June 29 we reported that the representatives of non-governmental organizations of Azerbaijan, relatives of “Khojalu Genocide victims”, relatives of victims and dead from explosions of “Armenian mines” published an open letterthat international initiatives should not make Ruben Vardanyan look like a victim.

Note that:  Former Minister of State of Artsakh Ruben Vardanyan yesterday to be condemned is 20 years in prison, the Baku state prosecutor, however, demanded life imprisonment. Ruben Vardanyan, who has never held a military position, was found guilty by the Baku court of a number of crimes, including the war against Azerbaijan, financing terrorism, creating and leading illegal armed groups, etc.

168.am studied the identities and activities of the Azerbaijani public figures who signed the open letter against Ruben Vardanyan.

■ President of Azerbaijan “Families of Missing Persons of Karabakh” public association Könul Behbudova

He regularly demanded from Armenia maps of mass graves provide, especially focused on the issue of searching for missing persons in the direction of Khojalu, admitting that the Armenian side is the perpetrator of the “Khojalu Genocide”.

■  “Zafar” for support of families of Azerbaijani martyrs President of the public union Sevinj Alizadeh.

He is also involved in Azerbaijan’s Member of the Public Council attached to the State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations.

Moreover, Sevinj Alizade, a lieutenant colonel of the Azerbaijani army who was destroyed in the April 2016 war Raguf Cheers is a widow: Alizadeh’s emphasis is due to this very fact  anti-Armenian rhetoric and stance.

■  NGOs of Azerbaijan of the national forum board member  Zaur Ibrahimli

On various occasions he announced, that “Armenia continues to actively arm itself under the guise of peace, and what? the international community is guided by double standards“. In other words, the fact that Azerbaijan is signing large arms supply contracts and arming itself, the Azerbaijani public figure does not notice and does not draw the attention of the international community.

■  «Ayaz Mirzayev, president of the Azerbaijan Journalists Network public association

He criticized Armenia’s “predatory mining” from the point of view of harming the environment.

■ Head of public association dealing with human rights  Amir Aliyev

He joined the initiatives that demanded that European countries put pressure on Armenia to interrogate people who know the locations of mass graves and can find any remains of those who are considered missing. Amir Aliyev on different occasions trying is to prove, that Armenia is a “genocidal state” and carried out the “Khojalu Genocide”, so the “criminals” should be brought to justice.

«The remains found in Khojaly are another confirmation of the commission of these crimes. First of all, it is a crime of aggression. Azerbaijan has been subjected to aggression by Armenia for a long time. It is also an international crime. And it is a crime of genocide, which is already fully recognized at the international level.” He said in a conversation with journalists in May 2025.

■ “Sonmez Mashal” President of the Public Association of Cultural Relations  Shahla Nagieva

in Azerbaijan and beyond its borders preaches, that Armenians carried out the “Khojalu Genocide”, and the world should recognize this “truth”.

■ “Regional Center for Human Rights and Media” President of the public association Khalid Kazimov

There are information, that he on time He was among the Azerbaijanis who blocked the Lachin Corridor.

■  «Head of public association “Centre of Community Development”. Ahmed Abbasbeili

During his public activities, he was actively involved in the initiatives of Azerbaijani civil society related to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and Armenian-Azerbaijani relations, he promotes the Aliyev theses, and the above-mentioned letter is not the first letter against Ruben Vardanyan and Armenia, under which signed to Abbasbeil.

■ Chairman of the public union “For the Social Welfare of Citizens”.  Irada Rzazadeh

He introduces himself as a native of Yerevan, that is, a member of the “Western Azerbaijan” community, a supporter of the Aliyev state program and is active participation having to the events within it. On one occasion within the framework of the relevant Baku.tv project said that “Armenian nationalism flourished until 1988”.

Those who signed the open letter are not limited to this, there are also representatives of non-governmental organizations campaigning against “Armenian anti-personnel mines”. Hikmet Hajiyev, Aliyev’s assistant, is actively carrying out such a campaign, that is, he also keeps this issue, which creates a propaganda opportunity against Armenia, on the agenda.

As we mentioned above, the letter was signed by relatives of the “Khojalu Genocide victims” and public figures accusing the Armenian side of this.

