RA Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Zhanna Andreasyan paid another visit to the Armenian Genocide Memorial today. Zhanna Andreasyan was accompanied by Hasmik Hakobyan, the general secretary of KGSMS.

The minister toured the area with the construction company implementing the overhaul works and the architects of the author group of the Genocide Memorial project, and was interested in the progress of the works.

The minister of KGSMS once again emphasized 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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The new supreme leader of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei, was injured, but he is feeling well. This was announced by the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic, Esmail Baghai.

“He is injured, but he feels good. I don’t know when he will make his first speech. Three or four people claimed the position of the new supreme leader, but the majority of the Council of Experts chose him,” Baghai said in an interview with the Italian newspaper “Corriere della Sera”.

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During his propaganda, Molagar likes to use the term “independence” in the sense that by sacrificing Sarakh, he brought independence to Armenia by demarcating 15 kilometers of borders, while others want to turn Armenia into a peripheral province.

The concept of “independence” should be clarified so that Molgar’s primitive ideas about the world do not spread to the public.

There is a “cadastre” of states, it is the United Nations, where a “cadastre certificate” of being a state subject is legally recognized and a state is given, along with the corresponding rights and responsibilities.

And to what extent this or that state is really independent, or rather independent, it is already determined by the human, economic, military, and most importantly, the volitional potential of the given state. To talk about real independence means to inventory the sum result of those standards.

What is happening around Iran now? Iran defends its independence at the cost of sacrifices, that is, it fights for its real independence. If Iran survives, it will become the most independent, that is, the state with the highest degree of sovereignty.

What does Molagar do? The maniac, who likes to fight for independence, went to Europe, makes a speech that he wants to become a vassal of the lowest degree, is ready to give up the last traces of sovereignty, discredits the church, his political opponents, neighbors, in order to stay in power thanks to foreign intervention, thereby nullifying the last traces of our sovereignty (in his word, independence).

Political scientist Stepan Danielyan

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In the department of cybercrimes and high-tech crimes of the main department of investigation of particularly important cases of the RA Investigative Committee, the preliminary investigation of the criminal proceedings initiated by the transnational criminal organization in connection with the cases of particularly large-scale computer theft is being carried out.

In the course of the preliminary investigation of the criminal proceedings, apparently factual data was obtained that a group of RA and foreign citizens created a stable and united criminal organization from December 2023 and managed it until October 12, 2024. clear and well-thought-out mechanisms of committing crimes, awareness of people already affected by investment frauds tricks to influence them psychologically, provide them with computers and other technical means and software necessary for the commission of crimes, in order to lure a large number of victims, they carried out advertisements on social networks and used a website with false content to strengthen trust, rented comfortable office spaces, as well as recruited and involved many members of the organization in different periods and terms.

During the preliminary investigation, the circumstances of embezzlement of at least 16 million 94 thousand 945 AMD by the criminal organization were substantiated.

Participant of a criminal organization, wanted RP was detained.

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

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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has stated that thanks to the peace with Azerbaijan, Armenia can become a transit country for the first time in its independent history, although it is not yet such a country.

“Thanks to that, we will be able to establish a direct connection between the main part of Azerbaijan and our exclave, the Autonomous Republic of Nakhichevan,” Aliyev said.

According to him, after the establishment of peace with Armenia, “we are closely working towards the expansion of the “Middle Corridor”, which also passes through the territory of Armenia.”

Aliyev noted that the demand for cargo transportation through the territory of Azerbaijan is growing. He emphasized that the disruption of transport connections as a result of conflicts creates an extremely difficult situation for most of the international community.

According to the leader of Azerbaijan, Baku and Yerevan achieved peace not only on paper. “the borders are calm, trade ties are established” and “long-term peace is sealed for centuries”.

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The dismissal of the Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Edita Gzoyan, was due to her initiative during the visit of the US Vice President JD Vance to Armenia.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan confirmed that the release application was written under his direct instruction, describing the actions of the museum director as a provocative and contrary to the state’s foreign policy.

During the briefing held in the government on March 12, the Prime Minister detailed that it refers to the visit of the US Vice President to the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial on February 10. Accompanying the distinguished guest Edita Gzoyan presented him with a book on the Artsakh problem, as well as presented the khachkars perpetuating the memory of the victims of the pogroms in Sumgait, Gandzak and Baku at the end of the last century and the stories of the buried freedom fighters, connecting them with the Armenian Genocide.

By: Nikol Pashinyanin the conditions when the head of the country declares the absence of the Karabakh movement, it is not permissible to present a book to a foreign official on the Artsakh issue.

The head of the government emphasized that the exclusive authority to conduct foreign policy in Armenia belongs to the government, and those government officials whose actions will contradict the official direction will be immediately dismissed from their positions.

Before this announcement by the Prime Minister, the news of Gzoyan’s dismissal was circulated without official clarification from both the museum-institute and the Ministry of Education and Culture.

