The issue of arresting Avetik Chalabyan was raised in the European Parliament.

“HayVote” informs that Gerolf Anemans, a deputy of the “Patriots for Europe” faction of the European Parliament, addressed the European Commission with a written question as a matter of priority, in order to draw attention to democracy, the rule of law and the treatment of political opponents in Armenia.

The issue refers to the arrest of Avetik Chalabyan, the coordinator of the Hayakve national civil association, on June 24, 2026, and it is raised in the context of the visit of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to Armenia.

The MEP reminds that back in 2022, the court proceedings against Avetik Chalabyan were criticized by a number of international organizations from the point of view of preserving fundamental rights and fair trial guarantees.

In this regard, two important questions were addressed to the European Commission.

 Was the issue of Avetik Chalabyan’s recent detention discussed during Ursula von der Leyen’s visit to Yerevan?

 How does the European Commission assess this case in light of the commitments undertaken by Armenia in the fields of democracy, fundamental freedoms and rule of law within the framework of European Union-Armenia relations?

“Hayakve” national civil association emphasizes that the issues raised internationally regarding political persecution, rule of law and protection of fundamental human rights in the Republic of Armenia receive proper international evaluation and attention.

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in the aviation units of the Air Force of Azerbaijan were held training flights.

In particular, flights were carried out by JF-17C (Block III), L-39, Su-25ML and Su-25 aircraft.

During the exercise, the pilots made individual and group flights, improving the skills of interaction in the airspace, the implementation of routine combat tasks and tactical maneuvers, target detection and destruction, and making the right decisions in special situations.

At the same time, attention was paid to the accurate and safe performance of tasks in different meteorological and tactical conditions, improvement of combat capabilities of aviation equipment.

Let’s remind that JF-17C fighters Azerbaijan has acquired From Pakistan.

And on October 20, 2025, in the analysis of one of the Azerbaijani media, it was noted that taking into account the strategic relations between Pakistan-Azerbaijan-Turkey, it is possible that the Turkish air-to-air Gökdoğan and Bozdoğan missiles, which are still under evaluation, will be integrated into the fighters in the future.

168.amthe had written  that the 2020 war marked the beginning of the Turkey-Azerbaijan-Pakistan geopolitical project, which later had confirmed Prime Minister of Pakistan. However, as we have noticed, Pakistan took part in the 44-day war of 2020 based on its relations with Turkey, and only after the 44-day war, Azerbaijan-Pakistan bilateral strategic relations were established.

By the way, today to the President of RA by decree Karen Grigoryan, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to the United Arab Emirates, has been appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (residence: Abu Dhabi). But we will address the political and military-political side of this separately.

Let’s go back to the Azerbaijani military exercise and add that L-39 czech is a production aircraft, the Su-25 is a Russian attack aircraft, and the Su-25ML is its upgraded version.

Earlier we wrote, that Azerbaijan is modernizing the Su-25s in its arsenal with the help of leading Turkish defense companies. Moreover, we have informed, that the Azerbaijani attackers were armed with Turkish SOM ŞAHİN cruise missiles, the flight range of which is more than 250 km.

Are the Su-25s in the arsenal of the RA army modernized? The answer is in the footage related to the May 28 military parade.

In this context, let us remind that on August 24, 2020, the Ministry of Defense to report was that a contract for the modernization and repair of the Su-25 was signed between the RA Defense Ministry and the United Aircraft Construction Company of Russia.

We have repeatedly tried to get information about this contract and the modernization of Su-25s from the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, but they refused, referring to the legal regulations on state and military secrets.

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Weeks ago, Nikol Pashinyan, in order to justify his next unrestrained speech, said that he is a “passionate orator”.

I think many people mocked and joked about this topic, focusing on the word “passionate”, behind which Pashinyan’s confession was forgotten. he is really an orator, a good orator, who seized power in 2018 with his own words, and now one of the three main pillars that hold it is his word (I will not touch on the other two – repression and foreign support – A.A.).

Yes, Nicol is an orator, but in the ordinary, classical sense, he is of the most dangerous, most destructive school of orators; he is a sophist.

In our everyday life, we use the word, usually with a serious face, to describe people who iron their heads or who airlift.

In fact, it is not an innocent trait of self-righteous people. History knows many cases when sophists destroyed states, and Armenia is not the only one.

The leitmotif of my article is not a review or a theoretical analysis. I think the opposition is still losing to Pashinyan because it does not comprehensively analyze and systematically approach this issue. In short, the struggle of the opposition should be more “knowledge-based”, because in fact Nikol is a phenomenon that has its own methodology.

Let’s try to give the main descriptions using historical facts.

In ancient Greece, the conflict between Athens and Sparta ended with Sparta’s victory because of the sophists who held power in Athens. It was they who began to create a climate in Athens, and one of them, Alcibiades, who was the ruler and most influential orator, persuaded the city to send an unprecedentedly large fleet to Sicily, which ended in disaster for Athens.

The ancient Greeks knew well the power of speech, which became more important in the case of the Athenian polis democracy, the mechanism of which, if simplified, was the following: who would convince whom and how.

