These are sharp examples of personal persecution, brutal prohibition of freedom of speech, and oppression in one’s own country.

Aram Nikolyan was not fired. lawyer Criminal proceedings were not initiated in the case of designer Aram Nikolyan due to the absence of criminal charges.

Lawyer Alexander Kochubaev wrote about this on his Facebook page. “1. Criminal proceedings were not initiated in the case of Aram Nikolyan due to the absence of a criminal group. Aram Nikolyan was not fired from his job but was not allowed to enter the H1 building only with police intervention. Aram Nikolyan did not receive money for burning the flag, and that false news is spread by “Haykakan Zhamanak”, against which a lawsuit is filed for spreading defamation. Aram Nikolyan is prohibited from entering the library and all institutions with police checkpoints, on the instructions of the police leadership. These are sharp examples of personal persecution, brutal prohibition of freedom of speech and oppression in one’s own country. PS The important thing is that Aram Nikolyan’s grief is in place, and Mr. Nikolyan is smiling widely at all this,” Kochobaev wrote.

I should have said this the other day

Five years ago, I was also courageous for a moment and was sure that joining the “pan-people revolution” at the last moment, with water or without water, was the best political solution to clean the country from the swamped injustices, various pickpocket oligarchs, a few thieving officials and their coffee-baking eunuchs. 5 years ago these days I I sincerely believed that there would be no more teachers who falsified the electoral sheet with a dosh and cadastre scoundrels stamping bribes for the sake of their own village head.

5 years ago it was so natural for me that we have a safe Armenia and Artsakh it was so natural that Artsakh was Armenian and that’s it, that even when Nikol made a statement announcing the beginning of terror and violence: “whether I will be the Prime Minister of Armenia, or Armenia will not have a Prime Minister”, I did not understand and we didn’t realize this was a disaster call as John Don said, a bell that will ring for all of us.

5 years ago we had Artsakh

If we had Armenia as it is now, it does not lack like shagreen leather every day.

We had an army with a solid backbone.

Hadrut and Shushi.

They had international authority, from which in 5 years they made an eraser to clean geopolitical tables.

And 5 years ago, thousands of our sons were alive, in whose eyes were tattooed the Bayraktar of death for the last time.

I’m more guilty than the hundreds of thousands who were waiting for him to be declared Messiah, the operation of “looting” of the former and the righteous judgment of the Greek agoras.

I’m blushing about this picture.

Because I have my share of sin in this five years of hell.

And it doesn’t matter that my sin was the size of a pound, I guess.

Because when in five years, a patient from Armenia and Artsakh with a backbone is made from a wheelchair, whose days of life are already counted by everyone, there is no sin, big and small.

These days, five years ago, we committed suicide in paranoid ecstasy, killing not our bodies, but our security and the two Armenian states.

And it’s the least suicides.  ·   ·

Ishkhan Saghatelyan, a member of the General Assembly of the ARF, deputy of the Hayastan faction, referred to the regional visits of the opposition.

“Today, Ashot Simonyan, a member of the Supreme Body of the ARF Armenia, and Elinar Vardanyan, a deputy of the Armenia faction, visited the city of Charentsavan, where we had a meeting with our compatriots.

During the meeting, we discussed the situation in the country, the ways to get out of it, listened to the proposals of our compatriots, and answered the exciting questions.

Formation of opposition centers in regions and daily work with regional population is very important from the point of view of accumulation of necessary potential.

Therefore, giving great importance to such meetings, they will be continuous.

The schedule of regional visits for the coming week is as follows.

• on April 26, Tavush region. At 18:00 in the hall located at 5 Ashot Melikbekyan St., Ijevan city,
• on April 29, Gegharkunik region. At 4:00 p.m., in the “Van” ceremony hall of Martuni, – on April 29 at 7:00 p.m., at the ARF office at 11/27 Azatutyan, Gavar city.
• on April 30 in Aragatsotn, Voskevaz, Oshakan villages of Aragatsotn marz,” Ishkhan Saghatelyan wrote.

