On the fourth day of the election campaign, in Lori Province, 168.am’s camera spotted rows of cars transporting a large number of representatives of Nikol Pashinyan’s “mobile demonstrators” and administrative resources in Metsavan village.
Today Nikol Pashinyan is trying to hold a campaign meeting in Lori Province. After yesterday’s fiasco in Shirak Province where the ruling party failed to get the impression of a more or less big crowd of people, even after gathering “mobile” participants of the meeting, particularly in the city of Gyumri, today, in essence, the ruling party has decided to double the number of “supporters” who are leaving for Lori Province.
During a campaign meeting in the city of Talin of Aragatsotn Province of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan reminded that even though, before the revolution in 2018, he had said there wouldn’t be crackdowns on personnel and vendettas, he has changed his mind, meaning there will be crackdowns on personnel, and the crackdowns will be on officials who, taking advantage of the opportunities granted to them after the revolution in 2018, took shelter in the ‘corridors of the power of the people’ and have been playing the role of the ‘Trojan Horse’ during the past three years.
Serviceman of the Armenian Armed Forces A. Katanyan, disoriented due to fog on June 8, has found himself in the territory under the control of the Azerbaijani armed forces.
Former Foreign Minister of Armenia Ara Ayvazian had resigned a week ago.
Thousands of my teammates, including many present here, keep asking me whether opportunists will again be indulged in our ranks due to my forgiveness or perhaps insufficient memory. Let me put it this way: against the backdrop of such a tremendous national crisis, when war is declared on our state both inside and outside, we must ignore everything except to make the outcome of the war in our favor.
Today acting Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan paid visits to the cities of Artashat and Masis. Pashinyan is holding meetings with his supporters (he is holding his election campaign) and visiting provinces with the accompaniment of official state cars and several bodyguards.
The criminal cases against 16 Armenian servicemen, as well as the torture and psychological pressure of other Armenian prisoners of war and captured civilians set a precedent for a malicious violation of international law. It is clear that Azerbaijan instrumentalizes the captured people as political hostages and tools to pursue other goals.
Armenian human rights advocates have published videos on social media about unidentified soldiers who may have been taken captive by the Azerbaijani side, asking to contact them if they recognize the persons or the location in the videos.
Today a representative of the authorities committed another sensational act of obstructing the professional activities of a journalist — Hayk Sargsyan, a nicknamed deputy of the ruling My Step faction of the National Assembly of Armenia, snatched the mobile phone of reporter for Hraparak Armenian Daily AnushDashtents, who was trying to ask him a question, and returned the mobile phone after a while.
