{"id":6327,"date":"2025-09-14T12:49:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armtribunal.com\/?p=6327"},"modified":"2025-09-14T15:29:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T12:29:45","slug":"sluzhiteli-izmennikov-chast-1-artur-vanecjan-predatelstvo-chesti-ne-imeet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armtribunal.com\/en\/2025\/09\/14\/sluzhiteli-izmennikov-chast-1-artur-vanecjan-predatelstvo-chesti-ne-imeet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Servants of Traitors. Part 1: Artur Vanetsyan \u2013 Treason Knows No Dignity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Servants of Traitors. Part 1: Artur Vanetsyan \u2013 Treason Knows No Dignity<\/h2>
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\"We have no nobility, no leaders, no governors. What we do have are merchants and clergy. The merchants are garbage, and the clergy have always stood against human freedom. Those responsible for our security are nothing but a criminal gang.\"<\/p>\n

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The loss of the homeland, the deportation of the Armenian population, the innocent lives taken, the desecrated sanctuaries\u2026 These are not references to the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire, which Armenians around the world commemorate every year on April 24. These words speak to the national tragedy Armenians are living through today - marked by the 44-day war of 2020 and the loss of Artsakh in 2023.\nWe have already detailed how such a catastrophe became possible in our previous articles, focusing on the roles of Serzh Sargsyan<\/a> and Nikol Pashinyan<\/a> in this ongoing national disaster. Now, the Public Tribunal project is launching a new series of articles exposing those who served as pillars propping up the regime of high treason - those who, in pursuit of personal gain and in order to preserve their positions and ill-gotten wealth, executed criminal orders and directives, betraying the oath they once swore to the Motherland. \nOne such figure is Artur Vanetsyan<\/a>, former Director of the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia (hereinafter \u2013 RA NSS).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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According to his official biography, in 2018 - at the time of the so-called \u201cVelvet Revolution,\u201d orchestrated by Serzh Sargsyan and staged by Nikol Pashinyan - Artur Vanetsyan served as Deputy Head of the Yerevan Department of the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia (RA NSS). This position placed him among the most well-informed individuals in the country.\n\nWith access to the NSS archives and classified operational data, Vanetsyan could not have been unaware of the true objectives behind the so-called \u201crevolution of love and solidarity.\u201d Nor could he have ignored the murky backgrounds of Pashinyan\u2019s closest associates - some of whom, as it later emerged, had ties to Turkish intelligence. One such example is Armenia\u2019s current Foreign Minister, Ararat Mirzoyan - a fact exposed by Armenia\u2019s former ambassador to the Vatican, Mikael Minasyan<\/a>, following the 2020 war.\nWe do not believe Minasyan had direct access to classified NSS files. But his friend, Vanetsyan - a high-ranking chekist (security officer) - certainly did. \n\nFollowing the \u201cVelvet Revolution,\u201d on May 10, 2018, at the request of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and by decree of the President of Armenia, Artur Vanetsyan was appointed Director of the National Security Service (RA NSS). When introducing the newly appointed director to the NSS leadership, Pashinyan openly praised the \u201cservices\u201d rendered by the NSS during the so-called \u201cvelvet\u201d revolution.<\/p>\n

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\"The world is genuinely surprised and even admiring of how political changes in our country took place without a single drop of blood being shed\u2014without serious clashes or casualties. People wonder how, after such a transformation, it is love and solidarity\u2014not revenge\u2014that prevail in the country. Each of us has contributed to this process, and the role of the NSS has been far from secondary,\" the Prime Minister said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Given that the key events of the \u201cVelvet Revolution\u201d unfolded in the capital, Pashinyan\u2019s words of gratitude were directed, among others, at Artur Vanetsyan.<\/p>\n

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Security Agencies as Tools of PR and Repression of Nikol Pashinyan\u2019s Political Rivals<\/h3>
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The criminal case related to the events of March 1, 2008, has become one of Nikol Pashinyan\u2019s key tools for manipulating public opinion, initiating political persecutions, and consolidating his grip on power. Following Pashinyan\u2019s rise to power and the appointment of a new NSS director in July 2018, this controversial case became the focal point of Armenia\u2019s domestic political developments.\nDespite Pashinyan\u2019s public assurances that there would be no vendetta against former officials, the country soon witnessed politically motivated criminal prosecutions.<\/p>\n

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On July 28, 2018, the Yerevan Court ordered the arrest of former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan in connection with the violent suppression of the March 1, 2008 protests. The second President of Armenia was charged as part of the criminal case concerning the mass unrest that took place in Yerevan in 2008.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n