Tomorrow the Resistance Movement will continue its protest actions in Armenia’s regions, Ishkhan Saghatelyan, deputy parliament speaker from the opposition said.

“There will be no rally tomorrow. There will be a nationwide rally on 28 May, at 18:00. At 16:00 there will be a big car rally from Sardarapat to France Square. The rally will be followed by a procession.

Representatives of the Resistance Movement and citizens block the Yerevan-Sevan road.

They chanted “Armenia without Nikol”, “Nikol is a traitor.

After a while, police officers started to force the protesters out of the road. A protester laid down on the ground and law enforcers tried to push him out of the way.

Yesterday deputy speaker of the Armenian parliament from opposition Ishkhan Saghatelyan said that protest rallies will be held in Yerevan and regions of Armenia. There will be no rally today. Saghatelyan called on everyone to gather for a nationwide rally on 28 May, followed by a march.

YEREVAN, Armenia — The American University of Armenia (AUA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Arman Tatoyan as a full-time professor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS), effective July 2022.

Having joined AUA in 2011 as an adjunct lecturer, he has taught courses on human rights and international criminal law, and has supervised master’s papers of students in the AUA Master of Laws (LL.M.) program. Starting in the 2022-23 academic year, Dr. Tatoyan will be teaching new courses in addition to his current ones.

Dr. Tatoyan has served as the human rights defender of the Republic of Armenia (RA) and head of the National Preventive Mechanism (2016-2022) elected by the RA National Assembly. He has also served as an ad hoc judge in the European Court of Human Rights (2016-2019). His first mandate for the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers, European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), was as member in respect of Armenia in 2011-2013. He was re-elected to the CPT in 2019.  

Dr. Tatoyan holds an LL.M. degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and is the recipient of the Distinguished Member Award of the LL.M. class of 2013. Prior to receiving his Ph.D. from the Yerevan State University (YSU) Faculty of Law, he completed the Wharton Business School Executive Education Program in Business and Law at the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds an academic rank of docent. Dr. Tatoyan has served as RA deputy minister of justice (2013-2016) and as deputy representative (deputy agent) of Armenia in the European Court of Human Rights (2013 -2016). He has extensive professional experience in the RA Constitutional Court and Cassation Court, as well as in civil society and international organizations, including the United Nations (UN), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the Council of Europe (CoE), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

On the occasion of his new appointment, Dr. Tatoyan noted, “AUA’s vibrant community is linked to a record of scholarly and professional achievements in all disciplines. My primary goal at AUA is to teach legal knowledge, legal reasoning, and legal thinking to create models for the shaping and further development of human rights and legal systems through effective solutions and overcoming challenges. Knowledge-based analytical probing is prevalent in teaching as a foundation for a democratic and rule-of-law-based state”.

In turn, LL.M. Program Chair, Assistant Professor Adelaida Baghdasaryan remarked, “I am excited for the extensive opportunity Dr. Tatoyan’s appointment affords our students to learn volumes of knowledge and professionalism from Dr. Tatoyan. Knowing him personally and professionally, I could not be more proud and happy for our students and the program.”

Founded in 1991, the American University of Armenia (AUA) is a private, independent university located in Yerevan, Armenia, affiliated with the University of California, and accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission in the United States. AUA provides local and international students with Western-style education through top-quality undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs, promotes research and innovation, encourages civic engagement and community service, and fosters democratic values. 

After losing the war, handing over the lands, and giving thousands of victims, when everyone called Nikol Pashinyan a traitor and capitulator of the nation,

there were people who remained in his team and continued to hold office and, equal to Pashinyan, got the label of a traitor. But some got positions after the war. It seemed to people that joining his government instead of leaving Pashinyan after the war was just a career aspiration for a position in a treacherous team at the cost of the loss of the homeland and the blood of thousands of victims, nothing more. Time, however, has shown that this is not always the case.