What this means is that Azerbaijan is not going to remove the issue of international recognition of the “Khojalu Genocide” from its political agenda, which Nikol Pashinyan’s government is trying to do in the case of the 1915 Armenian Genocide by Ottoman Turkey and the war crimes committed by Azerbaijan in our days.

In other words, we are dealing with a non-mirror situation again, and Azerbaijan’s political and social struggle against Armenia has not ended, be it “Khojalu Genocide”, “Ganja events” or the return of “Western Azerbaijanis”, because, for example, the open letter mentioned above is not actually against Ruben Vardanyan, but against Armenia and the former presidents, Ruben Vardanyan did not play any role during the First War, right?

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In the “Pressing” program Satik Seyranyan the guest is businessman-farmer, deputy candidate of “Strong Armenia” party Harutyun Mnatsakanyan is.

The main theses of the interview are below.

• Russia has its own distinct state policy. When Russia considered Armenia as a friend, it turned a blind eye to the phytosanitary problems of Armenia’s agricultural products, but now it does not. When you conduct your foreign policy in such a way that you don’t have its opposition, then you shouldn’t do it:

• 2018-2025 no matter how you look at the trade, Armenia is dependent on Russia in all directions. Armenia’s SATM does not work at all, our fruits and vegetables do not meet the standards, and it is not the farmer’s fault.

• It was necessary to predict this situation and not to make flowers the main export destination. You can’t get anything from the flower, it rots and you throw it away, you can’t make preserves or anything else from the flower… Now the rose producers throw it away or give it to supermarkets at very cheap prices. If even 5 million out of 96 million flowers are exported, that is only 5%. Our flower producers are not competitive in the European market. And today, the authorities put people in a desperate situation by their actions, when they present it as a victory of the state… I am amazed. Exporting another 15 million flowers with these 10 million euro subsidies will not solve any problem in Armenia.

• I fear another scenario. They can borrow 1 billion dollars in foreign debt, make compensations, and in the end, the Armenian people will pay that amount. What Nikoli did is not an anti-Russian policy, it is anti-Armenian. Nikol does not harm Russia, he harms us:

• This year, mulberries and greens were not exported at all, but the prices did not fall. The price of tomatoes has recently dropped. in networks it was 148 drams. And this means that the farmer gave the maximum for 80-90 drams. It is clear that the farmer is already working at a loss. If greenhouses fail, tomorrow we will eat either Turkish tomatoes or expensive tomatoes. It will be what happened to the egg market, when last year the price dropped to 10-12 drams, now the egg is 80-100 drams.

• More than 80% of the grain used in the field of animal husbandry is imported from Russia to Armenia. It is in the form of wheat, barley, corn, rye and other crops. In other words, our entire livestock sector, our daily bread comes from Russian wheat. Oil for our daily use, grains: peas, lentils, buckwheat, types of rice, oat flakes are imported from Russia in large volumes, vodkas are imported from Russia at a cheap price. Liquid gas, natural gas, diesel fuel, gasoline, etc. are imported from Russia. Even if we eat eggs today, we eat them at the expense of Russian wheat:

• Even Georgia, which considers Russia to be its enemy and was even at war with that state, did not stop its trade with Russia during the entire Russo-Georgian war. Now we are in a worse situation than Georgia. Russia has banned all our agricultural products. It’s a shame, don’t lie that our products will be exported to the European market. You also print a brochure like a primer on what a farmer should do. The farmer who exports food to Europe knows them very well, whoever has never exported, should not export.

• A carload of apricots was sent to France. As soon as the customs are cleared, they will say that we have entered the French market, but they have no idea what the real export is. And I am sorry that the population believes this:

• If this continues, price increases are inevitable for many products, because no diversification has been done for our economy, which is dependent on the Russian market. You should have a procurement station, laboratories accredited with Europe, you should have warehouses in Europe, you should have done analyses. You have done nothing, but you want to enter the European market. And for that, what did you, as the government, do?:

• They say that there will be an export of apricots to Poland, for how many days the government has been buzzing with news that, lo and behold, apricots will be exported to Poland… in fact, the government has no involvement, it has not done anything for this, the private sector has done it. The farmer did it exclusively through his connections. Davit Davtyan did the same, who exported asparagus to Singapore. The state has nothing to do with that either.