Garnik Zakaryan posted Nikol Pashinyan’s 2009 speech on his Facebook page. material below,

“NICOL PASHINIAN: March 26, 2009, Georgia received a terrible, simply terrible blow in the summer of last year, and this is the case when the government must have enough statesmanship to take the blow, the responsibility for the defeat, this is the case when the government must recognize itself as defeated in order to save the motherland from the label of a loser. especially since the current government of Georgia is the number one responsible for that defeat. If Saakashvili remains in power, the defeat of last year’s war and its morale-psychological consequences will weigh on Georgia, and if Saakashvili leaves, that defeat will weigh on his person, his team, but the country will be freed from those nightmarish feelings. In any case, he will get a chance to start a new life, to form new energy. Of course, Georgia lost Abkhazia and South Ossetia irretrievably, but it is not guaranteed to lose more. Even if Saakashvili can create such guarantees, Georgians, every time they see his face, will remember the nightmare of 2008, the national humiliation, which concerns both the state in general and every citizen of the country. And the daily reminder and feeling of this nightmare will deprive people of the opportunity to look ahead. Now the authorities of Georgia with their actions and arrests allegedly want to show that they are preventing the change of power “ordered” by Russia. Without going into the details, I will only emphasize that in the given situation, the establishment of tolerant relations with Russia is in the interests of Georgia itself, and it is obvious that Saakashvili cannot establish such relations.”

When Pashinyan pleads from the podium of the Armenian Parliament for Ilham Aliyev to recognize the territorial integrity of Armenia, and to recognize the borders of the USSR, he is not doing it for the sake of Armenia or ensuring the territorial integrity of Armenia.

But for the sake of his salvation, for the preservation of his power. He understands that his policy has led to the fact that the fate of himself and his political team is in the hands of the President of Azerbaijan, at the moment Aliyev wants, Pashinyan will lose not only power but also the current guarantees of personal security as a result.
Pashinyan does not say from the NA podium that the RA government, army, and people are ready to protect the territorial integrity of the country, he does not say that in the event of an enemy attack, the Armenian people will give him a worthy counterattack, as the government of any self-respecting country would do. He says otherwise: I refuse Artsakh, I refuse to protect the rights of the people of Artsakh, I refuse even the territories that Azerbaijan captured from Armenia, as long as Aliyev does not continue the attacks on Armenia, as long as he leaves what is there, so that he can work as prime minister. The humiliating and disgusting curtseys directed at Turkey were also aimed at it. Pashinyan wanted to say that he is ready to make Armenia a Turkish vilayet, to erase the anti-Turkish section in the historical memory of the Armenian people. to be proud of the flags of Armenia flying in Turkey, only if Turkey mediates for Pashinyan, mediates with Aliyev to allow him to continue his miserable existence. Pashinyan is begging, but he is not sure that Turkey will respond.
Aliyev is delighted to see how Pashinyan is begging for pity on his knees, and humiliates him even more, he demands that Pashinyan not give up Artsakh and the rights of the people of Artsakh, but do it in the way he wants. declare that Karabakh is Azerbaijan, and that’s it. Pashinyan, who only 3 years ago declared that Artsakh is Armenia and that’s it, now he should declare that Karabakh is Azerbaijan and that’s it. There is no doubt that Pashinyan can make a similar statement from the podium of the parliament next time, justifying that if this is the price of ensuring the territorial integrity of Armenia, then he is ready to pay it, in exchange for Aliyev showing mercy to him.
But Aliyev needs something other than humiliating Pashinyan and enjoying that scene. He will never recognize the territorial integrity of Armenia, because he has territorial ambitions towards Armenia. He needs Syunik or at least a part of it, which he calls the Zangezur Corridor and wants to connect with Nakhichevan and Turkey through that corridor. Aliyev does not need a road, but the territory itself, it is necessary that Azerbaijan, not Armenia, has control and sovereignty over that territory. Why does Aliyev need to recognize the territorial integrity of Armenia if he is going to war against Armenia?
Pashinyan understands that he has brought the country and the army to such a state that there is almost no resource for resistance. The people of Syun, the army, of course, will resist, but only the determination and self-sacrifice of the people is not enough for victory, the state government must organize that resistance. Modern weapons, ammunition, mobilization of human and material resources of the country, appropriate work with allies are necessary. Something that Pashinyan’s government is not capable of implementing, the best proof of which was the 44-day war of 2020.
Pashinyan understands that when Azerbaijan starts a large-scale war against Armenia and invades the territory of Armenia, his government will fall. The Armenian people will finally understand that the “peace agenda” promoted by Pashinyan has failed, and the only way to save Armenia is to remove the current government. At that time, neither the police nor the bunker will save Pashinyan. That is why he asks Aliyev to be satisfied with territorial concessions of several hundred hectares, in one case in Tegh village, in another case in Nerkin Hand or in another part of Armenia, in order to at least temporarily satisfy Aliyev’s appetite and extend his power.
It is necessary for the opposition to initiate a process of power change in Armenia before the next large-scale attack by Azerbaijan, otherwise after that there will be a change of power automatically, nothing will be left of Armenia.

Avetis Babajanyan