In some cases, holding a position in Nikol Pashinyan’s team was not careerism and obsession with the throne, but patriotism and even heroism. Of course, we are not talking about the CP members, who are in his team solely for narrow personal interests, but the people who hoped to stop the overthrow of our country in some issues, sometimes holding Pashinyan’s hand, not allowing him to be destructive. errors in the case. And this is especially true of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and diplomats. No matter how much we criticize Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, he was a professional diplomat and tried to play a role in some issues, but resigned after November 9, as there were significant disagreements between him and the Prime Minister. We are also talking about the next Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ara Ayvazyan, who also resigned voluntarily after serving for half a year. that it is powerless to stop Nikol Pashinyan’s destructive foreign policy. We are talking about the diplomats who resigned and left. Deputy Ministers Avet Adonts, Gagik Ghalachyan, Armen Ghevondyan, Artak Apitonyan, Shavarsh Kocharyan, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vahagn Melikyan. These people have resisted the steps taken by the revolutionaries since 2018, tried to stop the processes, now they continue the struggle in the street. Ara Ayvazyan, who recently appeared in Freedom Square, when asked why he agreed to hold the post of minister in Pashinyan’s government, said ․ “I hope you believe that I have taken that position, not leaving the need for a career and promotion.” Gagik Ghalachyan, Armen Ghevondyan, Artak Apitonyan, Shavarsh Kocharyan, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vahagn Melikyan. These people have resisted the steps taken by the revolutionaries since 2018, tried to stop the processes, now they continue the struggle in the street. Ara Ayvazyan, who recently appeared in Freedom Square, when asked why he agreed to hold the post of minister in Pashinyan’s government, said ․ “I hope you believe that I have taken that position, not leaving the need for a career and promotion.” Gagik Ghalachyan, Armen Ghevondyan, Artak Apitonyan, Shavarsh Kocharyan, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vahagn Melikyan. These people have resisted the steps taken by the revolutionaries since 2018, tried to stop the processes, now they continue the struggle in the street. Ara Ayvazyan, who recently appeared in Freedom Square, when asked why he agreed to hold the post of minister in Pashinyan’s government, said ․ “I hope you believe that I have taken that position, not leaving the need for a career and promotion.” why he agreed to hold the post of minister in Pashinyan’s government, said ․ “I hope you believe that I have taken that position, not leaving the need for a career and promotion.” why he agreed to hold the post of minister in Pashinyan’s government, said ․ “I hope you believe that I have taken that position, not leaving the need for a career and promotion.”

In his case, we believe, but it is hard to believe, for example, Mesrop Arakelyan, who held the post of Minister of Social Affairs after the war, who assured us that he had taken that post to alleviate the concerns of our citizens in a difficult social situation after the war and do something useful for Armenia. and for Artsakh. It is true that a few months later he resigned again and left the public administration system, but it is not that he was against Pashinyan’s policy and now he has taken to the streets against handing over Artsakh. Today, he and his party have taken on the role of the opposition that supports Pashinyan more.

SRC Chairman David Ananyan is also one of the officials who worked and resigned during these years. Although he mainly justified Nikol Pashinyan’s policy during his tenure, at some point he showed determination and opposed him, not following Pashinyan’s order to dismiss a customs official at the whim of the Prime Minister. Maybe he had other disagreements with the Prime Minister, so after a while he resigned.

By the way, Ananyan resigned before the war, in 2020. on June 4. In other words, the disagreements were probably conditioned by issues related to the management of the sphere. Arthur Vanetsyan, the director of the National Security Service, and Valeri Osipyan, the police chief, who were among the heroes of 2018 and, it can be said, came to power with Pashinyan, were relieved of their posts about a year before Ananyan.

Of course, they could have stayed and continued in office, but they probably knew more than us and understood better than us where Pashinyan was taking the country. Vanetsyan resigned in 2019 ․ On September 16, in the text of his resignation, he called for “Let my resignation be a sobering step of” Stop! “, The debt to the homeland will win in all other versions.” At that time, very few people understood what Vanetsyan was saying. Three days later, on September 19, Valeri Osipyan also resigned. Today they are both on the street, against Pashinyan and for the sake of Artsakh and Armenia.

Instead of all this, Nikol Pashinyan’s own CP members appeared in his team, who will not oppose his most destructive decisions in any way. Ara Ayvazyan was replaced by Ararat Mirzoyan as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Argishti Kyaramyan instead of investigator Hayk Grigoryan, Rustam Badasyan instead of David Ananyan, Romanos Petrosyan instead of David Sanasaryan.

