed.”

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The neighboring Islamic Republic of Iran has been at war with the United States and Israel for about 17 days, since the start of an undeclared war by the latter.

While the US leadership continues to make contradictory statements, stating that they are winning, then denying that statement, then emphasizing that they have destroyed the Iranian air force and leadership, the Russian side records that the plan to conquer Iran in one day has failed. Today, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced that the consequences of the conflict over Iran have gone beyond the regional borders of the Middle East and have reached global dimensions.

“Those who, parallel to these events, deal with the response to aggression, who carry out terrorism against energy infrastructures, oil tankers, commit terrorist acts, of course, they probably want to draw attention to themselves. But the consequences are much wider. And they are no longer regional at all, they have a global scale,” Lavrov noted.

“As for the prospects of this conflict, it is difficult to say. Recently, US President Trump said that Iran is, I quote, “totally crushed”.

And on the same day, the representative of the Israel Defense Forces announced: “We still have a thousand targets ahead of us, and we will work towards those targets at least until Pesach,” that is, at least three more weeks. Therefore, it is difficult to predict what consequences this crisis may have, how it may end, if they do not immediately stop, come to their senses and start working out agreements that will not fail this time,” Lavrov said. According to him, “guarantees are needed” for that.

“I perfectly understand that Iran needs such guarantees,” the Russian Foreign Minister added.

According to him, the plan to conquer Iran in one day has failed.

“If they expected that in one day, in a few hours, they would achieve the task of completely subjugating this state to them, then, probably, they now understand how much they were wrong, how misguided they were,” Lavrov said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi also stated that the USA and Israel have already learned a good lesson by attacking Iran.

“I assume that by now they have already learned a good lesson, they have understood what kind of nation they are dealing with, a nation that will not allow itself to hesitate in terms of defense and is ready to continue the war as long as it is necessary and where it is necessary,” said Araghchi, whose words were quoted by the Iranian Foreign Ministry.

According to him, Tehran intends to continue military operations “until US President Donald Trump admits his mistake” in the military operation against the Islamic Republic.

“Our powerful armed forces will continue to fight until the US president realizes that the illegal war he has imposed on both the Americans and the Iranians is wrong and must never be repeated.” The victims should receive compensation,” Araghchi wrote on social networks. At the same time, he announced Iran’s “willingness to discuss any proposal that will lead to a just end to the war.”

168.amin a conversation with Russian analyst Vladimir Yevseyev said that the US-Israeli attack on Iran is a classic example of how great powers miscalculate the adversary’s military-political resistance and the regional environment.

According to him, in the first phase of the attack, they acted in the scenario of applying quick pressure and achieving a quick result. at the initial stage of the attack, the US and Israel were guided by the calculation that quick and intense military strikes would force Iran to retreat quickly, because they assumed that Iran’s military infrastructure could be hit quickly, Iran would not want a large-scale escalation, and regional actors would not intervene.

However, under the leadership of Vladimir Yevseyev, the problem began at the stage when Iran turned the war into a full-scale escalation and a full-scale war, responding to the US-Iranian military operation with the psychology of a full-scale war.

He also believes that the miscalculation also referred to the underestimation of Iran’s resistance network, Iran’s strategy is not based only on the army, but also on regional partners.

“In Washington, perhaps, it was assumed that it was possible to increase military pressure as much as necessary, while maintaining control over it. However, in reality, in such conflicts, the opponent often responds not at the same level, but with disproportionate steps, which violates the initial calculations.

Another miscalculation is misjudging the regional environment, the Middle East is a complex region that has changed a lot in recent years as well. In this environment, it is difficult even for the great powers. Therefore, because of all this, the attempt to get a quick strategic result turned into a long and more complicated conflict. This will be extended, I think, until Iran receives certain guarantees,” Vladimir Yevseyev said.

In his assessment, a prolonged military confrontation is not in the interests of any side, but it is definitely not in the interest of the United States, which will find it difficult to fight a long war in a war that is very expensive due to the distance.

“I think, however, this war will not have direct consequences for the South Caucasus if the regional countries continue their current positions, although I think Iran would like to get more support from all partner countries and is conducting even more active diplomacy at this stage. Henceforth, the expanding influence of the US in the South Caucasus will be an even bigger problem for Iran, negotiating with which the US hit Iran twice,” said Vladimir Yevseyev.

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In the sports concert complex named after Karen Demirchyan, the solemn event of the “Armenia” Alliance is taking place, during which the name of the Alliance’s candidate for the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia will be announced.

And before that, ARF Armenian GM representative Ishkhan Saghatelyan informed about the new format of “Armenia” bloc’s participation in the 2026 parliamentary elections.

