168․amthe international law specialist Ara Ghazaryanin a conversation with the ECHR, he referred to the examination of interstate and individual complaints at the ECHR. In this context, the specialist also emphasized the issue of the right of return of the population of Nagorno Karabakh, as well as talking about the imaginary Azerbaijani rhetoric about “300 thousand Azerbaijanis”, Azerbaijani aspirations and the inadequate response of the Armenian side in many issues.

Ara Ghazaryan’s professional observations are below․

• Yes, there is an obligation to waive interstate complaints bilaterally in various instances, but this will not prevent individuals from filing complaints as long as these two states do not have instruments in place to prevent, detect, or investigate such violations.

• In the “Peace Treaty” project, which was published, there is no mechanism of return, there is no mechanism to investigate the committed criminal acts. As long as all the means of legal protection are missing there, citizens can apply to the international court. However, they should not wait too long, because there is also a criterion for judicial admission.

• Work is being done almost every day in the direction of sending complaints regarding the property rights and the right of return of persons forcibly displaced from Artsakh.

• We have 9 judgments against Azerbaijan, 8 of which are at the execution stage. Azerbaijan does not declare that it will not comply, but it constantly maneuvers for various reasons, delays and tries to connect it with the “peace agreement”, but I mentioned that there are no mechanisms in the peace agreement. We have 22 judgments in cases of 2016 and from 2022 until now about 1000 applications, which were submitted on the basis of the property rights and right of return of people forcibly displaced from Artsakh.

• If we talk about 1,000 complaints, then approximately 3-4,000 people have applied, but we have to ensure the initiation of these judicial processes in the direction of the rights of 120,000 people. In other words, at least several tens of thousands of applications, based on property rights, still need to be sent. Can you imagine the resources we are talking about that have not been done yet, which I don’t know if we will manage to do or not?

• The important thing is that the case is registered, and it is an individual, legal process that must be done, and here, of course, we need resources, workers, specialists to be able to take these cases completely to the European Court, because the European Court will not wait forever.

• Now I also want to appeal to the people of Artsakh: don’t delay, apply to the European Court even through us, don’t think that you can do it in 2, 3, 4 years. time is running out, please be sure to stand up for your rights and even if you are told it is a long process, yes, it is true, still apply, even for your children.

• The response is not adequate because Azerbaijan presents a pseudo idea under the theory. When the president just decides 300,000 a priori. when, where, how did you decide on 300,000? Isn’t it determined by processes, a whole process that takes years? Maybe 1,000 people can barely gather in Azerbaijan or 10,000 people to consider Armenia their homeland. I am not against their return, if they really consider Armenia their homeland, are ready to accept citizenship, are ready to accept all cultural heritage, etc., etc. But those people do not speak in Azerbaijan. only the representatives of the public authorities, who are implementing some pseudo initiative, speak. The Armenian authorities do not respond to this. Private groups are forced to respond, but what we say does not receive such a wide response, because we can only speak through legal processes, and I, by and large, do not deal with publicity.

• Return should be an individual process. each person needs an individual procedure, for example, in the 80s and 90s, it was regulated by civil law relations. for the most part, the citizens themselves agreed on a horizontal plane, there was even an exchange of houses.

• The mechanisms should be fixed in the annexes of the peace treaty. only 6-7 applications can be about the return. We don’t have all this. that’s why to say just like that: let’s return 300,000, very good, where are those 300,000, when did they apply, where did they apply, did they really leave property or are they adventurers, etc.?

• The issue of the return of native Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh cannot, in principle, constrain the RA authorities, because they were citizens of the Republic of Armenia, the residents of Artsakh are ethnic Armenians, and Armenia accepted them all, that is, took them under its protection, which means that they should also be engaged in their legal protection, and not only, let’s say, social benefits, etc., etc. In that sense, it is understandable again, Armenia’s response is inadequate.

• If Azerbaijan raises the right of return, the Armenian government should also raise the issue, but I don’t seem to have heard about the Armenian government raising the right of return, and the right of return has many components in it, starting with property rights, or if there is no property, compensation, compensation should also be made for moral, not only material damage, including organizing mutual visits. It is a complex series of measures that must be regulated, and for regulation, a normative base is needed, which these two states have not created.

• Armenia, by and large, is a victim, although Azerbaijan always tries to play the role of a victim, yes, we have lost territories, we have forcibly displaced people.

Zaruhi Dilanyan

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168TV’s “Zara Has a Question” the guest of the program International scholar Menua Soghomonyan is a member of “HayaVe” national-civic association.

At the beginning of the interview, Menua Soghomonyan referred to the episode of the arrest of “HayaVote” coordinator Avetik Chalabyan.

“It is nonsense from head to toe, a lie, a fabrication, a stupid basis for starting a prosecution against Avetik Chalabyan. The prosecution of Avetik Chalabyan is one of the successive links of the chain, which is carried out against the Armenian people, against the democracy of Armenia, against free speech, against the national-state interests of Armenia.