• I have seen wines in Europe that are cheaper than regular water. How will we enter the European market with our quality wines and cognacs, how will we compete with Spanish, French, Italian wines and other spirits? China imposed lower customs duties on Georgian wines than on Armenian wines. 

• Apricots do not enter America from Armenia, because the entry of Armenian apricots into the US is prohibited. embargoed: I don’t know why…

• The ban on the export of Armenian fish products to Russia is the most painful. The volume of the product is large, they will not be able to consume it domestically, it is not competitive abroad, they will not be able to sell it. If the ban lasts for 3-4 months, they can just wait, keep the fish in the ponds, and then see what happens. This is the only thing that our fish farmers can do at the moment.

• A grandfather selling a bucket of strawberries said: “Okay, but instead we are sovereign.” I mean, dear uncle, sovereignty is also about self-sufficiency, or what does trade have to do with sovereignty? The raw material of all tomato paste produced in Armenia is Persian. We don’t have enough tomatoes to produce tomatoes, what kind of sovereignty are you talking about?:

• You are the head of the state, first of all you have to maintain the presumption of innocence of a person. When people see the country’s No. 1 not keeping it, they don’t either.

• When you cut and distribute the skin of a pig slaughtered at home during an election campaign, don’t you think that you are spitting on the law of slaughterhouses you have adopted? You’re counter-advertising huh?:

• Drinkers, smokers and drivers will feel the consequences of the increase in excise taxes.

• I am more than sure that the CP has deliberately changed the traffic rules in Yerevan so that there are constant traffic jams in the city of Yerevan. Traffic in the city is absolutely paralyzed. This is done so that there will be no street fighting, the movement of people will be limited, and more people will use their transport system, which is working at a loss.:

• If our party decides to take the mandates and enter the parliament, we will not enter into that disgusting conversation with the CP, but, I repeat, it has not yet been decided whether we will take the mandate or not. If we take it, we will not use that disgusting speech.

• He is not a member of parliament or deputy president or president, you are a boy, do it, let’s talk as human beings… They, when they are in equal conditions, are zero. Yes, they are a figure of collective Alen Simonyan, who grabs a citizen’s wings with a bodyguard to spit on a person… And under equal conditions, the person on whom Alen Simonyan spat, that boy can take off the head of Alen Simonyan… 

• We have a trajectory, a biography, unlike Vahagn Aleksanyan and other CP members. Our biography is not 8 years old. We created our biography, not achieved it with the patronage of a famous person, as in KP. We will try to change the political culture in the National Assembly.

Details in the video.

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Despite the reservations presented by the “Armenia” alliance, the judge of the Constitutional Court, Seda Safaryan, continued to participate in the trial of contesting the results of the elections in the Constitutional Court.

In 2022, Seda Safaryan was elected a judge of the Supreme Court by the parliamentary majority on the recommendation of the Government. The “Armenia” alliance believes that judge Seda Safaryan “is biased, has a negative attitude towards Robert Kocharyan, and participated in the 2021 elections with Arman Babajanyan on the same list.”

Another addition in this context: 168․amwrote in 2024 that, according to the representative of the successors of the victims in the March 1 case, lawyer Seda Safaryan հայտարարագրի՝ Seda Safaryan’s daughter-in-law, Mariam Gzoghyan, was registered as an expert in the Prime Minister’s staff, and her son was employed in the Anti-Corruption Committee.

Register We also knew that Artashes Khalatyan, Seda Safaryan’s assistant in the CC, gave political assessments and legal comments to the opposition movements through publications in Pashinyan’s family newspaper.

The interesting episodes about Seda Safaryan and his family members do not end there․ Below are other records in their 2025 declarations submitted to the Corruption Prevention Commission in 2026. It should be noted that these declarations are what the officials and family members informed about.

Seda Safaryan

Thus, Judge Seda Safaryan of the CC started and ended the reporting year, 2025, with 5 real estates. A non-residential area of ​​an apartment building donated in 2012, which is owned by an individual, an individual residential house purchased in 2013 in Jrvezh and jointly owned, a non-residential area of ​​an apartment building purchased in 2014, which is again managed under joint ownership, and two apartments purchased in 2022, 2023.