“Today I have the honor to officially announce that the second president of RA, Robert Kocharyan, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation have decided to continue cooperation.

We have been joined by the “Forward” party, many public and public figures, we will participate in the upcoming elections together with the “Armenia” alliance,” Ishkhan Saghatelyan elaborated, stating that the election slogan of the “Armenia” alliance will be “Together we can”.

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Nikol Pashinyan builds his regional pre-election visits on the logic of presenting the “achievements” of the past 7-8 years and appearing accountable. What kind of economic success is Nikol Pashinyan entering the pre-election stage? 168․amin a conversation with NA opposition deputy, economist Tadevos Avetisyan.

First of all, he drew attention to the economic opportunities that were not capitalized and missed.

“In a specific period, any country, under any circumstances, has a certain economic activity, there are certain growths, there is a positive development, but is it enough or not, or was it close to the opportunity we had? If we answer the question, the answer will be negative,” the specialist noted and added, “after the Covid pandemic, we had a sharp decline and we were the only country in the region that was not able to recover from the economic decline of the previous year.”

And as for further increases, which were caused by an external factor, in particular, the Russian-Ukrainian war, they were not capitalized and did not become the basis for further investments and further growth. This is obvious because along with the weakening of that factor, we saw that economic activity also slows down inertially.”

The economist also drew attention to the fact that the pre-election promises of the previous elections failed, noting that the indicators that were announced years ago are far from reality today.

“Even in the case of raising pensions according to pre-election logic, they did not keep their promise, or if we look at the index of poverty reduction. they promised to reduce the poverty level twice, but compared to 2018, there is a slight decrease in the poverty level. They said that we should eliminate extreme poverty, but that is not the case.

They also did not fulfill the promise of raising the minimum wage. Or, they were talking about the 2.6 billion euro project, about the national air carrier, do you know what happened to ANIF, now it’s still the pre-election stage, and they are talking about investments again, but we witnessed the opening of many large enterprises when the red tape was cut, and now, if you go and look, not only there are no productions there, but also there is no economic activity at all,” concluded Tadevos Avetisyan.

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On February 11, the chairman of the “Reformists” party, former deputy of the National Assembly, Vahan Babayan announced that he offered the former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, Vagharshak Harutyunyan, to head the party’s pre-election list.

A month later, on March 12, with Petros Ghazaryan in the interview Nikol Pashinyan’s former adviser stated that he gave his consent and also answered the questions favorable to the government circles, for example, who was ready to hand over Meghri and when.

Meanwhile, Vagharshak Harutyunyan, who submitted an application for participation in the elections, should also answer a number of other questions and shed light on some episodes, why not take responsibility? More on this later.

And before that, we should mention that before we offered the former Minister of Defense to give an interview and answer our questions about these election topics, Vagharshak Harutyunyan replied that he is not giving an interview yet, and asked to wait a while, when he decides to give interviews, he will answer our questions first.

We respected his decision and even when it was announced that the former minister could head the “Reformists” electoral list, we did not call him for a comment.

But when we saw that Harutyunyan went to the Public Television, that is, he is already ready to give interviews, we called him and offered to answer our questions, to which the former Minister of Defense stated that he is not giving an interview now, when we reminded him that he answered the government’s questions a few days ago, maybe he is now ready to answer only their questions, he repeated what he said.

We informed Vagharshak Harutyunyan that we will publicize that he refused to answer our questions.

“Yes, I’m not giving an interview, that’s it,” he responded.

And what questions should the former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia answer?

First, Nikol Pashinyan on August 18, 2020 by decision Harutyunyan was appointed his chief adviser. That is, one month before the 44-day war, and, in fact, he was engaged in foreign relations related to the military sphere. To what extent have we succeeded in this matter, since when was it clear that war was imminent?

For example, the former head of the General Staff of the RA Armed Forces Onik Gasparyan published in June 2023 statement states that taking into account the results of the multi-faceted assessment of the situation created at that time, on July 4, 2020 Nikol Pashinyan was offered to take political and diplomatic measures aimed at preventing war, or at least creating favorable conditions for the use of the RA Armed Forces, as well as drastically improving relations with Russia, Iran and Georgia.

Moreover, in order to dramatically improve relations with our strategic ally Russia, according to the general, he even presented a clear sequence of actions.

Has Pashinyan’s adviser Vagharshak Harutyunyan, who has some negotiation experience, tried to do anything in the Russian direction or not? Or what he did during the war as an adviser to the Prime Minister, why did the system of governance fail?

