PASHINYAN’S “REAL ARMENIA”: LEGAL INCAPACITY AND POLITICAL MANIPULATION
As part of the Civil Contract Party’s pre-election campaign, Nikol Pashinyan and his team are traveling across the country on a “happy bus,” distributing pin badges depicting the map of Armenia within the borders of the Armenian SSR. Pashinyan wore one during his meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow. This gesture is presented as a symbol of the so-called “Real Armenia.” However, such outward pomposity raises an important question: is this idea legally viable, and what does it have to do with reality?

