Monday, May 18 2020 12:54

ArmInfo. The press secretary of the Prime Minister of Armenia, Mane Gevergyan, harshly condemned the publications of some media that Nikol Pashinyan's grandfather collaborated with the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War.

Gevorgyan's comment was spread by the Armenian Foreign Ministry.

The press secretary, in particular, noted that on May 9, when the  75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War was  celebrated, the atmosphere of the common holiday was overshadowed by  the publications of some media outlets that circulated information  about the grandfather of the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol  Pashinyan.  <These materials make reference to the Memorial database  created by the Russian Ministry of Defense, which states that a  certain Nikolai Vartanovich Pashinyan, who, according to the authors,  is the grandfather of the Prime Minister of Armenia, fought against  the Red Army in the ranks of the Wehrmacht.

Meanwhile, the head of the Armenian government on his official  Facebook page posted a photo of his grandfather with the inscription  "Nikol Arakelovich Pashinyan". His name can also be found in the  aforementioned database of the Russian Ministry of Defense with the  military rank of sergeant of the Red Army>, Gevorgyan said.

The spokeswoman said that the very fact that data was taken as the  basis that were not subjected to a detailed study for reliability,  speaks either of negligent attitude or bias data publications.

<We regret that some authoritative Russian media published unverified  materials of this kind using rhetoric that is deliberately  disseminated by certain circles for purely political purposes. Even  the most superficial analysis of distribution channels indicates that  the initiators of this falsification aim to drive a wedge into the  Armenian-Russian fraternity, and to achieve this goal they do not  disdain frank lies and insinuations against veterans and heroes of  the Great Patriotic War.

The dissemination of such false information defaming the memory of a  veteran who fought for his homeland, especially on the anniversary of  the Great Victory, is blatant sacrilege and extremely unacceptable>,  Mane Gevorgyan concluded. It should be noted that a number of Russian  and Azerbaijani media recently reported that the grandfather of the  Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan allegedly fought on the  side of the Nazis.