By the way, Vagharshak Harutyunyan’s close friend Andranik Kocharyan did not invite him to the 44-day investigation commission either.

And after the resignation or release of Davit Tonoyan on November 20, 2020, Harutyunyan was appointed Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia.

To what extent Pashinyan’s former advisor has been able to work with Russia, one of the parties to the November 9 tripartite declaration, one can perhaps speculate.

On the other hand, let’s not forget that December 2020 is in Azerbaijan give up The Goris-Kapan intersection, when Vagharshak Harutyunyan was the Minister of Defense.

We have not once detailed this topic we have touched on, but let’s recall an episode or two.

Specifically, on December 18, 2020 168.amto the question, there are rumors in the press and social networks that Defense Minister Vagharshak Harutyunyan signed a secret contract on the instructions of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. to sign with the Russian side, handing over the protection of the Syunik positions to the Russian border guards, from the military department they explained. «The Minister of Defense cannot sign any document related to the borders of the Republic of Armenia. According to that, the Minister of Defense did not sign, could not sign a document, even a secret one, which refers to the borders of the Republic of Armenia, particularly Syunik”.

As early as August 2024, the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sputnik Armenia to the question whether, after the 44-day Artsakh war, a document was signed with Russia regarding border control on the Goris-Kapan highway, answered. 

“We inform you that A document of this nature was signed between the Ministers of Defense of the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation.”

Besides this, in 2021, Nikol Pashinyan had announced, that He personally gave the order to withdraw the troops in Syunik, and Defense Minister Vagharshak Harutyunyan did just that.

But come and see, the same Nikol Pashinyan in November 2025 had announced.

«I have never given any order about the withdrawal of RA troops from any sovereign territory of RA.”

From RA Investigative Committee to 168.am had reported, that no criminal proceedings have been initiated regarding the withdrawal of troops from Syunik, no preliminary investigation is being conducted.

Vagharshak Harutyunyan, who was the Minister of Defense at that time, who also visited Pashinyan on December 15, 2020 for consultations on the developments related to Syunik to participate, doesn’t have anything to say or explain about all this? And maybe he doesn’t think that an unofficial one-sided border demarcation took place and we gave territory to Azerbaijan, that there was a troop withdrawal, or maybe he thinks that in this way we are preventing an attack against Armenia?

But all this is not the whole thing, when Vagharshak Harutyunyan was the Minister of Defense, in May 2021, Azerbaijan entered the sovereign territory of Armenia, which “facilitated” other advances, and now, when the territories occupied by Armenia have not yet been returned, and on various occasions the issue of their Armenian citizenship is being questioned, when Azerbaijan is strengthening itself in those territories.

Moreover, regarding the May 2021 promotions, former military officials are facing criminal cases, does Vagharshak Harutyunyan still have nothing to say, especially when on one occasion Pashinyan inadvertently confessed, that according to his instructions, the army did not resist the Azerbaijani advances, so that the extraordinary elections of the National Assembly of June 2021 take place.

One month after this, in July 2021, Vagharshak Harutyunyan had resigned from the position he held, at that time, according to the legislation, to acting Minister of Defense.

And now Vagharshak Harutyunyan himself is preparing for the NA elections, without trying to at least address the unanswered questions, to bear his share of responsibility, or can he enter a dangerous border by clashing with Nikol Pashinyan?

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Armenia is on the verge of turning into a Turkish-Azerbaijani state. The “creeping” processes of recent years have led to the fact that the Republic of Armenia almost does not exist as a sovereign entity. About this 168TVof Revue announced on the air of the program Raffi Hovhannisyan, the founder of the “Heritage” party, the first foreign minister of the newly independent Republic of Armeniatalking about Armenia’s current challenges.

“What is heard from the international podiums is not the speech of the representative of the sovereign Republic of Armenia, but the speech of some leader of the Armenian state, which is already an object. Therefore, the change that we have experienced with the last years, months and every passing day, really means that we are living in existential identity, sovereignty and statehood anxiety,” Raffi Hovhannisyan thinks.

According to the leader of “Heritage”, regional and international developments are such that many things are already happening around Armenia: war, military operations, geopolitical changes.

Raffi Hovhannisyan considers “creeping pan-Turkism” as one of the biggest threats, for which we are not ready nationally and state-wise.

“I think that first of all, there is the existential problem of the Armenian man, the RA citizen, there is the question of the existence of our statehood. In the past, we used to say “governia, gubernia”, now, really, I shouldn’t say vilayet, but we are on the verge of turning into a Turkish-Azerbaijani province,” adds Hovhannisyan.

