We must strive for peace, but one of the most fundamental factors in striving for peace is the power of the army, the military power, which I consider not a factor of war, but a factor of peace.

It was written by Levon Ter-Petrosyan, the first president of RA.

Let’s remind that today in Armenia is celebrated the Day of Earth Guard. In these days of 1992, the Shushi liberation operation took place.

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The authorities want to turn the parliamentary elections into a choice between foreign powers. At the start of the pre-election campaign in Goshavank, Arman Tatoyan, the prime ministerial candidate of the Wings of Unity party, former RA human rights defender, announced this.

According to him, no matter how much they try to convince the people that a choice should be made between the West and Russia, it is still the case that Armenia’s interests should be chosen.

“All their theses are that Armenia has no other choice. the people should look at which foreign power supports which party, and we say that the important thing is not what others want, but what we want,” he said.

Tatoyan emphasized that Nikol Pashinyan, who promotes the thesis of a choice between the West and Russia, actually enjoys the support of Azerbaijan. He added that Pashinyan did his best to turn the summit of the European Political Community into a tool of his propaganda.

“However, Armenia did not get anything from that summit, neither in visa liberalization, nor in the security system, nor in matters of investment and trade. The problem is that the Armenian authorities simply do not promote national interests,” Tatoyan said.

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Various representatives of the government, including Nikol Pashinyan, continue to announce from the high podium of the National Assembly that “Artsakh is not Armenian”, “they will not continue the Karabakh movement”, etc.

Yesterday, NA Vice President Ruben Rubinyan announced from the NA podium that “Artsakh is not Armenian after September 19, 2023, when Artsakh Armenians left Artsakh.” He is referring to when the Armenians of Artsakh were forcibly displaced from their homeland under the threat of Azeri genocidal actions. In this context, however, Ruben Rubinyan did not talk about the fact that before 2023, on October 6, 2022, Nikol Pashinyan recognized Artsakh as part of Azerbaijan in Prague.

Metaxe Hakobyan, deputy of Artsakh NA “Justice” faction According to him, Ruben Rubinyan is lying precisely because he contradicts the statements of his political leader and members of his political team.

“Alen Simonyan and Nikol Pashinyan made other statements, probably Ruben Rubinyan has lost his memory, he does not remember his leader’s statement regarding Artsakh itself, when he said that there is no option, Artsakh Armenians should accept Azerbaijani citizenship.

From the beginning, they were forming their agenda at least on the basis of the statement made in Prague on October 6, 2022. Through the former president of Artsakh, Nikol Pashinyan conveyed to us that the Armenians of Artsakh have no choice but to accept Azerbaijani citizenship.” of 168.am Metakse Hakobyan said in a conversation with

According to him, taking into account all the listed circumstances, at this pre-election stage the government is trying to remove the responsibility from itself and put all the responsibility on the government of Artsakh and the Armenians of Artsakh in general, as well as on the PB.

“I repeat, Ruben Rubinyan is lying, because from the beginning they adopted that “course” that the Armenians of Artsakh should integrate with Azerbaijan and get Azerbaijani citizenship, the rest is to forget, not to talk about their crimes. They know very well that their leader committed the greatest crime of the century on October 6, 2022, denying the Armenianness of Artsakh. At least let them keep quiet until they face the responsibility before the law, the criminal group will have to answer before the law. Yes, they handed over Artsakh,” added Metaxe Hakobyan.

According to his observation, no government is eternal, including Nikol Pashinyan’s government, national governments have always been eternal, but treacherous governments have not.

“The longer the reign of the treacherous government, the greater the punishment, because they continue to commit crimes as long as they are able to avoid punishment, because they are in power today and have paralyzed the entire law enforcement system.

But at some point, they will cease to be in power and will definitely be responsible before the law for all crimes,” emphasized Metaxe Hakobyan.

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On May 8, 1992, the city of Shushi of the Republic of Artsakh was liberated after a long period of Azerbaijani occupation.

Although years later it was again under the occupation of Azerbaijan Mayor of Shushi Artsvik Sargsyan it is certain that one day the Armenian city will be liberated again.

He considers what happened 34 years ago to be one of the brilliant pages in the history of Artsakh’s liberation struggle and the history of the Armenian people in general.

“Without the liberation of Shushi, it was not possible to keep Artsakh, and everyone understood this at that time. At that time, Azerbaijanis were bombarding the capital Stepanakert, including Askeran, Karin Tak, from Shushi. In addition, Shushi had to be liberated in order to open the way with Armenia so that the connection would always be there.

