My Turn
Armenia pays U.S. public relations firm to attack the Armenian Apostolic Church
Last week, I came across a disturbing eight-page document described as a “White Paper” titled “Clarifying Church-State Relations in Armenia: A Rebuttal to the Narrative of Religious Persecution under Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.” It is dated Sept. 5, 2025.
This is a blatant attempt by the Pashinyan regime to whitewash its shameful attacks on the Armenian Apostolic Church, making unfounded allegations about Church leaders and the political opposition.
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It is unbelievable, Pashinyan sees his domestic opponents as the enemy instead of Azerbaijan and Turkey. Let that sink in. What if US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt during WW2 viewed domestic opponents as the enemy instead of the true enemies Nazi Germany and Japan? Where would we be now?
A few days ago, a friend of mine had forward me California Courrier depicting Harut Sassounian’s editorial. I was expecting that it will be soon posted in the Armenian Weekly and in the rest of the ARF family press, including maybe Kantsasar, the Aleppo Community’s newsletter which seems, over its many existential issues we are told to help overcome, is also concerned about the state of Samvel Karapetyan.
Yes, it would not surprise me that Armenian government has hired a PR firm to counter the relentless attack against it by the opposition through established globally wide reaching PR firms, such Robert Amsterdam’s firm, Amsterdam & Partners, Carlson Tucker, and his show etc. Let us be reminded that the Armenian and Russian-Armenian oligarchs ,who vehemently oppose and are set to bring the Nikol Pashinyan government down, have much more discretionary spending than the Armenian Government itself, whose 2026 budget voted is a mere 10 billion dollars to attend to its 3 million or so citizens.