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At the session of the Government of the Republic of Armenia on March 12, the decision to provide additional remuneration to the employees based on the results of the evaluation of the performance of the state bodies was unanimously adopted, the main purpose of which is to promote the quality and efficiency of the public service.

Deputy Prime Minister reporting the issue Tigran Khachatryan reminded that this pilot program aimed at the modernization of the state administration system was approved last year. The initiative is designed to materially encourage employees who have shown high results, thereby contributing to the maintenance of competitive and professional personnel in the system, the attraction of new specialists and the more effective management of state resources.

According to the data of the Deputy Prime Minister, 3.6 billion drams of additional remuneration fund was already allocated to 15 administrative bodies for the results of the first half of 2025 for the works performed in 57 different directions. Now, summarizing the data of the second half of the same year, a figure close to the maximum possible was recorded. Based on these results, another 4.6 billion drams will be provided for the additional remuneration of employees of state bodies.

Tigran Khachatryan specially emphasized that at this stage it will also be practically checked how the officials who were encouraged in the previous semester fulfilled the mandatory requirement of making financial investments in their education. It is planned that the successful course and analysis of the pilot program will allow to submit a new legislative package to the National Assembly already this year, which will move these public service payment mechanisms to a long-term and legally regulated dimension.

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The RA government continues administrative territorial reforms. according to the new decision of the executive, nine communities are united in three regions, as a result of which the total number of local self-government units in the republic will be reduced to 64.

Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures at the March 12 meeting Davit Khudatyan presented a new project, by which it is planned to form three enlarged administrative units. In particular, Stepanavan community will be created in Lori region, including Stepanavan, Gyulagarak and Lori Berd (20 settlements in total).

In Syunik, the enlarged Goris community will be formed by uniting Goris, Tatev and Tegh (total: 28 settlements), and in Vayots Dzor, as a result of the merger of Yeghegnadzor, Areni and Yeghegis, the new Yeghegnadzor community will emerge (total: 32 settlements). Reacting to this decision, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan emphasized that the enlargement process gives exclusively positive results, significantly and several times increasing the subsidy possibilities of local bodies and improving the socio-economic condition of settlements.

The head of the government also emphasized the development of new mechanisms for increasing the efficiency of the work of community authorities and active and simple communication with the population about the process.

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Harutyun Agha-Sargsyan, president of the Pan-Armenian Council for the Protection of the Armenian Church, made a statement regarding Nikol Pashinyan’s remarks against the Armenian Church in the European Parliament.

The statement says:

“From the podium of the European Parliament, Nikol Pashinyan carried out an open and brazen attack against the strongest pillar of Armenian statehood, the Armenian Apostolic Holy Church. Instead of protecting the interests of the country, he used that high pulpit for the insidious purpose of defiling national sanctities and degrading the Church in the eyes of the enemy.

This was not just another political slip or ignorance. this was a direct, deliberate and treacherous blow to the two-thousand-year-old spiritual backbone of the Armenian people. When the appointed head of the country declares his own Church to foreigners as a nest of conspiracies and a security threat, he ceases to be just an opponent. he goes directly to the service in the camp of those who annihilated the Armenian identity.

The Armenian Church is not a den of agents, as the adventurers who sold their souls to foreigners try to represent. The Armenian Church is the guarantor of the existence of the Armenian people, its memory, blood and non-negotiable sanctuary. Any person who throws mud on that sanctity in international courts commits the gravest state and national crime, undermining the spiritual security and protection of the entire nation.

This shameful campaign should be considered in one single, destructive chain. when the statehood and sovereignty of Armenia are consistently destroyed, the turn has come to the last citadel of the people’s resistance, the Church. A program of national dismantling is imposed on our people with the false and disgusting packaging of “peace” and “democracy”. This attack against the Armenian Church is not an internal political dispute, this is a nationalistic war against the Armenian species.

We strongly condemn and consider unacceptable this anti-church, anti-national behavior of Nikol Pashinyan. Selling national sanctuaries in order to find external sponsors for attacks on the Church is a pathetic and shameful move.

Let everyone clearly record and finally understand that the Armenian Church is not a political toy of the rulers of the day and will never become their sacrificial lamb. Whoever dares to lay a dirty hand on the Mother Church will receive the blow of the righteous anger of the Armenian people and the merciless judgment of history.

Pashinyan’s statements against the Armenian Church in the European Parliament are just the peak of national shame.

This is not just a fight between the clergy and the laity. this is a sacred struggle for our existence, Armenian gene and dignity. And in this struggle, conciliation and silence are tantamount to suicide.

We will not be silent. We will not allow it.”

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There should be no reference to the Declaration of Independence in the new Constitution, because the Declaration of Independence is built on the logic of conflict.

RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced this today, March 12, during a briefing with journalists in the government building.

“We cannot rely on the logic of conflict and want to build an independent state. I will not go into too much detail about what I mean, I have expressed my position in detail in my messages dedicated to the day of the declaration of independence,” he said.