We see that these authorities have essentially been defeated. while forming a one-man government, they are defeated because they did not solve the problem set by their political masters: to have a constitutional majority and impose the Aliyev Constitution on Armenia and the Armenian people. In order to be able to conduct this process more smoothly, to make the uprising less public, they consider it necessary to isolate the people who speak, the influential people, who have weight.

The same applies to Armen Ashotyan, the same applies to Alen Ghevondyan, Tevanyan Andranik, everyone who speaks, who resists, shows resistance. To isolate people so that only the speakers they like speak, so that they repeat what Pashinyan says,” said Menua Soghomonyan.

Earlier it became known that in 2026 On June 24, A. was searched. Chalabyan’s apartment. He was arrested.

The Investigative Committee issued a message stating that A. Chalabyan, being the coordinator of “HayaVote” association, aimed to obstruct the 2026 elections. to exercise the free electoral right of citizens in the June 7 parliamentary elections. According to the proceedings, in May 2026, he traveled to another country and had meetings with officials of that country to persuade and interest them to use their official powers and influence to achieve that goal.

By the way, after the shooting of the program, it became known that Avetik Chalabyan was detained for 2 months.

Referring to the visit of the Azerbaijani official Hikmet Hajiyev after the elections and possible goals and Nikol Pashinyan’s “risk management” concerns in that context, the public-politician recalled an episode in the movie “The Godfather 2”.

“When one of their relatives from Sicily comes to speak for Michael Corleone and just sits in the special committee of the Senate, the brother sees his presence and changes his testimony, what he was supposed to say beforehand.

Hikmet Hajiyev’s visit was his presence in Armenia. on that day, if you remember, the Central Electoral Commission was examining the issue related to the results of voting in 3 precincts. We see that an illegal, unconstitutional, illegal decision is being made, not allowing re-voting in those three precincts, because if it were, “Prosperous Armenia” would get its mandates, and Pashinyan would be deprived of the opportunity of 3/5 of the deputies in the parliament. Hikmet Hajiev’s arrival in Armenia had a very symbolic role in that matter,” explained Menua Soghomonyan.

Speaking about the inadequate international response to what is happening in the country, Menua Soghomonyan attributed it to a simple circumstance. according to him, the external power centers need a yielding Armenia.

“We need a weak link. These authorities have taken, they gladly assumed that role, the role of a yielding Armenia,” he added.

The international expert also assured that the declarations about going to Europe and sovereignty are false.

“The sovereignty of the country is directly proportional to its internal potential. Sovereignty is not achieved by shouting, shouting, and various eloquent expressions of the leader. Sovereignty is built by putting stone upon stone, increasing internal strength and potential. One of the most important signs of sovereignty is internal unity, a strong community, a strong society. what we absolutely do not see in Armenia. Today, the people have been divided into different armies.

If we do not have the industry as the most important pillar of the economy, the backbone, if we are not economically interesting to the power centers, it means that we are not sovereign, a small state should be economically interesting first of all,” said the expert.

To the clarification, are we not getting interesting with TRIPP, he responded: “We are becoming interesting precisely in terms of the loss of sovereignty. That project is about the loss of sovereignty, because we are not able to clearly control who crosses our sovereign border.”

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In the “Pressing” program Satik Seyranyan the guest is the chairman of the “Democratic Alternative” party, political scientist Suren Surenyants is.

The main theses of the interview are below.

• In all countries, the Minister of Economy is happy when a job opens. Yesterday, the Minister of Economy of Armenia was proud that “Shangri La” owned by Gagik Tsarukyan was closed. That’s 500 jobs, by the way. So many jobs will be cut. This government only talks about arresting, imprisoning, choking. In Armenia there is an Institute of Danoschiks, the founder of which was Daniel Ioannisyan in 1937. in the best traditions ensures the retaliation of the state system. This morning it happened with Avetik Chalabyan. In this country, according to this government, the opposition can speak and sometimes criticize, but it cannot think about coming to power. But any machine, including a repressive machine, wears out.

• Opposition leaders must create political systems. People are tired and stressed, and it is obvious that there is not going to be a revolutionary solution to the situation. The opposition should create political systems so that nothing depends on one hand, abduction and persecution. If they don’t, there will be far more severe consequences. If the blitzkrieg plan fails, there is no need to resort to adventurism or marginalization, as was the case with the Georgian opposition.:

• All of our families are psychologically prepared, waiting for the specter of being arrested.