Shushi is another symbol in the lives of all of us, it is not for nothing that it is said that whoever controls Shushi, he will also cut off the whole of Artsakh. Shushi is the heart of Artsakh, and it is not for nothing that Artsakh’s victories began with the liberation of Shushi.” 168.amArtsvik Minasyan said in a conversation with

The mayor of Shushi remembers: the preparations for the liberation of Shushi and the whole process seemed to turn into a holiday, because everyone thought that they were going not to war, but to victory.

“The interesting thing is that everyone wanted to participate in the liberation, everyone had their money, everyone had the same goal: the liberation of Shushi. There was the realization that everything depends on the liberation of Shushi. If it was not liberated, then Artsakh would be lost, that’s why everyone went together and registered a victory,” added Artsvik Sargsyan.

Continuing, our interlocutor reminded that the foundation for the liberation of Shushi was laid on January 26, 1992 with the heroic battle of Karin Tak, in which he personally participated. The battle lasted 12 hours, the enemy gave 201 victims and fled in panic, leaving half of the bodies in the valley.

“It was with this battle that Azerbaijan understood that the back of its army was broken, their regular army was depressed. If Shushi and Karin Tak were not released, they would enter Hadrut and other places. Since then, Azerbaijan has named Karin Tak “Bloody Gorge”.

For 30 years, Azerbaijan said that it will capture Shush again, if the Armenian side organizes everything correctly, if they don’t say: forget Artsakh, Artsakh does not exist, then we will be able to liberate both Shush and all of Artsakh again.

Heydar Aliyev used to announce in their Mejlis that “forget it, Artsakh is no longer ours, Shushi is not ours”, but the people organized against his will. We have Artsakh, we have Shushi, cemeteries, sanctuaries, for the sake of all this, even after years, we must achieve what we want, because that land will not forgive us.

I congratulate all the participants in the liberation of Shushi, who feel our Trinity and keep it in their hearts. I bow to the graves of all the victims and to all those who liberated Shush and live next to us today,” stressed Artsvik Sargsyan.

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Minister of Justice Srbuhi Galyan received 45 million 202,134 drams in 2025. According to the declaration she submitted to the Corruption Prevention Commission the other day, her salary from the Prosecutor’s Office and other payments equivalent to it amounted to 26 million 690,752 AMD, the interest and other compensation received for loans or bank deposits – 104 thousand 140 AMD, the loans (loans) received – 12 million AMD, the income received from her ex-husband under the entry “other income” – 1 million 200,000 AMD, Income tax refund from SRC: 4,446,370 drams, salary received from Yerevan State University and equal payments: 760,872 drams.

At the beginning and end of the year, Srbuhi Galyan owned 5 real estates. 2 plots of land, 2 apartments and 1 individual residential house, in the case of three of which he is the sole owner, in the case of the other two – jointly.

By the way, last year the official had noted About 4 real estates, 1 apartment less.

In December 2025, the official purchased Unibank JSC bonds, the currency of which amounted to 11 million 998,005 drams at the end of the year.

Bank balances increased slightly during the year. the total volume at the end of the year slightly exceeded 3 million drams. Cash resources have also increased. at the beginning of the year they amounted to 2 million 700,000 drams and 5000 dollars, and at the end of the year – 2 million 900,000 drams and 5300 dollars.

The balance of the principal amount of received loans and borrowings as of December 31 of the reporting year was 31,279,125 drams in one case, the purpose of the loan was the apartment, in the other case it was 5,950,214 drams.

During the year, the official allocated 5,336,474 drams to the repayment of the loan.

According to the declaration, he made a one-time expenditure of AMD 11,998,005 without disclosing the content of the expenditure. Let’s note, however, that this is probably the purchase of bonds, because the amount of money is the same.

In 2024, Minister Galyan received an income of 33.8 million drams. He submitted to the Corruption Prevention Commission of the declaration according to this, most of this amount is his salary from the Prosecutor’s Office: 25 million drams, he also received a salary from the Ministry (he took office on November 5, 2024), another 3.1 million drams, from the Academy of Justice – 1 million drams, from Yerevan State University – 390,000 drams, and about 2.5 million drams he received from the SRC – mortgage income tax refund, 716,000 drams of other income from “Akba Bank”, 1 million drams from her ex-husband, Petros Mkryan.

Let’s remind: after holding various positions in the Legal Support Department of the Special Investigation Service, Nikol Pashinyan appointed 27-year-old Srbuhi Galyan as the Deputy Minister of Justice in July 2019, and then the Deputy Prosecutor General coordinating the field of functions aimed at the confiscation of property of illegal origin. Pashinyan’s team, KP, nominated Srbuhi Galyan for the position of Minister of Justice.