Vahe Makaryan

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The parents of Armenian soldiers killed in the 2020 war in Artsakh entered the building of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC), a state body overseeing Armenian courts, for a meeting with its chair, Gagik Jhangiryan.

About 60 parents, led by Karin Tonoyan, gathered near the state agency in central Yerevan on Thursday morning to protest against a court decision to bar them from attending hearings on an appeal against the refusal to bring treason charges against PM Nikol Pashinyan.

They demanded a meeting with the SJC chief, who eventually agreed to receive 30 parents.

Aram Vardevanyan, an MP from the opposition Hayastan alliance, said reporters were not let in, adding the parents would raise the issue at the meeting.

The Armenian opposition leaders and supporters marched to the SJC earlier on Thursday to support the protesting parents.

YEREVAN (Azatutyun.am)—Ignoring strong objections from press freedom groups, pro-government lawmakers pushed through Armenia’s parliament on Wednesday a bill that empowered state bodies to withdraw the accreditation of journalists.

An Armenian law on mass media has until now not allowed the parliament, the prime minister’s office and other government agencies to revoke such accreditations typically valid for one year.

Under amendments to the law drafted by two deputies from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party, the authorities will now be able to strip reporters of their press credentials if they are deemed to have violated “working rules” of relevant bodies twice within a year.

The amendments prompted strong criticism from many journalists and media experts when they were first circulated in April. Critics believe that the authorities want to bar “undesirable” journalists from covering parliament sessions, cabinet meetings and other major events.

“Today they may not like the behavior of journalists, tomorrow they may not like the way journalists are dressed, and afterwards they may not like press coverage and criticism of their work,” Ashot Melikyan of the Yerevan-based Committee to Protect Freedom of Speech said after the parliament controlled by the ruling party approved the amendments in the first reading.

Speaking during a parliament debate on Tuesday, Civil Contract’s Artur Hovannisyan, a co-author of the legislation, again denied that it constitutes a new restriction on press freedom in Armenia. He argued that media outlets will be able to quickly replace their reporters stripped of accreditation.

The pro-government lawmaker said earlier that the amendments are primarily directed at parliamentary correspondents. He claimed that they have frequently insulted and even “threatened” members of the National Assembly.

Pashinyan’s political team had already been denounced by Armenian media associations as well as Western watchdogs such as Freedom House and Amnesty International for tripling maximum legal fines for “slander” and making it a crime to insult state officials.

Dozens of government critics have been prosecuted for offending Pashinyan and other officials since the corresponding amendments to the Armenian Criminal Code took effect last September.
Pashinyan’s party was also widely criticized for seriously restricting last summer journalists’ freedom of movements inside the parliament building in Yerevan.

“I will remind those who handed over Shushi and Hadrut with thousands of victims” ․ The coordinator of Robert Kocharyan’s office responds to Pashinyan

Nikol Pashinyan stated today, May 25, during a question-and-answer session in the parliament that by adopting the Madrid document, the Armenian authorities have questioned the referendum on Artsakh’s independence. Yerevan. Today asked Bagrat Mikoyan, the coordinator of the office of the second president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, to comment on Pashinyan’s statement. I would like to remind the author of the words “I want what I want from my own point of view, I negotiate from my own point of view” that gave thousands of victims 15 years after the Madrid document, handed over Shushi and Hadrut, that the co-chairs accept the 1991 document of the Artsakh people. Implementation of international self-determination law through mandatory processes for all. One thing was funny. “The person who turned the Artsakh Republic into a settlement of ‘ethnic Armenians’ by European officials during his tenure introduced a novelty today. “The backpacks could have asked a question, but they did not. “Would you dream of having a solution to the issue according to the Madrid principles today, a document that would not have claimed thousands of victims, the surrender of Shushi and Hadrut, and would have been the internationally recognized independence of Artsakh, if, of course, it is not a Turkish agent?”

In Yerevan, a procession of the Resistance Movement ascended Baghramyan Avenue, passed the National Assembly, and reached the presidential residence.

The protesters stopped there. Several rows of police officers lined up in front of the gates of the residence. Deputies and activists stood between the police and protesters to avoid provocations and incidents.

As previously reported, various departments will be blocked in protest. “Our citizens’ protest means that these departments have not served the interests of Armenia, Artsakh, Armenians for a long time,” said MP from the “Armenia” faction Gegham Manukyan.

