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Pashinyan doesn't even remember the names of his advisors and assistants: "Hraparak"

  • Writer: Lida Nalbandyan
    Lida Nalbandyan
  • Feb 26
  • 2 min read

The daily "Hraparak" writes: Since ancient times, it has been customary in Armenia to dismiss a high-ranking official, appointing him as an advisor or assistant in order to receive a high salary from the state. Nikol Pashinyan does the same: in order not to leave his own people unemployed, not to embarrass them, not to fill the ranks of the opposition, he appoints himself as an advisor and assistant. They say that he does not even know some of them, does not remember the names of some and sees them only occasionally.

Nikol Pashinyan has two main advisors: former minister Artak Kamalyan, former regional governor and deputy prime minister Hambardzum Matevosyan. The other advisors are former regional governor of Lori Aram Khachatryan, former chief of staff of Kocharyan, former ambassador to Iran under Serzh Sargsyan Artashes Tumanyan, and one non-governmental advisor, Suren Maghakyan, whose biography is unknown, whose only position was the editor-in-chief of the somewhat unknown “Full Life” weekly.

Pashinyan also has 4 assistants: Arsen Mikhailov, an Assyrian by nationality, Gagik Isakhanyan, a dentist, former governor Davit Gevorgyan, and Karine Davoyan, a translator of international news for the AlikMedia news agency. In fact, Pashinyan has 5 advisors and 4 assistants. We cannot fail to mention the Prime Minister’s spokesperson Nazeli Baghdasaryan, who was a CP MP, then was appointed Shirak governor, then Pashinyan’s assistant, and now the press spokesperson. Baghdasaryan differs from all previous spokespersons of all prime ministers in that she does not communicate with journalists, does not answer their calls, but accompanies the Prime Minister everywhere and even participates in important official meetings, but no one knows what role she plays in our reality. All these people, let us recall, receive huge salaries for doing nothing, simply because Nikol Pashinyan allowed them to live well at the expense of the state budget. It is not clear what advice they give the prime minister, what they help him with, if he makes so many mistakes, takes the wrong approach on many issues, and does not admit any of his mistakes.

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