Safaryan’s bank account balances almost doubled during the year, making 1,439,586.9 AMD at the end of the year instead of 765,282.9 AMD at the beginning of the year, and cash funds decreased by 500 thousand AMD, making 1 million AMD at the end of the year.

21,640,117.3 drams of income of the SC judge for the reporting year was generated from the salary of 19,635,012 drams received from the SC and other payments equal to it, 78,033.3 drams received from the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, 1,927,072 drams from the income tax refund received from Finnach.

Safaryan also mentioned 6,480,329.6 drams as the principal balance of the loan.  the object of the mortgage is the apartment. During the year, in general, he directed 12,513,371.8 drams to repay the loan.

Seyran Kyureghyan, Seda Safaryan’s husband

Seda Safaryan’s husband, Seyran Kyureghyan, mentioned in the declaration about 4 jointly owned real estates, 2 of which, apartments in Nor Nork and Arabkir, were bought in recent years. Seyran Kyureghyan also announced the 2004 production “Toyota” car that was donated by an unknown party in 2022. The balances of Safaryan’s husband’s bank accounts fluctuated little during the year. 657,744.61 drams remained at the end of the year from 728,734.61 drams at the beginning of the year.

During the year, the official’s family member received 17,131,541 drams of income, which was generated from the 1,172,160 drams pension received from the Ministry of Defense, 714,381 drams from the salary received from the SC and other payments equal to it, and the other incomes were generated from the rental money received from 3 areas. To remind, the press wrote earlier that Seda Safaryan appointed her husband as her own driver.

By the way, in our previous publication, in which was reflected as well as Seyran Kyureghyan’s declaration, we mentioned that in that year he also mentioned the CC as his place of work.

Safaryan’s husband also mentioned the amount of the principal balance of the loan as of December 31, 2025: 6,480,329.6 drams. The object of the mortgage is the acquisition of real estate from a newly constructed building.

Seyran Kyureghyan spent 3,300,000 drams for recreation in 2025, and 2 million drams for real estate renovation.

Koryun Kyureghyan, son of Seda Safaryan

2025 was auspicious for Koryun Kyureghyan, the son of Seda Safaryan. During the year, he bought a 2022 “Tesla” brand car for 14 million drams. “Online Salvage Car Auctions” was mentioned as a party to the transaction. Used:

From the line of the declaration: loans given and returned, we learn about the loan of 2,600,000 drams given and returned 2,900,000 drams during the year. Gor Ghumashyan was mentioned as a debtor.

Kyureghyan Jr.’s bank account balances almost tripled during the year. 374,056 drams at the beginning of the year amounted to 1,253,097.98 drams at the end of the year, and cash resources decreased, and instead of 480 thousand drams at the beginning of the year, he declared 100 thousand drams at the end of the year.

Koryun Kyureghyan’s income for the reporting year of 2025 was about 12.5 million AMD, which was generated from the salary of 9,814,476 AMD received from the Anti-Corruption Committee and other payments equivalent to it and from the loan of 2,600,000 AMD from Amio Bank.

During the year, he directed 2,900,000 drams to repay the loan, and he did not publicize the contents of another 3,850,000 drams one-time expenditure.

Seda Safaryan’s daughter-in-law Mariam Gzoghyan

From the declaration of Safaryan’s daughter-in-law, we learn that he has been an assistant judge of the Supreme Court since November 2025. He mentioned the balances of the bank accounts, which during the year fluctuated around 100 thousand drams. Mariam Gzoghyan’s income of 901,816 drams for the reporting year was generated from the salary of 424,661 drams received from the State Council and/or other equivalent payments, the 444,678 drams pension received from the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, as well as the 32,477 drams received from the “Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia” and/or other equivalent payments. from payments.

To remind, the CC decided that Vardanyan and Zeynalyan, former members of the “Civil Agreement” and “Republic” parties, have a biased attitude towards the trial participants. The CC claimed that the judges discussed Safaryan’s issue at the June 21 session and did not adopt a decision on the impossibility of his participation, because there were not enough votes in favor.