Let’s add that Srbuhi Galyan was also among the recipients of large bonuses, according to the well-known list.

“I received an additional payment of around 6-7 million after taxes. This is an additional payment that will be visible to the public as a one-time amount provided to the minister, in my case, I consider this as a payment for the whole year,” he said.

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In recent days, the topic of discussion on the Internet has become the adventures of bloggers close to Nikol Pashinyan in one of the military units of the RA Defense Ministry, where filming was done, and those videos were published.

If we consider that them accompanied Nikol Pashinyan’s assistant Gagik Isakhanyan (who, by the way, once, as the brother of the victim, participated to the protests in front of the Ministry of Defense), then we can say that the visit of the tiktokers to the armed forces unit had a pre-election-propaganda nature, with the permission of Nikol Pashinyan himself.

So, once again we are dealing with a deliberate act of discrediting the armed forces and disrespecting the uniform, without mentioning the possible problems with the law.

By the way, from the published videos, it can be assumed that the events took place in the military unit under the 3rd Army Corps of the RA Armed Forces.

Temur Shahnazaryan, Deputy Chief of Staff of the General Staff of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the RA Armed Forces, and Simon Nazaryan, the current commander of the 3rd Army Corps, can very well say: could something like this have happened during the time of the former commanders of the 3rd Corps, Grigory Khachaturov, Onik Gasparyan, and other commanders, and Grigory Khachaturov also served under Pashinyan’s government. Moreover, in the very regiment where he had a leadership position, could what is happening today happen?

And this is when the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia has not organized a visit of journalists to military units for a long time, when from time to time prohibitions have been imposed on the visits of opposition MPs.

And RA Defense Minister Suren Papikyan is either in fact at peace with such facts as the discrediting of the army, or, not being at peace and having sufficient leverage in office, he is politically constrained, perhaps unable, to face Pashinyan’s anti-army moves. Meanwhile, everything must have a limit, especially when it comes to the army and security, even if Nikol Pashinyan does not have “red lines” or, at least, “genetic” hatred towards the armed forces, in case of having complexes.

We wrote that for several years Pashinyan does not visit military units and combat bases on the eve of the New Year to congratulate soldiers and officers on their holidays.

On the other hand, the above is not at all surprising after Nikol Pashinyan, based on propaganda purposes, organized various civil groups accompanied fortified areas, displaying samples of weaponry acquired in recent years.

And on May 28 in Republic Square the upcoming arms show it will be exclusively a political report, and the Ministry of Defense, its leadership, the army will not be the hero of that day, but exclusively the person of Nikol Pashinyan.

When random people enter the army, the RA Defense Minister Suren Papikyan is the first to be targeted, because a natural question arises: does he have his permission? How is it that such people can visit military units at any time, and the doors are closed in front of oppositionists from time to time, and journalists are not allowed to go?

If there is no permission from the Minister of Defense, this already indicates another dangerous phenomenon, when difficult situations are created for one’s own and party minister, de facto limits his powers and rights, and in this case, it is not surprising when some MP from the CP can say that if they want to get acquainted with the weapons samples, they can contact him, he will organize…

And the bloggers close to Pashinyan were also in Kirantsi, filmed and showed in detail what was created in the fortified areas. conditions (probably on the example of the Ministry of Defense), as well as a school located meters away from the enemy the shelter

We remind you that “On State Secret” the law clearly defines that they are classified as state secrets “Information on the operational equipment (furnishing) of the territory of the Republic of Armenia, the preparation and conduct of operations, the deployment of troops (including conscription), their combat ability, the forms and methods of carrying out combat duty, the arrangement of the management system, the sequence of activities, the system’s availability, integrity, and comprehensive provision”.

The same law states that they are considered state secrets “location, purpose, degree of protection and preparedness, their design and construction of specially protected and special access and exit facilities” as well as “about civil defense forces and means, protection of administrative buildings and degree of security of the population” information.

This is exactly what we meant by noting that there are also problems related to the law, which the RA Ministry of Defense remembers only when responding to written media inquiries.

Nikol Pashinyan’s family also starts to remember the laws when any topic is related to their rights.

And Suren Papikyan, perhaps, has a lot to think about, as well as to realize that even though he is a party minister, he is first of all the head of the state security institute, the armed forces, and he should act based on those interests… after all, this is also a question of his own reputation.

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