by The Armenian Mirror-Spectator
What is happening in Armenia is becoming quite dangerous. Is it possible that Prime Minister Pashinyan has started to become delusional?
Let us observe his recent actions carefully. He officially declares that those same very well-known benefactors of Holy Echmiadzin, who are in fact its most reliable defenders, aim to take the Mother See, along with its treasures, out of Armenia.
In another instance, Pashinyan, who promotes himself everywhere as a hero and defender of canons and rules of the Church, has in fact lived comfortably with his partner, contrary to the canons of the Armenian Church, for more than a quarter of a century, and, as a result, actually became the father of four children. Yet now, suddenly, he has decided to finally “legalize” his cohabitation and has announced that he is having according to state law (not church canons), a civil wedding. Evidently, all this is done in order to diminish the current appropriate, but perhaps unseemly, public conversations concerning him and his partner, as well as to justify his otherwise constitutionally illegitimate and absurd claim to be a so-called “reformer” of the church.
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By now, the readers of these lines have certainly witnessed his recent interview with a group of reporters. Apparently running out of slanders against the Armenian Church leadership, this time he tried, invoking his “prime ministerial capacity,” to convince the journalists, as part of a long series of questions and answers, that he is well informed that the main goal and nefarious plan of those well-known diasporan Armenian personalities who are these days coming out with appeals in defense of our two-thousand-year-old Armenian Church, the Mother See and the Catholicos of All Armenians, is to take Holy Echmiadzin, along with its treasures, out of Armenia to an as yet unknown foreign destination – Vienna, Moscow, or who knows where else…
Naturally, when Prime Minister Pashinyan, apparently having no other choice left, is forced to stoop to this level and publicly utter such an evident blatant lie, furthermore trying to disguise it with a fake smile on his face, there is no other explanation left for sane and rational Armenians, except to conclude that either the man in question is in a worryingly mentally unbalanced state (considering also this sudden very much “delayed” decision, after more than 25 years, to marry legally) or he is under such heavy pressure from his Turkish and Azerbaijani patrons that he does not hesitate to fabricate such a clearly ridiculous lie.
With this lie, he evidently does not hesitate to even take the risk of losing the respect that a small number of Armenians may have for him as prime minister.
The sad thing is that we live in such an awful environment of disinformation nearly everywhere, that it cannot be excluded that there probably still be believers, even when Pashinyan might say (an Armenian saying) that “a four-legged donkey has been discovered that flies with two wings.”
Surely enough, and sadly, already without delay, proponents of “conspiracy theories” have already begun to appear, who do not exclude the hypothesis that “Pashinyan probably has National Security Service secret recordings that confirm these allegations to ‘smuggle out’ Holy Echmiadzin.”
It is a pity that what has taken place is not merely an entertaining small incident. It is very painful for any informed Armenian in such troubled times to see a person bearing the status of prime minister of Armenia ready to degrade himself this much by publicly uttering such a great lie.
Indeed, it must be assumed that Pashinyan does not realize that henceforth no other statement or “promise” by a prime minister who officially tells such a pitifully ridiculous lie can have anymore any meaning or value for any knowledgeable Armenian.
As for foreigners, what we Armenians may consider ridiculous, or in essence a rather a mortal sin, leaves them of course completely indifferent, as long as Pashinyan is a willing puppet in their hands who faithfully carries out their orders.
The fact is that Turks and the Azerbaijanis have already succeeded so easily, to erase our holy Ararat and the just cause of one and a half million martyrs, the Genocide, from the official records, discourse and agenda of Armenia. Furthermore now, they are unceasingly on the path to impoverishing and dismantling the centuries-old structure of the Armenian Apostolic Church, thanks to the same Pashinyan. For its part, America has nearly succeeded as a superpower in creating a new and deep rift on the southwestern borders of its rival Russia.
If any other being could ever “deliver” such great “achievements” to those countries so easily, they certainly would promise “peace” in that region, such that the work for them of such a convenient servant would not be disturbed…
Let’s face it, of the great powers, who does care about Ararat, the Genocide, or the institution of the Armenian Church and its so-called “reform needs”? For foreigners, we wretched beings called Armenians, will just clamor for a little while. In Armenia, which by this process may soon become Western Azerbaijan, a significant number of Armenians living there are always busy feasting and reciting thunderous toasts to the homeland. On the other hand, as for the so-called diaspora, when the third generation following the Genocide, as well, leaves this earthly life and passes on to eternity, absolute silence and tranquility will reign there too.
In short, this is what peace at all costs is worth… yes, peace and deadly silence in Armenia and the Diaspora, throughout the world, thanks to Nikol Pashinyan and his associates.
Shame, a thousand times shame for all of us if we allow such to become our end.
(Translation of the Armenian-language editorial which appeared in Baikar in its February 23, 2026 issue no. 8 (463.)