Public prosecutor Hayk Avetyan, who was politicized by “Imnemnimi”, “Ceausescu”, “Avtobus”, Hrant Bagratyan, Edgar Ghazaryan, Davit Hambardzumyan and many other political cases, supporter of KP, actually wanted to become a judge.

General Prosecutor Anna Vardapetyan, who claimed that the General Prosecutor’s Office is an apolitical institution, does not see that her subordinate prosecutors are openly highly politicized, or if they openly support the CP against political opponents, it is not a problem.

Hayk Avetyan, in fact, had so much free time that he was following fake videos on various Facebook pages and expressing his attitude.

 

But, in fact, the politicized prosecutor of the “non-politicized” structure, on whose fragile shoulders the burden of becoming a public prosecutor in the vast majority of political trials was placed, decided to jump from the Prosecutor’s Office and applied to participate in the written qualification exam held in a special order to fill the criminal specialization section of the list of judges.

The super-smart, irreplaceable prosecutor, however, failed the qualifying exam, scoring only 59.5 out of 80 passing points.: About that 168.amwas informed Judiciary from the official website.

To be fair, none of the 32 judge contenders scored a passing 80 points.

But that is not the important thing. He is human and may want to change the system. The important and remarkable thing is that Anna Vardapetyan actually trusted to such an extent someone whose intention was to leave the system.

The most important thing is that a person with the psychology of an accuser and a clear and open political orientation will not become a judge and will not harm people’s destinies.

It is interesting that Nerses Zeynalyan, advisor to the Minister of Justice, who at one time, as an authorized person of the minister, brought disciplinary proceedings to the Supreme Judicial Council (HCC) against judges and defended them, also wanted to become a judge.

Now he wanted to become a judge, but, alas, he did not succeed.

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June 29 “Forgotten June 29. Why does the government that increased the number of missing persons not remember whether the Armenian side is “taking advantage” of Armen Abazyan’s agreement with Baku? in the article We reminded of the meetings of the state commissions dealing with the issues of missing persons of Armenia and Azerbaijan and their representatives during 2025, and that in June 2025, at that time, the director of the NSS, Armen Abazyan, informed that “We have a preliminary agreement that we will jointly carry out search operations.” 

And on June 30?n: Deputy Head of State Security Service of Azerbaijan Sharafat Hasanov reported that jointly with the International Commission on Missing Persons issue a unified information system for registration of missing persons – IDMS.

And the most remarkable thing is that IDMS servers will be located on the territory of Azerbaijan.

And in this context, Hasanov stated that both Azerbaijani and RA citizens can provide confidential information about missing persons and possible places of their burial.

We have sent a written request to the RA National Security Service to specifically find out whether the arrangements of the former director of the National Security Service of the National Security Service Armen Abazyan have been moved to the practical stage, or whether the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia was offered to create a joint database on missing persons, if yes, why was it left out of the process in this case, and whether RA citizens will transfer relevant confidential information to Baku through the National Security Service, how will this risky process be controlled, etc.

As soon as we receive a reply from the National Security Service directly subordinated to Nikol Pashinyan, we will present it. And before that, we tried to hear opinions about this from different perspectives in order to understand the level of risk for Armenia.

Information security expert Samvel Martirosyan 168.amin a conversation with

“It is a unified system where there is as much data as possible on missing persons. It also includes DNA data, its processing, storage. I don’t know many details in this case, but I assume that this is the reason for locating the servers in the territory of Azerbaijan. I think that if Armenia implements this system, they will demand that the IDMS servers be placed in Armenia, because there we are dealing with the processing of biological data, which is prohibited in many countries to be taken out of the country. I mean, I don’t see any risks here for us.”

There may be no purely technical risks, but the proposal addressed to RA citizens may create risky situations, from the “sale” of confidential information (if this will not be done through the National Security Service, although there may be other problems here) to the collection of information on participants in wars, especially when Baku gives specific names and remembers specific “war crimes” in the context of finding out the fate of missing persons.

Moreover, during the “trial” in Baku, the names of some of their heroes, even considered missing by Azerbaijan, were given, as well as those responsible for their fate on the Armenian side.

In particular, in the context of the “Khojalu incidents”, the missing national hero of Azerbaijan is often remembered in Baku Natig Gasimov and claims that he was “killed by Vitaly Balasanyan”. And the Gasimov family is in the center of Aliyev’s constant attention, which, of course, is also done for propaganda purposes. This is the first.

Second, in December 2024, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Azerbaijan to the relevant authorities of Armenia invited to cooperate in the criminal case against the former military and political leaders of Artsakh under detention in Baku and not only.

“Guided by serious grounds, according to which Most of the persons considered as suspects or witnesses in the episodes discussed during the investigation are now in the territory of the Republic of Armenia, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Azerbaijan RA invites the relevant authorities to cooperate.” it is mentioned in the statement of the Azerbaijani department about 2 years ago.