According to the political leader, without the Armenian national identity, memory and history, one cannot expect a strong, far-reaching, self-confident future as a state, and trampling on our values ​​and national symbols by the current government, the path we have taken, has brought Armenia to the edge of the abyss, which “either we must accept, reconcile, or we must change within these weeks and months.”

According to him, one of the ways of this change is the upcoming parliamentary elections, but there are also other constitutional ways.

“All possible legal means and methods should be implemented not to guarantee the salvation of Armenia, but at least to create sufficient conditions so that Armenia, the Armenian people have the opportunity to breathe, to reform, to look to the future, and finally to have state representatives who are not only self-confident in front of the world, but also represent the rights of the Armenians, the rights of the Armenian people, the rights of the state, the nation. We have put all possible rights on the altar, we have refused, and there is not a single word, a government rhetoric, that speaks about Armenians and Armenians, Armenian rights,” said Raffi Hovhannisyan.

To the question of when the RA Declaration of Independence was a reason for war or a source of conflict, as Nikol Pashinyan tries to present in order to justify his desire to remove the reference to the Declaration of Independence from the preamble of the Constitution, Raffi Hovhannisyan emphasizes in response that the Declaration of Independence is an unchangeable part of our Constitution.

“I will not comment on them. They came to gradually implement the positions of the neighboring dictators, not having the courage to say at that moment that we should talk about Armenia’s interest: statehood, sovereignty, territorial integrity, we should write some maps, but in the end, we will come to the point that we should implement all their preconditions and demands, and they are doing that, and the Declaration of Independence is only a preamble expression, which also summarizes a part of our national rights, and it is clear that it is part of our Constitution. is an invariable part, it is not subject to change.

If we have legality, constitutionality in our country, it is not subject to change. But we should not be surprised that with one trick or another they will be able to present it as a necessity. Let there be change, let there be improvement, let us have a Constitution that is finally acceptable and accepted by the people, but not at the expense of our national interests, rights, and values. They think that they are writing a new history, but they are not writing the history of the Republic of Armenia, but the history of the Yerevan province as part of Azerbaijan,” says the leader of “Heritage”.

In this context, Raffi Hovhannisyan emphasizes that, of course, we should have lived in a different way for 30 years, but under the conditions of statehood, this government and its leader are primarily and entirely responsible for our depatriation, the loss of thousands of our bright boys, and the concession of Armenia’s territorial integrity.

“I can say that as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, I was in favor of the recognition of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic from the very first day. I can justify it now, why it was right from the beginning or at least parallel to the 1994 Tripartite ceasefire, but that doesn’t change anything now. We were not prepared as systematically as possible. We thought that security was given to us, that there was an “umbrella” over Artsakh, that everything was protected, but we did not understand that the interest of the state is higher than our personal and partial interests.

We did not realize it and did not protect it, but I can say that in diplomacy, also from the point of view of providing a border line, a front line, we protected the minimum, that is, the minimum threshold of our integrity, sovereignty and independence, and dedication to the same principles of the Declaration of Independence were secured, with big reservations, big mistakes and sins, but they were secured,” recalls the former Foreign Minister.

According to him, no figure or leader of any region is above criticism, everyone has his own fault, but this total fault does not change the direct and direct responsibility of today’s government and the ruler for our losses, defeats and humiliation.

“We are simply humiliated when we live in our country every day as Armenians and Armenians and watch how those representatives, having already lost their legitimacy, try to represent our country, our values, our identity, our civilization in accordance with the interests and words of the neighboring dictators, those who occupied us, those who subjected us to occupation. I consider that today’s ruler and the government is simply Mr. Aliyev’s authorized representative in the Republic of Armenia,” added Raffi Hovhannisyan.

Recalling Monte Melkonyan’s famous words that if we lose Artsakh, we will turn the last page of Armenian history, and answering the question, what danger is Armenia facing after the occupation of Artsakh, Raffi Hovhannisyan says:

“What we are experiencing today is montheurization.”

The founder of “Heritage” also referred to the statements allowed by the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, about the military and political leaders of Artsakh in an interview with France 24 last month, in particular, comparing the Armenian prisoners of war with the Nazis sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials, and on that occasion, the Lemkin Institute for the Prevention of Genocide. to the announcement, in which Aliyev is characterized as the leader of a genocidal state.

Raffi Hovhannisyan answers: it is hard to imagine anything more shameful, disgusting and reprehensible than the words of that dictator.

“He will have to stand before the Nuremberg court first, Armenian Nuremberg or modern international Nuremberg. He and the representatives of his military-political system should be subjected to Nuremberg justice and not by turning the reality upside down and trying to direct it in a different direction. First, they should experience their Nuremberg personally.

