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.

The head of the Armenian government assures that there will be no food security problem in our country against the background of military operations in neighboring Iran and restrictions on food exports as a result.

In a briefing with journalists after the government session held on March 12 Nikol Pashinyan emphasized that the bans applied by Tehran are not a reason for serious concern. The head of the executive reminded that Armenia itself is a state that exports agricultural products and supplies foreign markets with tens of thousands of tons of food. Therefore, according to the Prime Minister, there is no need to worry in this direction.

Referring to the risks of possible inflation caused by the war situation in the neighboring country, the head of the government noted that the relevant bodies are monitoring the market on a daily basis, and appropriate preventive steps will be taken if necessary.

It should be reminded that the Iranian government imposed restrictions on the export of food after the military operations started by the USA and Israel on February 28, in response to which Tehran attacks Israel and the American military bases located in the Persian Gulf.

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In 2026 On March 11, the user xanabat muhavizə registered on the TikTok social network published another video from the Khnapat village of the Askerani region of the Republic of Artsakh, temporarily occupied by Azerbaijan. This was written by Artsakh cultural heritage ombudsman, vice president of “Azkayin” historical and cultural NGO Hovik Avanesov.

“It is clear from the video that under the pretext of “construction works” the 12th century khachkar under the fir tree in the village was destroyed.

This fact is another evidence of the systematic policy by which Azerbaijan is consistently eliminating the Armenian cultural heritage of Artsakh. It is even more worrying that the Azerbaijani state propaganda machine is trying to present the monuments of Artsakh from the same period as “alhvanic” heritage on the one hand, and on the other hand, these same monuments are being deliberately destroyed. This controversial but well-aimed policy shows that the “attribution” and physical destruction of historical heritage are carried out in parallel, in a coordinated manner at the state level.

It is also noteworthy that not only the propaganda structures are involved in that process, but also the armed forces of Azerbaijan and other power units, which makes the destruction of cultural heritage a part of state policy. Dozens of such cases were recorded both in Artsakh and Nakhichevan, where the systematic removal of Armenian monuments was carried out in previous decades.

In 2026 On February 2, the “Geghard” scientific-analytical foundation alerted that the Church of the Virgin Mary of Vaghuhas village of Martakert region was targeted by Azerbaijani vandalism. According to the published information, the Azerbaijanis broke at least one of the khachkars installed in the church yard and tore out the icons of the church.

It is important to emphasize that the cultural values ​​located in the territory of Artsakh are not only Armenian, but also a heritage of universal significance. Their destruction is aimed not only at the falsification of history, but also at the elimination of complete cultural memory.

At the same time, it becomes obvious that the Turkish-Azerbaijani tandem’s way of destroying and usurping the Armenian cultural heritage is not limited only to Artsakh or Nakhichevan. A similar methodology is also used in various regions of the Middle East, where the policies implemented towards historical and religious monuments resemble the same handwriting. This proves that Turkey and Azerbaijan act not only as states that carry out cultural genocide, but also as exporters of this political methodology.

In this context, it is important to emphasize that such actions cannot be considered only as internal cultural policy of individual states. They relate to international legal norms and obligations related to the protection of universal cultural heritage, which are binding on all states. Therefore, the targeted destruction of historical and cultural values, particularly Armenian khachkars, goes beyond the scope of regional conflicts and enters the sphere of protection of international law and world cultural heritage.

Targeting khachkars is prohibited by international laws and is considered a serious crime against all humanity, because “The art of Armenian khachkars. The symbolism and craftsmanship of khachkars” since 2010 has been included by UNESCO since 2003. accepted in the “List of Intangible Cultural Heritage” and is considered universal value. This means that khachkar art has an exceptional comprehensive universal value and additional international protection.

Khachkar culture also has additional protection during and after the war. In particular, according to the 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflicts. additional to the convention, 1999 According to the principles of the second protocol adopted, the entire Khachkar culture has enhanced protection, and any harm done to it is, according to Article 15 point a of the protocol, a “serious violation” that can be prosecuted as a war crime in international courts. This is documented by the 10th article of the mentioned protocol on the enhanced protection of cultural values, according to which the cultural heritage of the greatest importance for humanity should be under enhanced protection, and UNESCO, in fact, since 2010, has considered the entire Khachkar culture as such. According to Article 12 of the protocol, in the occupied territories, the state party to the protocol, namely Azerbaijan, must ensure the inviolability of cultural values ​​under enhanced protection, refraining from making such values ​​the object of attack or reprisals.

Many such facts show that the actions of the Azerbaijani authorities can be considered as a manifestation of one of the biggest cultural genocides of the 21st century, the purpose of which is to eliminate the historical and material evidence of the Armenian presence in the region,” he wrote.

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