RA General Prosecutor’s Office in March 2025 168.amto had reported that they did not receive an official offer of cooperation from the Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan.

Gegham Manukyan, a member of the National Assembly “Armenia” bloc, 168.amIn a conversation with the Deputy Head of the State Security Service of Azerbaijan, Sharafat Hasanov, he sees risks and dangers in the footnote of the statement, not considering the problem in a purely technical field.

“There are several disturbing, if not threatening, provisions in this statement.

First, it is unknown what the Armenian side has to do with Azerbaijan’s initiative, and whether the RA NSS participated in this process or not.

Secondly, the collection of such anonymous data carries the risk that the data of our compatriots who participated in military operations in one way or another will be identified and in the hands of Azerbaijan. Thirdly, it is highly unacceptable in terms of the national security of our country that Azerbaijan initiates the collection of anonymous information by citizens of Armenia, which can be used against Armenia at any time,” he says.

And here the question arises: does Armenia, following the example of Azerbaijan, have a plan to have an Armenian IDMS system, when the relevant servers will be placed in Armenia, as information security specialist Samvel Martirosyan spoke about, and will the process of transferring information about missing persons be mirrored and proportional.

For example, Azerbaijan was reminded yesterday that since the tripartite announcement of November 9, 2020, Azerbaijan has handed over the bodies and relics of more than 2,000 Armenian soldiers found on the battlefield to the Armenian side. This perhaps mostly refers to the 44-day war and perhaps the aftermath. But in the 44-day war, the Armenian side officially has about 190 missing, and about 800 from the first war, etc.

In fact, there is no information about whether the remains of any person considered missing from the first war have been found, but since last year, at least on the Azerbaijani side, such relics of their volunteers or soldiers have been found.

Anyway, let’s wait for the National Security Service to respond to our questions, the letter, and the development of events.

But here, in any case, it is necessary to remind that the relatives of the missing freedom fighters of the “Arabo” detachment in 2008 had reported that the Azerbaijani side circulated a video on the Internet, where their sons were depicted, they were all killed.

Note that in 1992 on this very day, June 29, the fighters of the “Arabo”, “Artsiv 13”, “Zeytun”, “Jraberd”, “Armavir” detachments participating in the combat operations of Leninavan, Haykajur (Hasan-Ghaya) villages of the Martakert region of the NKR remained under siege, and the fate of 79 freedom fighters is still unknown.

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The guest of the “Zara has a question” program of 168 TV is public speaker, analyst Harut Uloyan.

Below are some theses expressed by Harut Uloyan during the interview․

• By and large, nothing should be expected from the CC. naturally, the Constitutional Court will ultimately reject the results recorded by the CEC. There, the issue of PAP votes will remain in 3 precincts, but, as I understand, the CC does not have the authority to make a decision regarding those specific precincts. So, they will bypass that question and only record the instruction sent down from above.

• Actually, it is not about a few hundred votes. it’s about a few 1000 votes, if not about tens and hundreds-thousands of votes, because Pashinyan himself states that 70% of the opposition’s votes are falsified votes, right?

• Pashinyan has crossed all boundaries long ago: winner-non-winner, loser-non-loser. he announces what is beneficial to him at that moment. He crossed all the boundaries of that cynicism and red lines. now, in a cynical way, whatever you want, he declares. During the question-and-answer session with the government, he already proudly states that he made the statement, “Artsakh is Armenia, and that’s it,” because if he hadn’t, we wouldn’t be in such a wonderful place now. A person stands up, makes a cynical “crap” on that topic.

• If you declare that the most important issue is not to remove Pashinyan, but who will come to power after Pashinyan, you equate the agenda of removing Pashinyan to zero.

• The sentiments of the street struggle should have been generated from the pre-election period. they should talk to the people about what they will do in case of falsification, what they will do during this process. Basically, the main layers of the society question the legitimacy, but no one does anything to mature, generate, in this case, take to the streets those moods of the people. If it is not done now, then I can’t imagine.

• The opposition lost that moment. If there is such a possibility, it seems to me that it will be more within the framework of some geopolitical context, or some social one, in this case, I don’t know where the relations with Russia will go, and I think the most likely scenario is that Russia will start applying some kind of pressure or some kind of sanctions against Armenia. But as a result of Pashinyan’s skillful manipulation, it can be used in some domestic formulations.

• I am sure that the issue of removing the Russian military base will be raised, especially in the context of Armenian-Turkish relations, and, in my impression, if the border has not been opened, the primary issue is, of course, that condition or precondition.