• Since we are dealing with the power of bums, they have never created value, they take away what someone else has created very easily. The properties of Gagik Tsarukyan and others are easily confiscated because of this:

• The Armenian people did not fall for the fact that Nikol Pashinyan read Stepan Zoryan and “Pope King”… If a person with a provincial mindset read other things, he might know other names. And by this I do not at all belittle the merits of King Pope. Naming a street should not be on the feet. Especially, who are the decision-makers, the bandits who organized a fight at the session of the Yerevan Council of Elders? It was the first time I saw something like this. It was a demonstrative thing, written by Nikol Pashinyan. They were showing the newly formed opposition what will happen in the National Assembly, and it will surely happen that way. The mayor doesn’t have enough authority that he can’t bridle? This indicates that all state representative bodies will work in this mode from now on:

• The West knows best that Nikol Pashinyan has no legitimacy, and this hysteria of Nikol Pashinyan is also due to external factors. The man openly says that the Hajiyev-Grigoryan meeting became possible because Azerbaijan questioned his ability to govern. Aliyev calls 600,000 voters “revanchist” with Pashinyan’s light touch. This is because Pashinyan had sealed the three opposition forces under the name of “three-headed party of war”.

• To Nikol Pashinyan, the West says that we have enough documents against you, and they gave carte blanche, saying: go, do whatever you want, become an authoritarian, but our demands must be fulfilled.

• Willingly or unwillingly, the PAP became the indicator by which the illegitimacy of Nikol Pashinyan was revealed, because the most secular fraud is connected with the PAP itself. Simple math suggests that filtering PAP out of Parliament renders the entire process illegitimate. PAP became the litmus test that revealed all the ugliness of Nikol Pashinyan. Nikol Pashinyan does not forgive PAP and Gagik Tsarukyan for this. This repressive wave will not stop as long as he is in power. For that, I repeat, political systems are needed, because the lightning revolution scenario will not work:

• Pashinyan wants to push the opposition to uncalculated actions in order to restore its legitimacy on the street. In addition, he thereby creates the basis for a new wave of repression. The opposition will take to the streets, but it will take to the streets when it is necessary, not at the will of Nikol Pashinyan.

• Pashinyan will at least physically imprison Gagik Tsarukyan and Samvel Karapetyan, he will not stop the campaign against the “Armenia” bloc and Robert Kocharian. The opposition should form the 1988 A council like “Karabakh Committee-2” so that the arrests of the leaders do not affect the processes:

• Figures like us should not find their comfort under the shadow of Gagik Tsarukyan and Samvel Karapetyan, to say that everything depends on the leaders. We also have to take our actions. If we had won, thousands of people would have run after the laurels, right? Life goes on, you have to get out of depression and speak to society.

• The question of taking the mandates is not a legal question, but a political one. If the opposition has a lightning revolution scenario, of course, then it should not take the mandates. This was the case during Saakashvili’s time in 2004, but there is also another example in Georgia, when the opposition made a mistake, did not take the mandates and became a marginal force in the results of the last elections. Mandates should be taken so as not to put yourself on the sidelines without having an alternative political project. 

• Boycott only works if you have a ready plan for revolution. All 3 of our opposition leaders are not revolutionary by nature:

• There has been usurpation of power. Vahagn Hovakimyan, other members of the CEC became a tool in the hands of Nikol Pashinyan, through which he usurped the power with the features of a coup d’état. If Nikol Pashinyan declares himself the winner at 2 o’clock in the morning, he is not doing it on a good day. With a cheerful face and a psalm, he tried first to consolidate his frightened team, and then to instruct the CEC on the counting of votes. The government did not win, that’s why Nikol Pashinyan is in such a nervous state:

• Daniel Ioannisyan has a problem to strengthen his positions in the government. that’s what these escalations are for. 

• Nikol Pashinyan will not go to the new elections now. He will go to new elections a year later, when he can lead the opposition. Going to the elections now is risky. Parliament was formed for the first time, the first session of which has not yet taken place, it is stillborn. Nikol Pashinyan does not understand that he is delegitimizing his power, because the opposition in the Parliament cannot be illegal, and the government is legal. He himself becomes a tool to be used to compromise:

• The current Constitutional Court is the only CC in history, all of whose members were appointed during the years of power of Nikol Pashinyan, and they are as backpackers as the members of the CEC. Seda Safaryan should be removed from the process because he was number 3 on the list of Arman Babajanyan’s “For the Republic” party in 2021. during the elections, and that party today disputes the results of the elections in the Supreme Court, and, besides, Seda Safaryan’s brother is one of the mouthpieces of this government.

• “Smatryashchi” in Armenia is Baku and Hajiyev himself. they did not like the results of the elections, “smatryashchi” came to see what is happening. Pashinyan licks the shoes of Aliyev and his nazirs-viziers and proudly presents it as sovereignty. Well, they should have come from there first, if you are an Azerbaijani protectorate.

• Those who voted for Pashinyan, understanding or not, voted for the Armenian-Russian economic war, which will have much more serious consequences for Armenia. They voted for Nikol Pashinyan’s adventure of the century. They will leave us out of the EAEU. These are the first elections that were de jure not even recognized by Russia.

• Let us not be excited that TRIPP may be canceled for some reason. In Turkey, they say that even if it comes out of our hands, do not hope that you will fall under our demands. 

• Nikol Pashinyan shot himself in the leg on June 7. Now he has completely become a foreign mechanism against this country. It is a weak, illegitimate government, a tool of expansion used against our country:

Details in the video.

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