A little while ago, with deep disgust and uncontrollable anger, I watched the video where the masked employees of the National Security Service, like predators, pounce on Gagik Tsarukyan and forcefully knock him to the ground.

This was not a show of force, but a scene of public humiliation and political terror orchestrated by a cowardly regime.

I cannot control my anger because what I saw was the transformation of the state into an instrument of political reprisal. It was not the fulfillment of the law, but an open manifestation of the fear and hatred of the government.

At this moment, I want to express without any reservations my full support to Gagik Tsarukyan, not only as a politician and senior friend, but also as a person who was tried to be publicly humiliated.

However, I am convinced that dignity cannot be destroyed, no matter how much masked hyenas try to do it.

Such methods prove only one thing: you are afraid. Are you afraid of strong people? Are you afraid of the truth? Are you afraid of your own fall?

Nikol Pashinyan, you and your “backpackers” staged this disgusting performance and spread it, thinking that you will scare the people, humiliate the opposition and make us all silent.

You made a mistake.

There will be an answer for this shameful video and this political revenge. Not with your style and your methods, but with the kind of political blows that will remind you very soon that no regime can survive forever on fear, violence and humiliation.

And finally, to you personally, Nikol Pashinyan.

You didn’t show strength today. You showed your complete cowardice and political bankruptcy. Fear of real competition, fear of one’s own future, fear of the responsibility that is inevitable.

You are already standing on the edge of the abyss into which you threw yourself.
That abyss will become the final political grave of your government.

Political scientist Suren Surenyants

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The rescue service informs that the roads in the territory of RA are passable.

According to the information received from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia and the Crisis Management Center of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs of North Ossetia, the Stepantsminda-Lars highway is open for all types of vehicles.

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Today, at 11:15 UTC (15:15 Yerevan time), about 99% of the world’s population will be in sunlight at the same time.

Levon Azizyan, director of the “Hydrometeorology and Monitoring Center” SNOC, writes about this on his social network page.

“This is a unique astronomical phenomenon that occurs every year on July 8, when, due to a combination of the position of the Sun relative to the Earth and the geographical distribution of the population, almost all of humanity is in the illuminated hemisphere,” the post reads.

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I am sure that there are few people in Armenia who believe that the activities of the current regime are conditioned by internal realities or developments.

External governance is carried out in RA, and the political processes taking place inside the country proceed within the framework of its logic.

Whatever problem is brought down from the outside, they act on it internally, from legislative changes to arrests.

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

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The preliminary investigation of the criminal proceedings initiated by the criminal group in connection with the theft of 465 million drams has been completed.

“The multi-faceted investigation carried out in the Property Crimes Investigation Department of the Main Department of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia revealed and substantiated that Kha.A. and V.G., having learned about the intention of the SP company to import diesel fuel from the Republic of Iran to the Republic of Armenia and carry out wholesale sales, with the intention of implementing a pre-developed fraud plan, presented to the management of the company as if they were persons engaged in the mining industry. have the opportunity to sell a large volume of diesel fuel in the region, and also presented the gas station and warehouse operating in Yerevan theirs.

Then, on July 10, 2025, they signed a contract for the supply of diesel fuel with the aforementioned company through the SP company owned by Kha.A., with the condition of paying the amount within 15 days.

In order to further strengthen the trust gained by the management of the mentioned company and their desire to sell a larger amount of diesel fuel and to complete their criminal intent, the members of the criminal group paid the amount of pre-purchased diesel fuel, AMD 113 million, ahead of the contract and until August 29, 2025, they received a total of AMD 465 million from the company. 1.2 million liters of diesel fuel, which were sold to various organizations and individuals. Later, with baseless reasons, the members of the criminal group avoided paying the rest of the money and fraudulently embezzled particularly large sums, a total of 465 million AMD.

During the preliminary investigation, according to the decision of the supervising prosecutor, a public criminal prosecution was initiated against the members of the criminal group, Kha.

Arrest was applied to one of them as a preventive measure, and house arrest to the other.

The criminal proceedings were sent with the indictment to the supervising prosecutor, with the request to send it to the court for confirmation and examination,” the CC said in a statement.

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The prosecutor’s office of Kotayk region, within the scope of the authority to protect state (community) interests, submitted a lawsuit to the Anti-Corruption Court on September 15, 2025, against the Abovyan community and a natural person, with demands to declare the auction of the plot of land invalid and to apply the consequences of the invalidity.

“On June 29, 2026, the anti-corruption court satisfied the claim of the prosecutor’s office of Kotayk region. The May 18, 2018 auction of the 916.6 square meter park plot provided for in Article 60 of the Land Code was invalidated by the decision. As a consequence of the invalidity of the auction, among other things, the state registration of the ownership right to the land in the name of a natural person was declared invalid.