Two other entrances to the residence are also blocked.

On the previous day, protesters blocked the Foreign Ministry building.

The Q&A session with the participation of the deputies of the “Armenia” and “I Have Honor” factions will begin at 16:30 on France Square.

The National Assembly is holding a question and answer session with the Government. Opposition factions have not participated in the works of the National Assembly for a month.

This morning participants of the Resistance movement marched from France Square to the presidential residence at 26 Baghramyan Street to block the entrances to the building.

Demonstrators also blocked the entrances to the Security Council building near the presidential residence. After remaining there for about three hours, members of the Resistance movement held a march. At the EU embassy in Armenia, a member of the parliamentary faction “Armenia” Aram Vardevanyan said that the EU embassy does not condemn the violence used against the protesters during the “Resistance” movement.

After a while, the participants of the movement continued the march. Ishkhan Saghatelyan called for closing the Mashtots-Paronyan intersection from all sides. After blockading the intersection for about 30 minutes, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Ishkhan Saghatelyan announced that they were lifting the blockade and moving along Mashtots Avenue toward France Square.

Today’s rally of the Resistance movement will be held on Garegin Nzhdeh Square, at 19:00.

The Armenian law enforcement system has become a tool of growing political persecution and a servant of the Prime Minister’s arbitrariness, all with the permission of the US and EU ambassadors, in fact, Pashinyan’s deputies in Armenia. The loyalty and blind service with which investigators, prosecutors and police have been serving Pashinyan for four years have no definition or justification. Almost excluding the prospect of a change of government, they probably think that not only will they not answer for directly supporting the Prime Minister, but they will also be encouraged. In this case, it is not about inaction, but, on the contrary, about exceeding official powers.

The ranks of law enforcement agencies are surprisingly strong and invulnerable, in contrast to, for example, the internal political crisis that arose after the announcement of the army last year. At that time, as it is known, Pashinyan tried to arrest Onik Gasparyan and his deputies at all costs, but the investigators and prosecutors were quite reasonable, not initiating criminal cases against the highest officers. In those days, in February-March 2021, the General Staff, in fact, the Armenian army was not completely under Pashinyan’s control, and the officer corps demanded his resignation. And since the army did not obey the Prime Minister, the other law enforcement agencies, seeing this, showed some caution.

The NSS and other law enforcement agencies could not carry out the Prime Minister’s order to change the highest military force that came out against him at any cost, at that time Pashinyan was unspeakably weak, and they did not support the weak leader. For weeks, the Prime Minister could not dismiss the Chief of General Staff, moreover, the Artsakh Defense Army also joined his demand for his resignation. It is clear that those calls were not a demand of one day or one person, and the Armenian army was speaking in the person of dozens of generals. No matter how much Pashinyan issued orders from the platform during the gathering of his supporters, insisted that Gasparyan’s powers were terminated, at first he was unwavering, he did not leave. It was not clear who would dare to arrest the current head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces in his office if he did not resign. It would be logical to assume that the one with the largest army would win in that resistance,

After all, it was not the conflict between the deserter Pashinyan and Colonel-General Gasparyan, but the conflict between the government and the armed forces. The army had stated that as a result of the inefficient management of this government group, the state was collapsing, that is, it had registered the current situation. However, As a result of his short-sighted steps, Onik Gasparyan was eventually removed from office, and almost all the high-ranking military men who joined the statement are now neutralized, moreover, some of them have come to terms with Pashinyan’s rule. As a result, from his role as the head of security, the Ministry of Defense has become another link in satisfying the ambitions of the ruling party elite, which has undermined the same security.

Instead of standing up immediately after the defeat and pointing out the real culprit, the army command preferred to shelter Pashinyan under his roof, but when he decided to speak, he became the victim of the revenge of the leader he had saved. The same fate awaits Prosecutor General Arthur Davtyan, NSS Director Armen Abazyan, Police Chief Vahe Ghazaryan, Chairman of the Investigative Committee Argishti Kyaramyan and Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Committee Sasun Khachatryan. All these figures will be sacrificed at the right time as scapegoats who once saved Pashinyan’s skin ․ Onik Gasparyan is a witness.

David Sargsyan

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