It was here that his perverted and manipulative type, sophistry, was mixed into sound and traditional rhetoric. If until then language and speech served to describe reality, then the sophists began to improve, using speech to distort reality. Sophists have perfected convincingly proving what is not true (Nicole, listen to AA).

As knowledge no longer prevailed, truth came under attack. Sophists turned political debates into who-who-disgusted-who-who-disgusted-principles, rather than the search for truth.

The sophists said that it was not important to master the subject or to be knowledgeable about the matter. It’s important to be able to talk about the topic (Nicole’s ear calls again).

Another important observation. if in science the facts are undeniable and unchanging phenomena, then in sophistic rhetoric any fact is deniable, so it is no longer a fact (I imagine how Nicole’s ears are responding now, – AA).

This is the “deadly weapon” of the sophists, ISKANDER. The blatant denial of facts violates the stability and balance of reality, destroys the environment surrounding people.

Another secret trick of sophists is to emphasize “values” and emotions in speech. And this is logical. denying the facts, they destroy the reality, which they fill with their emotions (as Pashinyan would say, with “passions”, A.A.).

Unlike facts, “values” and emotions are not immutable characteristics of reality, they do not contain information about the world, but express our subjective attitude towards the world…

However…

After the destruction of facts, the sophists’ “values” and emotions become guiding, determining, and creating the illusion of stability.

It is difficult to pretend to describe the problem in more detail with one article, that is from a prison cell, so in the next publications I will try to address the question (very important, – AA) of how the ancient Greeks fought against the tricks of corrosive sophists.

To be continued…

ARMEN ASHOTIAN

Vice President of RPA

“Vardashen” Prison

04.07.2026

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Today, Nikol Pashinyan visited the Russian Federation, specifically Yekaterinburg, where he participated in the 16th International Industrial Exhibition “Innoprom”. This visit is particularly noteworthy in that it is Nikol Pashinyan’s first trip to the Russian Federation after the elections in Armenia.

It is taking place against the background of apparent coldness in bilateral relations and open political criticism from Moscow. The complexity of the situation is also evidenced by the fact that the Kremlin has not yet officially congratulated Pashinyan on his victory in the elections, which is an indication of a clear political stance and dissatisfaction.

At the same time, the visit takes place in the context of indirect economic restrictions applied to Armenia, which adds additional tension to the bilateral agenda. Perhaps, Pashinyan’s participation in the “Innoprom” industrial exhibition is an attempt to use the economic platform to smooth political sharp corners and demonstrate the will to unbreak economic ties with Russia, even when the political dialogue is in crisis. His call to Mishustin the other day before this visit was a similar experience, during which a number of issues on the bilateral agenda were discussed. This is also a unique circumstance in Armenian-Russian relations, because Pashinyan usually communicates with the Russian president, but due to some reasons, Pashinyan had to contact Mishustin.

However, a bilateral meeting between Mishustin and Pashinyan took place within the framework of the “Innoprom” exhibition. At the beginning of the meeting, Mishustin emphasized that this is Pashinyan’s first foreign visit after the elections, and Russia is looking forward to the development of relations with the new government formed after the elections. “Moscow expects further development of Russian-Armenian relations in the spirit of friendship, neighborliness, mutual respect and consideration of each other’s interests,” Mishustin said. He also emphasized that it is important that the Armenian government continues to create a comfortable environment for Russian investors. According to him, Moscow expects that their rights and legal interests will be respected.

For his part, Pashinyan said that both before and after the elections, they are committed to the further development of relations with Russia. “And, of course, we are interested in our participation in the EAEU and ensuring that the mechanisms provided for in the EAEU agreement work as intended. I think that this is in the interests of the further development of EAEU,” said Pashinyan. According to him, some problematic points have appeared recently, and I hope that we will discuss and solve them.

He emphasized that Armenia is constructively committed to discussing and clarifying all issues and nuances. “I hope that as a result of today’s negotiations, we will be able to solve specific issues,” he expressed confidence.

It is noteworthy that, despite the bilateral assurances, Mishustin’s attitude and the tone of his statements at the meeting with Pashinyan were quite restrained, if not to say, markedly official. The Russian side avoided warm wording, emphasis on traditional alliance closeness, or friendly personal remarks usually characteristic of such high-level meetings. Instead, Mishustin’s speech was dominated by dry diplomatic statements and direct references to the protection of the interests of Russian capital, which proves once again that Moscow now prefers to talk to Yerevan not from an emotional or “fraternal” but from a strictly pragmatic position.

This pronounced coldness and official dryness were especially noticeable against the background of another meeting of the Russian Prime Minister on the same day. In the conversation with his colleague from Belarus, Mishustin had a completely different attitude. he did not hide his affection, emphasized how happy he was to welcome the Belarusian Prime Minister and his “friends” in Yekaterinburg, and personally conveyed wishes to the President of Belarus on behalf of himself and Vladimir Putin, and then heartily congratulated him on the Independence Day of Belarus. The allied atmosphere was completely absent from the Armenian-Russian negotiation table.