• Pashinyan, I don’t know why, has turned “it” into some kind of anti-patriotic tool, he is trying to solve issues that don’t exist at all through Ararat. In other words, he brought some question out of thin air and is trying to aggravate the situation under it. So let them build a wall along the Armenia-Turkey border so that we don’t see the sight of Mount Ararat.

• I understand that there may be problems with Russia, that Armenia may be upset by Russia’s positions on some issues, etc., but it is incomprehensible to me that our people are normal to the fact that in all these processes, Armenia has, in fact, become a geopolitical tool. In other words, we are not trying to solve these issues with Russia, but, to put it bluntly, “we are bringing a boy”. To the West, against Russia.

Details in the video.

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In the “Pressing” program Satik Seyranyan the guest citysome analyst Hakob Badalyan is.

The main theses of the interview are below.

• There were many things in this election process that had not happened before, including, on the night of the election, during the process of counting the votes, it was announced that the KP had won (Nikol Pashinyan announced at midnight from the KP office that they had won, when only 10 percent of the votes had been counted, ed.). Foreign countries, especially Turkey, where there is a sense of statism, should have followed the formality and not congratulated Ruben Rubinyan for something that does not exist. Ruben Rubinyan is only a candidate for the Speaker of the National Assembly, not the President. We can say that his candidacy is at least acceptable. 

To remind, Ruben Rubinyan was warmly congratulated by his colleague in the bilateral commission, special envoy of Turkey, Serdar Kılıç, one or two hours after announcing Ruben Rubinyan as a candidate for the president of the next convocation of the National Assembly.

Also, let’s remind, years ago, during the election of Ruben Rubinyan as the vice president of the National Assembly, the story of his “scientific studies” in Istanbul became the subject of wide discussion. At that time, Rubinyan admitted that he had been conducting studies in Turkey for several months within the framework of the Hrant Dink Foundation program. Later, information was published in the media that he first studied at YSU, then in London and Poland, and before the 2018 color revolution, in 2017-2018, he did some research at the “Istanbul Politics Center” attached to Sabanj University within the framework of the “Exchange of experience between Armenia and Turkey” project of the “Hrant Dink” Foundation.

The topic of his studies is noteworthy: the influence of non-governmental organizations on the processes of democratization in Turkey. According to media publications, the university itself is even more remarkable. Its founder is Turkish businessman, nationalist Haji Omer, who in 1934 On the advice of Kemal Ataturk, he chose the surname Sabanji and with the help of the same Ataturk seized the personal and church property of the Armenians of Adana, with a total value of 100 billion dollars.

The university was founded by Sabanji’s children, and its main purpose was propaganda work with foreign students to convert them into agents of Turkish influence. According to the mass media, there are many employees of the special services of Turkey among the professors of the university.

• The election of Ruben Rubinyan as the Speaker of the National Assembly is largely due to the fact that he is related to the process called the Armenian-Turkish settlement. This choice is essentially determined by the Turkey factor:

• Alen Simonyan, known for his anti-Russian statements, we saw that he began to show a warm attitude towards Valentina Matvienko, the speaker of the Upper Chamber of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. I think Alen Simonyan did not justify himself during the Armenian-Azerbaijani parliamentary track, although he was very enthusiastic about that topic. We cannot rule out that Simonyan himself, realizing that he cannot meet the expectations in the Azerbaijani and Turkish tracks, specially placed himself in the Russian line.

• The opposition never intended to destabilize the situation on any occasion. But the situation could change during the counting of votes, and this worried the centers that were not interested in qualitative change in Armenia. Nikol Pashinyan himself should have been interested in that change, thus freeing himself and Armenia from the trap, but he did not do it.

• Now Russia simply does not have the desire and time for Nikol Pashinyan. We see that the situation on the Ukrainian front is tense, and I don’t think that Armenia’s problems, at least as far as Putin is concerned, are essential for Russia, even if there was an agreement regarding the Pashinyan-Putin meeting. As for the economic sanctions imposed by Russia on Armenia, I claim that it worked in Pashinyan’s favor, and the part of his electorate that would not even go to the elections, mobilized around him, within the logic of “we will not exchange strawberries for our sovereignty”. I think this contributed to the fact that, taking into account “Prosperous Armenia” processes related to the party, Pashinyan will collect 3/5. I don’t think they understood this in Russia, but I can’t say what is their priority. But I say again: I don’t have the impression that Russia has set itself the task of replacing Pashinyan. If we thought otherwise, then we are naive. Otherwise, he would not help, would not assist Nikol Pashinyan to de facto mislead the Armenian people. Why was Russia’s friends announced by Putin, which allowed Nikol Pashinyan to intensify his anti-propaganda against the opposition, calling them pro-Russian forces? What did it give the Armenian people?:

• Russia’s future policy towards Armenia will be determined by the developments on the Ukrainian front. The priority for them now is to be able to maneuver in the issue of Armenia. In that matter, Pashinyan gives them that opportunity, even with his voiced anti-Russian attitude. 

