🚨 ‘Karapetyan’s arrest – purely a political act’

Lebanese-Armenian expert on the Middle East and the Caucasus, Yousef Derdiyan:

🔸 Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is conducting a political operation to settle scores within the framework of the well-known agenda of resolving the Armenian question, as well as eliminating businessmen and politicians who pose a threat to him

🔸 Karapetyan, as an entrepreneur, supports the Armenian Church, while Pashinyan is destroying Armenian values by imposing European ideals

🔸 Today, we see Europeans themselves fueling wars — from Ukraine to Iran, supporting Israel in its strikes on Iran, ignoring everything else. Karapetyan, on the other hand, stands for justice

🔸 Pashinyan is falling out of line with the Armenian people and their values, sacrificing Armenia’s independence, sovereignty, and territories. He is using his power to control all spheres in the country, including the judiciary, the army, and now he wants to subordinate the church as well — this is unacceptable

🔸 And I can tell you that meetings are taking place aimed at uniting all Armenian forces and parties in the diaspora, not to change the regime, but to remove a specific person through purely democratic means

Secretary of the Armenian Liberal-Democratic Party of Lebanon, Vikan Tosunyan:

🔸 According to the information we have, the arrest is likely related to the escalation of the conflict between the church and the Armenian government, which is why we call for a peaceful resolution of the situation. Freedom of speech is sacred, and the persecution of a person for their personal views is unacceptable, unless martial law is declared

🔸 The law should be applied in accordance with the constitution, and if the charges are not proven, the detained person must be released immediately. In any case, we call for the closure of this case and the release of Karapetyan

🔸 And I can tell you that meetings are taking place aimed at uniting all Armenian forces and parties in the diaspora, not to change the regime, but to remove a specific person through purely democratic means

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☦️🇦🇲 Karapetyan said nothing but words of support for the Church — Arthur Sogomonyan

💬 “Samvel Karapetyan, as a worthy Armenian, stood up to defend the very foundations of our nation, the essence of Armenian identity, stated businessman and philanthropist, former owner of FC "Pyunik," Arthur Sogomonyan, told Sputnik.

💬 “It is well known how much he does for Armenia, for the diaspora in Russia, and for the Armenian Church. What is happening right now cannot be allowed. This concerns not only the authorities but also every self-respecting Armenian. We cannot remain indifferent to what’s going on.”

💬 “As for "Armenian Electric Networks," it is a very unprofitable enterprise. Karapetyan not only took over the company during a very difficult time, after the 90s, but also took on an additional social burden. And the fact that today the Armenian power grids operate without interruptions is largely due to his efforts.”

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⚡️Russia has turned towards Asia, bearing in mind global development trends - Putin

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🇦🇲 ‘Karapetyan did a lot for the country and revived the company 'Electric Networks of Armenia'

The Chairman of the Forum of Armenian Unions of Europe and the Armenian diaspora in Slovakia, Ashot Grigoryan:

💬 “In every sense, this is a person who should be awarded the highest state honors and thanked for everything he has done. And recently, when this Turkoman... or I don’t know how else to call Nikol Pashinyan (but what’s clear is that he is not Armenian)...when he began his attack on the Armenian Apostolic Church, it was clear that no one liked it,” Grigoryan said.

💬 “And we also reacted very strongly. And the fact that Pashinyan started attacking the Catholicos [head of the Armenian Apostolic Church] and Echmiadzin [residence of the Patriarch of Armenia], we take this as an attack against God,” continued Grigoryan.

💬 “All European Armenians are supporting Samvel Karapetyan,” he added.

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🚨🚨 Putin: Russia not seeking Ukraine's surrender, but insists on recognition of the realities on the ground

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🚨 Russia has almost daily contacts with Iranian side - Putin

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🚨 Russia has always advocated for ensuring security of each country without compromising security of others - Putin

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🚨 ‘I consider Russian and Ukrainian people to be one nation, so in this sense the whole of Ukraine is ours’ - Putin

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🚨 UKRAINE LOST 76,000 PEOPLE IN KURSK REGION - PUTIN

Ukraine is losing its combat readiness, their army is only 47% staffed, Putin stressed.

