Real and Fake Nikol Pashinyan: '168 Hours'

'168 Hours' newspaper reports that 'Something is clearly amiss in Armenia. Instead of working, the Prime Minister is writing poetry and, in addition to poetry, he is also issuing instructions to initiate criminal proceedings against one of his relatives. The goal is obvious: to ensure the next act in the global show he orchestrates.

Thus, Armenia lives every day with a scene from this show. While the public enjoys these scenes without bread, extraordinary events occur every day in the country.

Yesterday it became known that the State Revenue Committee had initiated a criminal case against one of Armenia's largest companies, 'Spayka', for allegedly failing to pay 7 billion drams in taxes. The leadership of 'Spayka' denies the charges, stating that this is persecution by the SRC against the company.

'The investigator said, either you sign or you'll be arrested,' the director of 'Spayka' recounted in a conversation with journalists.

'Spayka' is a company that is 'sitting on top of' almost the entire agriculture of Armenia. And yesterday, the company's director announced that if the persecution continues, 'Spayka' will stop buying from farmers. This could lead the agricultural sector to a collapse.

But while the director of 'Spayka' spoke about the fabricated charges against his company, a truly historic event was taking place in the National Assembly of Armenia: Under the applause from the hall, a former male representative with a woman’s name, a transgender, was speaking not for himself but on behalf of the transgender community.

As the public was digesting this earth-shattering event, the head of the NSS, Arthur Vanetsyan, made an appearance, announcing that they had begun implementing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's directive to combat fake Facebook users and had arrested a fake user operating under the name 'Dukhove Armenia, Open Society.'

Throughout this time, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was in Gyumri, seemingly unaware of everything. He was being filmed in the next staged scenes on the streets of Gyumri, likely contemplating his next poem.

Something is clearly off in Armenia.' For further details, see today's edition of the newspaper.