We know that the geopolitical reality is not such that we can expect this to become a priority agenda, and that one episode shows why it is impossible to establish real peace without symmetry, without dignity and equality. It simply depicts the inner world, on the basis of which that man and his government continue to implement their policies to this day. It is a corridor, it is “Western Azerbaijan”, it is the ongoing genocide against the cultural, church and spiritual heritage of Armenia and the Armenian people.

There are different measurements, but that one sentence shows how they treat the Armenian people, the future of Armenia and that vertical expectation that they have. They need an Armenian state, which is subordinate to Baku and Ankara, and which does not have an independent backbone and point of view,” stated Hovhannisyan.

According to Raffi Hovhannisyan, that is why we see what is happening today: the denial of the Armenian Genocide, the dismissal of the director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute for presenting a book to the US Vice President JD Vance.

According to Raffi Hovhannisyan, Vance’s speech in Yerevan, that is, expressing support for Nikol Pashinyan in the upcoming elections, is a direct interference in Armenia’s internal affairs.

“To say phenomenal would be a bit too extravagant in this case, but the ground that they have created in diplomacy and in real life does not surprise us, but when the state representative of the people subjected to genocide already takes upon himself the propaganda of the genocidal regime, their theses, their approaches, even blaming the victim, this is simply beyond this, beyond any reason, when they take the truth of the people subjected to genocide, the rights of the world, etc., turn it upside down and present it are the approach of the perpetrator, where the victim is “guilty”, he added regarding the denial of the Armenian Genocide.

Raffi Hovhannisyan compares Nikol Pashinyan’s government with the Vichy collaborator regime of Marshal Pétain, who collaborated with the Nazis in France during the Second World War.

“These are the same Vichy regime that justifies the genocidal regime and tries to present as a way to save Armenia that five thousand golden boys would die, Artsakh would be denationalized, and these were “ransoms to ensure the future of the statehood of the Republic of Armenia”. I have never seen a more absurd, more vulgar, more inhumane, stupider and meaner approach in my entire experience,” says Raffi Hovhannisyan.

According to Raffi Hovhannisyan, the issue of Artsakh is not closed, it can be returned to the international agenda in the future, that hope and dream must be kept, but it implies a lot of work and nationwide improvement.

“Armenia’s place in international politics must be restored, we must return as a subject, and in relation to the same Minsk Group, I must mention that I was the one who, as a minister, on behalf of the Republic of Armenia in 1992 In March, I accepted the mediation of the Minsk Group in Helsinki, and there, at the diplomatic table, the Republic of Armenia was represented as a full, full member and with the right of veto. There, the elected representatives of Artsakh, Nagorno Karabakh, would participate in the Minsk conference, which would decide the status of Artsakh.

In that same Helsinki document, there was the thing that since there were ongoing war operations, that the organization should open a humanitarian corridor between Armenia and Artsakh, and in fact, months later, the Armenian people themselves opened that corridor, which was decided by that same CSCE, so to say that from the beginning it was like we misunderstood the international situation, that “the Karabakh movement is some kind of dark movement”, I’ll just say them are expressions of anti-legal and criminal meaning, which deny their own history and, beyond their own history, the concept of law itself. You violate the individual and collective rights of your own people, and there can be no forgiveness for that,” recalls the former Foreign Minister of Armenia.

Full interview in the video.

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Robert Kocharyan is the prime minister candidate of the “Armenia” bloc. Anna Grigoryan, deputy of the “Hayastan” faction, announced about this a little while ago.

To remind, the second president of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, which was joined by the “Forward” party, will participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections together under the “Armenia” bloc.

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168TVof “Trigger” the guest of the program Russian political scientist, doctor of historical sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences Ye. Alexander Krylov is a senior researcher at the Caucasus Department of the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations.:

During the program, we discuss a number of current topics, for example, the projects of analysis of Armenian-Turkish history textbooks implemented with the support of Western foundations and the possible impact of such initiatives on the historical policy and educational system of Armenia, research on the formation of public opinion on the issue of the opening of the Armenian-Turkish border and the regulation of relations, the role of international grant programs and their impact on the country’s political discourse.

The campaigns against the Metsamor nuclear power plant and the issue of Armenia’s energy security, as well as the competition between Russia and the USA for the construction of a new nuclear power plant and the technological risks of the proposed projects, were considered separately.

Sociological surveys on trust in key institutions, regional transport and energy projects, security issues in Syunik, the South Azerbaijan factor and possible geopolitical competition around Iran in the South Caucasus are also at the center of the discussion.

Hayk Derzyan

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