“After the verdict enters into legal force, the land with an area of ​​916.6 square meters and a market value of about 80 million drams will be returned to the Abovyan community of Kotayk marz,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

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Iran will respond to US aggression and will not allow interference in the management of the Strait of Hormuz. This was announced by the command of the central headquarters of the Iranian Armed Forces “Khatam al-Anbia”, reports Tasnim.

“The armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran will give a decisive response to the aggression and terrorist actions of the United States and will not allow them to interfere in the affairs of the Strait of Hormuz and manage it under any circumstances,” the agency quoted the command as saying.

Earlier, the Central Command of the US Armed Forces (CENTCOM) announced a series of powerful strikes against Iran in response to Iran’s alleged attacks on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

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Ahead of the international multi-day cycling tournament Tour of Armenia to be held in September of this year, under the auspices of the RA Prime Minister, the amateur cycling campaign “Around Sevan” will be held on August 29-30, contributing to the development of the cycling tradition and healthy lifestyle culture in Armenia.

This is reported by the Ministry of Education and Culture.

Conditions for participating in the cycling race:

♦ the participant must have the ability to cycle at least 25 km non-stop,
♦ the participant must have a doctor’s permission or a health certificate that does not contain contraindications for participation in the bicycle race,
♦ the participant must be willing to participate in preparatory training in August.

Cyclists participate in the cycle race on their own bicycles, with only mechanical bicycles permitted.

The cycling campaign will be concluded with the final event, during which all participants will receive certificates. There is no prize fund.

To participate in the bike ride, you need to send the following information to the email address [email protected]:

♦ participant’s name, patronymic, surname, address, phone number (region, community, place of residence),
♦ photocopy of passport or identification card,
♦ Photocopy of doctor’s clearance or health certificate.

Applications are accepted until July 30.

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The anti-corruption court accepted the lawsuit of the General Prosecutor’s Office against “Beghlu” CJSC, State Property Management Committee, Gagik Tsarukyan, “Multi Group” Concern LLC, “Sevan National Park” SNOC (hereinafter – SNOC) to declare the contract N 111-2 of November 29, 1996 invalid.

This was reported by the General Prosecutor’s Office.

As a result, the Attorney General’s Office requests the annulment of:

♦ State registration of the right to land with an area of ​​1.21 ha and wooden house N 7 with an area of ​​60 square meters based on the contract,
♦ The real estate sale agreement signed between “Beghlu” CJSC and Gagik Tsarukyan on September 8, 2000,
♦ the January 12, 2001 agreement on amending the above-mentioned agreement,
♦ The lease agreement signed between SNOC and “Multi Group” concern LLC under the registry number N 4462 on November 25, 2025 and the state registration of the right made on November 28, 2025.

As a result, to return the land with an area of ​​0.29114 ha from the illegal possession of the “Multi Group” concern LLC to the ownership of the RA, the buildings and structures built on the land, namely: residential houses with an area of ​​425.12 square meters, the boat station with an area of ​​23.04 square meters, a fence with an area of ​​100.8 square meters.

The anti-corruption court has satisfied the request of the Prosecutor’s Office to apply a measure of securing the claim. the defendant is forbidden to perform such actions that will lead to the change of the owner of the properties mentioned in the statement of claim or to the change of their actual condition.

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The Department of Investigation and Operational Intelligence of the RA State Revenue Committee received information that the company operating a gas station at 1 Yerevan-Sevan highway 1 of Verin Ptghni community, Kotayk marz, and 10/2 Gyurjian city of Yerevan, without proper documentation, acquires fuel and sells it to consumers without providing receipts for the control cash register and reflecting these transactions in the tax records.

“The investigation and operational intelligence department of the committee has developed, undertaken and implemented complex operational-investigative measures within the framework of the functions assigned to it in the work carried out in the direction of prevention and detection of tax offenses.

Thus, the addresses of the company’s activities, the number of fuel distribution towers, the locations of the fuel storage containers, as well as the addresses of the office premises were determined in advance, and at the same time, an external observation operative-intelligence event was carried out.

According to the results of complex analyzes and studies of the data obtained in the framework of the operative-investigative measures, it was found that the company purchased and sold various types of liquid fuels worth around 1.6 billion drams without proper documents in 2023-2026. To this end, a significant part of the actual turnover of the gas station was not documented, in particular, the values ​​of the gasoline sold were not entered into the control cash registers and the cash register receipts were not printed. As a result of all this, distorted data was entered in the calculations submitted to the tax authority. As a result, the state suffered a particularly large loss of around 500 million drams.

A report on the incident was submitted to the RA Investigative Committee’s Economic Crimes and Smuggling Main Department, where criminal proceedings were initiated.

The investigation and operational-intelligence department of the RA SRC continues to take necessary measures not only in the direction of revealing committed crimes, but also in preventing them, and at the same time urges business entities to declare the actual sales turnovers,” the message says.

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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