Meanwhile, the “Armenia” alliance challenging the results of the elections in the Constitutional Court believes that judge Seda Safaryan is “biased, has a negative attitude towards Robert Kocharyan and participated in the 2021 elections with Arman Babajanyan on the same list.” Babajanyan’s “For the Republic” party is one of the 7 forces contesting the results of the elections, and it turns out that Safaryan now has to make a decision on the case of his former political partner as well.

In fact, it turns out that the majority of CC 9 judges did not see any problem regarding Seda Safaryan’s bias.

In any case, already during the examination of the issue in the CC, Seda Safaryan reinforced the point of view of bias among the applicants with his questions. they noticed that Safaryan repeats the speech of CP, makes political statements.

It should also be reminded that the factions “Hayastan” and “I have honor” put into circulation the project to appeal to the Constitutional Court on the issue of terminating the powers of Constitutional Court Judge Seda Safaryan in 2023, but it was rejected by the efforts of the ruling faction. As a basis for terminating the powers of Seda Safaryan, it was mentioned that the latter, violating the requirements of incompatibility established for the judge of the Constitutional Court, engaged in entrepreneurship. The CC never started any process. And Seda Safaryan practiced law as a judge, which is prohibited by law.

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In the “Pressing” program Satik Seyranyan the guest hLusine Yaghjian, epidemiologist, doctor, professor, lecturer at the University of Florida, USA is.

Lusine Yaghjian learned Yerevan State Medical Universityto whom, Master of Public Healthin: (MPH) degree American University of Armeniato whom, then continued his education A:Faculty of Health Sciencesto whom (in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health), pDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) is in epidemiology (USA:, ohio University of Cincinnati, Department of Environmental Health, Department of Epidemiology), Ohio, USA (Director: Dr. Susan Pinney): 2009–2013: Postdoctoral Researcher, Cancer Prevention and Control (University of Washington, St. Louis and Siteman Cancer Center, led by Dr Graham Cold). Since 2013, he has been working as a lecturer at the University of Florida, USA. Has 23 years of experience in healthcare and canceryhas a degree in epidemiology.

The main theses of the interview are below.

• The image of healthcare in Armenia is very worrying, the situation is very sad. All the efforts of the health care system are aimed at the last stage, when the patient is already in the hospital, while the stages of primary and secondary prevention are very important. Unfortunately, I don’t see it being done in Armenia. At most, secondary prevention is done, which, if not done correctly, will lead to system collapse.

• Until recently, there was no specific registry in Armenia in the field of oncology. Recently, some steps are being taken in that direction, but my attempts to get in touch with those responsible have not yielded any results. It takes years for that registry to be validated. It is necessary to actively monitor these patients, to be in constant contact with them. Without it, it is impossible to have clear, accurate data about oncological diseases.

• Screening programs are being added in Armenia, which brings with it new problems. Medical facilities performing testing or treatment must be prepared to serve large numbers of patients, because if large numbers of new patients are detected and not treated, the entire purpose of screening will be lost.:

• Any survey conducted in official reports should have a specific purpose, so that you can say this is the specific reason, and based on this, we can take the following steps. Queries aren’t just for drawing pretty charts. What’s more important, whether a person living in a village has an outdoor toilet or not, or that you’re bringing in labor from a country where hygiene is very poor and there are lots of viruses:

• One of the questions in those reports was about depression. The survey asked: Who is more depressed, those who lost in the 44-day war or those who did not? It’s clear, isn’t it, that the haves are more? So what’s the point of wasting a public resource on this survey? There are absurd questions in those surveys, and their purpose is not clear. 

• It was announced that the Ministry of Health of Armenia has started creating a cancer registry that will receive and collect data on cancer patients. However, I see a lack of accurate data collection. This not only affects the accuracy of health statistics and planning, but also creates obstacles. Furthermore, it is not possible to evaluate any implemented program if its data are inaccurate, the tools used for evaluation are inadequate, and the methods are not clearly defined.

• Sustainable and effective development of healthcare systems is possible only when the processes of management decision-making and resource allocation are based on reliable statistical data. With such information, it is possible to obtain a complete picture of population morbidity, mortality trends, workload of medical facilities, quality of services, geographic and social access, as well as provision of human resources. This is not done in Armenia, an unprofessional approach is shown. 

