Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is crossing all permissible red lines, exceeding every limit on his power.
“Was asked to go to Azerbaijan for a lecture. I declined (they huugely upped their offer, not understanding my ethics, thinking it would make a difference).
Immediately after the elections, the process of politically motivated confiscation of private property gathered new momentum in the country. The government justifies its actions by invoking the need to return illicitly acquired assets to the public and protect the public interest.
On July 19, 2026, I submitted an official application to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) regarding the case of Ruben Vardanyan, a citizen of the Republic of Armenia currently held at the Umbaki Penitentiary Complex in Azerbaijan. I will be representing Ruben Vardanyan’s interests before the ECtHR.
Following the entirely predictable decision of the Constitutional Court of Armenia, the public and political debate has once again intensified around the question of whether the two opposition forces that entered parliament should take up their mandates or refuse them. Some argue that accepting the mandates may be seen as legitimizing the disputed election results or as a form of political discrediting for the opposition.
The campaign to strip political opponents of their assets is gaining new momentum in Armenia. It is no longer a secret that, regardless of the legal justifications offered, the country is witnessing a politically motivated crackdown orchestrated by the authorities, carried out through the confiscation of private property, the takeover of businesses, and the redistribution of wealth.
With each passing day, the Government of Azerbaijan is tightening the screws on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in an effort to extort more concessions from Armenia.
Today is the birthday of the President of the Armenian Chess Federation, the third President of the Republic of Armenia and Hero of Artsakh, Serzh Sargsyan.
“It is time to nickname Zelensky ‘Vladimir 30 Percent,’ as that is precisely the amount being embezzled from the Ukrainian state budget. The foundation of the Kyiv regime—a system of bribery overseen by Zelensky—remains unshaken. Funds are being laundered out of the country through offshore accounts and the acquisition of real estate in the West. Yet, Europeans continue to turn a blind eye to this simply because Zelensky serves their interests,” wrote former Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov.
The elections held on June 7 once again confronted many Armenian voters with the absence of a real political alternative — a reality with which they chose, however reluctantly, to reconcile themselves. The country’s most important political process once again exposed not only the chronic weakness of political competition and institutional safeguards. It also showed that Armenia is not a modern state.