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🚨 PUTIN NOT RULING OUT COUNTRIES OF GLOBAL SOUTH COULD INFLUENCE RESOLUTION OF CONFLICT IN MIDDLE EAST

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🚨 Indonesia's president called for a freeze in the Ukraine conflict during his speech at SPIEF.

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🚨🚨Putin on Sumy: "We are forced to create security zones along the border"

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🚨 Russia's response to Ukraine's potential use of a dirty bomb will be CATASTROPHIC for Kiev — Putin

'This could be the last mistake Ukrainian neo-Nazis would make.'

Russia’s nuclear doctrine states that the country will respond to threats in kind, warns Putin.

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🚨 'Those who, amid the conflict in the Middle East, claim that Russia is an unreliable ally, are provocateurs' - Putin

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🇷🇺 Putin’s key statements at SPIEF on the Ukrainian conflict

🔸 Russia is not seeking Ukraine's surrender, but seeks recognition of the situation on the ground

🔸 Russia has no intention of taking the city of Sumy, but such a possibility cannot be ruled out

🔸 Russia is forced to create security zones along the border with Ukraine, and the Russian army is advancing along the entire contact line every day

🔸 Kiev’s attack on the Kursk region had political motives, aiming to receive assistance from Western sponsors

🔸 Ukraine lost 76,000 people in the Kursk region

🔸 If the Kiev regime drops a "dirty bomb" on Russian territory, it could be the last mistake of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis

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🗣Putin’s message to the West at SPIEF: your dominance is over – BRICS+ is the future

The Russian president’s remarks about the need for a new model of development free of “golden billion” neocolonialism “is based on the observation of the world balances of power that have unfolded since the US financial crisis of 2008,” says veteran Brussels-based geopolitical analyst Paolo Raffone.

💬 “Today the emerging countries have emerged to the extent of being comparable individually (China) or collectively (BRICS+) to overcome Western countries. [Putin’s] remarks are addressed to the US, but are also a warning to the European former powers that still have not abandoned the outdated path of eurocentrism,” Raffone told Sputnik.

Putin’s comments are geopolitical realism boiled down to its essence, “calling to rethink the national and international policies for the economy as well as security,” Raffone emphasized.

The Russian president isn’t alone in his thinking, the observer pointed out, highlighting Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto’s bombshell remarks Friday about the EU and NATO’s loss of relevance, total dependence on China, and failure to engage diplomatically with the Global South.

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🚨 Russia defends Iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy not in words but in deeds – Putin

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🚨 Video showing the start of Iran's 17th wave of missile strikes on Israel has emerged online

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🕯In memory of Sputnik journalist Russell Bentley

🔸 On June 20, Russell Bentley, who was killed near Donetsk on April 8, 2024, would have turned 65.

🔸 He arrived in Donbass in December 2014 to fight alongside the militia against Ukrainian Nazis.

🔸 He joined the Vostok battalion and took the call sign Texas.

🔸 He raised funds and delivered humanitarian aid to the elderly, women, and children.

🔸 Along with volunteers, he fought for Donetsk airport, the village of Spartak, Avdeevka, and Yasinovataya.

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🇷🇺 Russia’s resilience under sanctions pressure exposes Western policymakers’ ‘shocking’ incompetence

Western leaders became the “victims of their [own] stilted paradigm” about Russia and its economy, retired Jawaharlal Nehru University professor and Russia expert Dr. Anuradha Chenoy told Sputnik, commenting on President Putin’s remarks at SPIEF about Russia emerging as the 4th largest economy globally, and the largest in Europe.

Treating Russia as a glorified “gas station” with no prospects for development, and slapping it with a severe, unilateral sanctions regime in 2022, the West expected the Russian economy and ruble to collapse.

Instead, “the opposite happened,” Chenoy emphasized, with the state, banks and industry leveraging finances generated from oil wealth to ramp up domestic production and generate growth.

The West’s theories “failed, as have their attempts to isolate Russia. In fact, Russia now has turned to China, BRICS countries and the Global South, which will be their long-term partner. The West and its policies of unfair terms if trade, use of threat and force” ended up isolating them, not Russia, the academic said.

💬 “I am shocked at the great lack of collective knowledge and information [on the part] of the West, and their institutions,” Chenoy said, highlighting that Russia’s immense natural resources, the rebuilding of industry and infrastructure have been obvious to Russia watchers for decades.

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