• Inconsistent accountability over the years, missing documentation that does not include data on deaths from COVID and the 44-day war. Instead, the official reports are full of useless graphs and useless information (toilet location, etc.). 

• In the United States, age-adjusted premature death rates from cancer have decreased by about 20% over the past two decades. Moreover, this happened thanks to the implementation of very aggressive prevention measures. And this is when the treatment methods in the US are even more innovative, the screening programs are even more aggressive. Meanwhile, in Armenia, according to the indicators given by the Ministry of Health, there is a 23% decrease in morbidity in 7 years.

• Statistics published by Anahit Avanesyan included premature deaths from cardiovascular disease per 100,000 population (decrease from 100.9 in 2018 to 85.7 in 2025 or a 15% decrease in 7 years) and cancer (decrease from 75.6 in 2018 to 58.4 or about 23% in 7 in the year). How so? In recent years, people have had the opportunity to go abroad, to be treated, to come, therefore, these positive indicators are not the achievement of Armenia, but of those countries.: People are being misled by providing false information.

• Proper cancer statistics require full coverage and proper accountability for standard data elements. Even if the registry is established, it will take time to verify its operation and use the data correctly.

• Are cases of cancer diagnosed abroad being properly accounted for? Positive cases of cancer patients treated in other countries outside of Armenia cannot reflect the quality of Armenia’s healthcare system. 

• Drinking, smoking and air pollution are some of the causes of cancer. If everyone stopped smoking, 70-80% of lung tumors would not occur. 30% of cancer cases can be reduced if air pollution levels are reduced. These are huge wings! Screening, of course, can change the situation if there is an understanding that the goal of screening is to treat a person quickly after an early diagnosis. If it depends on a person to stop drinking or smoking, then the issue of air pollution should be solved by the state, it is the government’s job. 

The problem of air pollution is given a large role in the development of cancer, because air is something that the state must deal with. It does not depend on a person’s will, people have to breathe that air whether they like it or not. Air pollution has been proven to have a huge impact, so why isn’t it being addressed as well as drinking water quality?

• Let the Minister of Health, Anahit Avanesyan, explain what is the reason that in the last 3 years, the incidence of prostate disease has increased by 60%, and that of the breast by 20%, and nothing is being done about it. I would like to hear his answer.

• Along with the spread of drug addiction, the number of hepatitis and AIDS patients is increasing. Available figures show that the picture is getting worse. Medical centers should keep this in mind.

Those who come from other countries must undergo a check-up so that they do not have an infection and do not bring infections from their countries to Armenia. The same goes for tuberculosis. India, China and Pakistan are in the first place in the number of tuberculosis carriers. Why do we endanger the health of our citizens, especially since those who come do not know that they are sick and will infect others… And these diseases require long-term and expensive treatment for life. Who will pay for it if our population becomes infected?

If the state doesn’t do it, at least employers should try to prevent it. The solution is that no employer should be allowed to hire workers from those countries unless they have tested positive for the specified diseases.:

Those leaving for long-term work in the United States and other countries must submit the answers to these tests.

• In the US, both sperm and blood donors receive a certain amount of money. And if we take this into account, it is not excluded that drug addicts also want to donate sperm and be a danger to the women who will be its recipients. It is a matter of national security and there should be strict control.

• If there is no registry of sperm donors in Armenia, and the number of donors is also small, then after some time there will be a generation where the probability of being siblings is high, increasing, with all the resulting genetic consequences: diseases, mortality, health problems, genetic defects, etc. I repeat, it is a matter of national security. 

• About the universal health insurance system implemented in Armenia. Sooner or later, the system will explode if steps are not taken, especially since the flow of patients will increase and the workload of doctors will increase. This problem also exists in the USA. knowing that the patient is insured, many tests are ordered, but there is a specialist who says what is needed and what is not. Is there such a specialist in Armenia? I’m not sure. It turns out that patients who really need treatment will have to wait. And I feel sorry for the doctors who have to admit patients with such a large flow, explain, talk about the condition. It’s tough both physically and psychologically.

• I would advise your colleagues to ask questions to Anahit Avanesyan again: morbidity is increasing, how do you explain it, how do you evaluate it as an improvement of the situation, when the numbers show a completely opposite picture?

Details in the video.

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