He also added that the continuing silence of most western International Religious Freedom advocates testifies to the declining political independence and credibility of a once vibrant human rights movement.
John Eibner, American human rights activist and the President of the Christian Solidarity International (CSI) human rights organization, has addressed Nikol Pashinyan’s Soviet-style persecution of the Armenian Apostolic Church on the orders of Recep Erdogan of Turkey and Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan on his X post.
Here—this is where things get more interesting. We’ll speak about this shortly, but note the following: the letter to the Prosecutor General’s Office was sent by Gabrielyan and Alen Simonyan; the crime report was filed to the Anti-Corruption Committee by Prosecutor General Anna Vardapetyan; Gabrielyan even posted the scanned document on Facebook, and Simonyan shared it.
“The European Union is going to support Armenia in countering possible hybrid threats ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled for 2026, as well as in strengthening cybersecurity,” during a meeting with a group of Armenian journalists in Brussels, the EU Commissioner for Enlargement Policy, Marta Kos, stated.
The political prisoner Narek Samsonyan’s wife publicly addressed to the EU Ambassador Vassilis Maragos. The footage of the address as well as the text on paper will be handed over to the EU headquarter in Yerevan by the Antifake.am editorial staff.
The editorial staff of AntiFake.am has sent a letter to the US Ambassador to Armenia, urgently appealing to her regarding political persecution, Unlawful Detentions, and obstruction of Media Freedom in Armenia.
The political prisoner Narek Samsonyan’s wife publicly addressed to the US Ambassador to Armenia Kristina Kvein. The footage of the address as well as the text on paper will be handed over to the Embassy by the Antifake.am editorial staff.
This year, the Yerevan municipality planned to purchase 45 trolleybuses with its own funds. But now it turns out they have no money, so the purchase will be made with state budget funds—while the city can allocate huge sums to various NGOs and known or unknown organizations.
Prior to sanctions imposed on Russia, the company had comparatively modest tax obligations, but in recent years it has contributed tens of billions in taxes derived not from domestic production but from import-export operations. While these payments inflate budgetary figures, they do not substantively benefit the domestic economy or citizens. This mechanism enables the authorities to present the fiscal situation as favorable while masking structural weaknesses.
