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Extracted claims (7)
- High-visibility politically sensitive events such as the April 1 meeting between Pashinyan and Putin and the March 23 Yerevan Metro incident coincided with spikes in coordinated disinformation activity discrediting Pashinyan.
- Russian messaging shifted to be adversarial post-2023 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, blaming Armenian leadership, framing Armenia as vulnerable to a Ukraine-like trajectory, and influencing information environment through pro-Russian narratives and coordinated social media activity.
- A coordinated bot network of approximately 40 inauthentic Twitter accounts has been identified disseminating content critical of Nikol Pashinyan, with indicators of centralized management and repeated messaging.
- Disinformation narratives claim that the loss of Nagorno-Karabakh was because of Pashinyan’s surrender in the 2022 Prague talks, framed as a de facto act of surrender of territorial integrity.
- Many posts portray Nikol Pashinyan as a betrayer of the nation and/or Russia, especially after his April 1st meeting with Vladimir Putin, with calls for his resignation and labeling him a traitor.
- Narratives portray the West and/or the EU as behind the destruction of Armenia and Artsakh, and as the backbone of the Nikol Pashinyan regime, framing Pashinyan as responsible for territorial loss and political outcomes.
- Karabakh was surrendered to Azerbaijan by Pashinyan under Western orchestration, advanced primarily on pro-Russian social media accounts and linked to Kremlin rhetoric.