• I think Pashinyan is not particularly concerned that Putin did not congratulate him. But one of the first congratulated Kazakhstan, which is a Russian, Turkish and British communication destination in the Eurasian zone. From this point of view, the situation is complicated, and I think that not congratulating Putin has nothing to do with real politics:

• It is not necessary to overestimate the possibility of Pashinyan to deceive any country. If there is anyone who is deceived, it is the Armenian society. The European market cannot replace the Russian market. The Armenian economy is being sacrificed. Armenia’s economy is turning into a service economy within the framework of the Middle Corridor. And putting one of the most important branches of the economy – agriculture – under attack for political calculations is an attack on the economy, therefore, it is against the sovereignty of Armenia.:

• The European Union does not need anything else from Armenia than to meet the demands of Azerbaijan as quickly as possible, while building the ideas related to the same Middle Corridor. The current government sacrifices Armenia’s economy to solve its political problems. 

• It is important when the president announces that Russia wants to take away Armenia’s sovereignty, and in this matter Armenia relies on the support of the European Union. Here it is difficult for the European Union to refuse, and somewhere it finds itself under its own responsibility. And this is beneficial for Russia:

• When listing the beneficiaries of destabilizing our region, one should not forget about Israel. 

• Europe is highly dependent on Turkey, and there is nothing new here. It is noteworthy that before the NATO summit to be started in Istanbul, Trump also paid homage to Turkey and Erdogan. The nature of US-Israel relations is also changing, and this too will be a difficult process.

• Today’s processes have the logic that the scales are leaning towards Turkey, and from a tactical point of view, of course, today Turkey’s influence in Armenia is greater than Russia’s. Unfortunately, we are still waiting for who will come and rule us. Unfortunately, Armenia as a state has practically no content today. That “peace” is not a content, and a state without content generally cannot make a choice whether it goes to Russia, Turkey or Azerbaijan. They make choices against themselves, competing with each other. And now Nikol Pashinyan has found himself in a situation where he indulged himself:

• The problem is that the Armenian government formulates its presence in any process at the level of propaganda. Apart from propaganda, there is no politics, and this aggravates our situation.

• When any investor sees that NSS employees at the level of the prime minister are empowered to leak information, it is unlikely that Armenia will be an attractive country for investments. 

• Nikol Pashinyan is moving towards classical authoritarianism. And it will succeed when the authoritarianism of the government is built with the pyramid of power. But this cannot last long:

• Our society is under a very strong information attack, and in that sense, resistance has been overcome. This can lead to a very dangerous situation.

• In Baku, Ursula von der Leyen will probably try to reduce Baku’s demands towards Armenia, so that Yerevan meets them as quickly as possible, so that Europe, in turn, gets its share of the Caucasus. And if it doesn’t work, and Aliyev doesn’t give in, and he probably won’t, already in Armenia he will try to convince Pashinyan to accept Azerbaijan’s demands, promising more and more lavish pies.:

• Macron and Ursula von der Leyen do not quite flow in the same stream. It is possible that before the latter’s visits, France with that document, in which there was a statement about Artsakh, is simply trying to complicate the negotiation environment for him. I do not rule out that in this situation, Macron and Aliyev can act within the framework of the same logic. In addition, it is not the first time that the Executive and the Parliament may have different positions in France. It is not surprising that there may be such a resolution in the Parliament, and then the government will use it for its own interests. But this is more of an opportunity for Aliyev than a problem. 

• A card is being played that a number of regional actors are sensitive to. The recognition of the Armenian Genocide will give Netanyahu an opportunity to open the field. Apart from Turkey, Iran, Russia and Europe will be sensitive to this issue. Whether the Knesset will accept it or not depends on what issues Netanyahu’s bloody hand will resolve by raising the issue. In addition, it is important who knows:

• The only intrigue in the Constitutional Court is the return of PAP votes. The CC will not cancel the election results, and depending on the positions in the external environment, the problem is only the decision related to the votes of “Prosperous Armenia”. But I want to think that regardless of the decision of the CC, in the long term our political forces know what to do. It is not worth talking about the defeat of the opposition. Yes, the opposition did not win, but it did not lose, but it managed to do a lot. The leading forces of the opposition have managed to do a lot in recent months, now we need to develop the result, continue talking to the public.

• Mandates are a tool that should not be abandoned. During the Parliament of the previous convocation, I was also against the opposition giving up the mandates. But in the case of taking the mandates, one should not allow the process to move into the opposition-government conflict field, one should form one’s own agenda, and use the mandates to serve it. There is a possibility of that. Politics should not be dictated by Facebook statuses and likes. And in this regard, Samvel Karapetyan’s last statement was important:

Details in the video.

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