Yesterday, Ruben Vardanyan had a phone conversation with his eldest son, David.According to Ruben, he is expected to be given the opportunity to make his final statement in court in the nearest future. In his remarks, he intends to emphasize the following:
Serzh Sargsyan, the third President of the Republic of Armenia (2008-2018), responded to the Armenian government’s publication of a package of negotiation documents related to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Dr. Arthur Khachikyan, PhD in Political Science from Stanford University, discussed the persecution of the Armenian Apostolic Holy Church by Nikol Pashinyan’s government, Pashinyan’s disgraceful anti-church campaign, and also the possible implications of the new US National Security Strategy by the Trump Administration for Armenia with Dr. John Eibner, American human rights activist and the President of Christian Solidarity International (CSI) human rights organization John Eibner.
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.
“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.
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.
Recalling that today marks the end of the Somme offensive in 1916, which caused hundreds of thousands of casualties in the British, French and German armies, War Veteran noted that after that in fact the United States was dragged into the First World War, and in Colonel Macgregor’s judgement, this was the beginning of everything goes wrong in the History of European Civilization.
At the end of the interview, Amsterdam urged the public to read the 61-page White Paper titled “Nikol Pashinyan and the Persecution of Samvel Karapetyan and the Armenian Apostolic Holy Church,” available online at “freekarapetyan.com.”
L’ARMÉNIE EST DEVENUE L’OTAGE D’UNE GUERRE GÉOPOLITIQUE CYNIQUE: TIGRAN YEGAVIAN & ARTHUR KHACHIKIAN