This difference in communication style and emphasis is extremely telling. Of course, relations between Moscow and Minsk are unique in nature, but the strategic alliance between Armenia and Russia has not been canceled on paper. Simply, this meeting proved once again that the former “spirit” of those relations no longer exists. Moscow does not speak to Yerevan with traditional warmth. And this visit of Pashinyan, as a matter of fact, marked the beginning of a new, highly pragmatic, cold and clarification phase of mutual demands in Armenian-Russian relations.

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“Aliyev’s offer to RA citizens and Pashinyan’s answer: “the question of giving a legal assessment of the “genocide” against Azerbaijanis is more than relevant” article: we are published on July 4, where we raised a number of alarms.

A day after that, the Baku propaganda machine remembered Manvel Grigoryan, noting that although the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan is over, the peace process is being pushed forward, there are initialed and signed Washington documents, but the First War and its consequences do not give rest, especially when, according to Baku, they have 4,000 missing persons.

“Mass graves of both civilians and prisoners of war are regularly found in the “liberated” areas. In February 2021, a mass grave with the remains of seven people was found in the village of Dashalt (Under the Stone: – M.P.), and the following year in Edillu (Ukhtadzor, the name of General Manvel Grigoryan is also associated with this defense.- M.P.).

Hikmet Hajiyev, the assistant to the president of Azerbaijan, said at the time that it contained the bodies of Azerbaijani servicemen, who, supposedly, “were executed by the Armenian separatist forces during the war of the 1990s” (quotes: M.P.).

In the same year, a mass grave in the village of Sarjal (Akna section: – MP). According to the authorities, there were remains of people killed and buried in 1992. And this is not the complete list,” minval.az wrote, and it is in this context that the Azerbaijani propaganda machine mentions the name of Manvel Grigoryan, claiming that he “kept Azerbaijani captives in his house as a slave”, one of whom, of course, was released.

“But the most important thing is that Armenia still exists. The very Armenia, where Azerbaijani prisoners and hostages were also kept, and where access to the relevant Azerbaijani agencies was closed, for obvious reasons,” claims a country that is currently holding Armenian prisoners and hostages, including the former military-political leadership of Artsakh, or this is a country where Armenian prisoners were killed in captivity long ago from the First War, who, by the way, were kidnapped, etc.

It is another matter that the current authorities of Armenia do not want to speak about this, but this does not “darken” Aliyev’s memory, nor does the struggle against Armenia go aside. Today, more than ever, Baku must divert the attention of the international community from its war crimes, justify the expulsion of the Red Cross from Baku.

The problem is that today they can remember Manvel Grigoryan, who is not alive, and tomorrow they can remember another freedom fighter and commander who is alive.

By the way, one of the “victims” sent to the court during the “trial” in Baku, named Rauf Gafarov, is similar was a testimony gave Against former NKR Defense Minister Samvel Babayan.

In particular, he claimed that “in April 1994, in Varanda, Fizuli region, he was captured and was returned only on May 10, 1996, and during that time, allegedly, he and about 25 Azerbaijanis were forcibly involved in the construction of Samvel Babayan’s house.”

Whether there will be a return to Samvel Babayan in this regard, time will tell, but one thing is clear: they will remember the Armenian freedom fighters and commanders who are on the Azeri target on different occasions and try to update their “file” or use what they already have in order to solve some internal and external problems.

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A few days ago, the press wrote that the heads of Yerevan’s administrative districts are expected to change, and all those district heads who did not achieve results in their communities due to the struggle for CP, will say goodbye to their positions.

168.amAccording to the information, Romik Mkhitaryan, a member of the Communist Party of Ukraine, who became the district head of the Malatia-Sebastia administrative district, Aram Zaven Sargsyan, who became the district head with the quota of the “Republic” party, will also leave his post.

There are panicky moods in the staff of the administrative region. there are persistent rumors that the next leader of Malatia-Sebastia will be the former district head of the same district Sasha Katvalyan, whose tenure as the head of the community is still remembered with horror by the employees.

Sasha Katvalyan is from Tigran Avinyan’s entourage, he also has close relations with Defense Minister Suren Papikyan. He from work released 2022 On October 24, after a fatal Facebook post for him, however, he did not stay idle. He was first appointed Tigran Avinyan’s adviser, then got fired 2023 in November, then about 2 months later, in 2024. in January was appointed In the position of director of “YEREVAN WASTE AND SANITARY CLEANING” institution.

Employees of Malatia-Sebastia remember very well what happened in 2022. after March 2, when Sasha Katvalyan was appointed as the head of the Malatia-Sebastia community. Within about a month he was such personnel massacre implemented in the staff that, according to the ancient residents, they had never seen or heard anything like this.

Later, former employees of the district administration 168.amThey told them only one sentence was said during dismissal: we cannot work together.

According to them, Sasha Katvalyan has filled the district administration with his own people, including those who are at the center of the scandal.

Ancient inhabitants of the administrative region mentioned They have worked with 20 different district heads: luminary Vahan Zatikyan, Davit Ohanyan, Artak Aleksanyan, Davit Karapetyan, but they have not seen such inhuman leadership as Sasha Katvalyan and his staff.

And now, in fact, the nightmare is returning. Sasha Katvalyan will be reappointed as the head of the Malatia-Sebastia Administrative Region.

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