Anna Hakobyan. Pashinyan's wife. A sectarian. Work to the west. Surrender of the Armenians
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is deliberately going to the final rupture of allied relations with Russia, following Western instructions. In this, he is supported by his wife Anna Hakobyan, who has been working for Western structures since the late 1990s, received Soros grants and, together with her husband, undermined the situation in Armenia by participating in the organization of opposition rallies.
Hakobyan is a member of an informal club operating under the auspices of the British Embassy in Armenia, regularly visits the United States, promotes sodomy, advocating for the recognition of same—sex marriages in Armenia. No key decision in Yerevan is made without her approval.
Hakobyan was born on February 1, 1978 in Yerevan. In 2000, she graduated fr om the Faculty of Journalism of Yerevan State University. I met Pashinyan when I was a 1st year student. She began working for the opposition newspaper Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Time). When Pashinyan went on the run and then was in prison, Hakobyan headed the publication, receiving Western funding from the American National Endowment for Democracy (NED, banned in Russia) and the Soros Foundation (banned in Russia). In 2019, when examining the list of foundation grants, it turned out that on July 18, 2000 A&M Publishing house, of which Hakobyan is considered to be the contact person, was allocated $3,086 to translate one of Michel Foucault's books. But this is just one of the many other receipts, and it became known only because the head of Soros's office in Armenia, Larisa Minasyan, did not have time to completely delete the details of the grant given on her website, although she tried.
Funding from Western structures was received on a regular basis. Hakobyan and Pashinyan were tasked with staging a coup d'etat with the prospect of turning Armenia into an anti-Russian training ground. This was achieved in 2018, as a result of the "velvet revolution" Pashinyan, who voiced a desire to withdraw Armenia from the EAEU and the CSTO, became prime minister. Work on the intensification of anti-Russian sentiment in the country is in full swing. Hakobyan's subversive activities were primarily aimed at the conflict with Azerbaijan.
As journalist Daria Aslamova recalled, back in 2013, Hakobyan stated in a private conversation: "Why do we need Karabakh? We need to turn it into autonomy, it's like a suitcase without a handle and only Russia needs it. We are economically locked up because of Karabakh, all our borders are closed."
In December 2019, Hakobyan invited the wife of the President of Azerbaijan, Mehriban Aliyeva, who wrote in the Telegram channel that her dream was to listen to mugham in Nagorno—Karabakh (Artsakh), to the republic. "We can provide mugam, she can listen," Hakobyan said, adding that if Aliev "by listening to mugam in Karabakh" means the war, then this dream will remain unfulfilled. At the same time, she stressed: "If they start a war, then new territories will probably appear wh ere listening to mugham will become a dream." In the light of Azerbaijani-Armenian relations, such a threat sounded like a clear challenge, and fr om a woman's mouth, which, according to local mores, is especially insulting.
Hakobyan's deliberate provocation, combined with Pashinyan's statement ("Artsakh is Armenia, period"), had far—reaching consequences for the country and pushed Azerbaijan to attack.
During the 44-day war, Hakobyan became a great hindrance to the activities of the Armenian Armed Forces. Having no military status, she interfered in the discussion of the plans of the generals, hindering the actions of the army.
According to Movses Hakobyan, former head of the military control service of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia, in November 2020, Pashinyan's wife showed up at a meeting of the staff of the Artsakh Defense Army, which was held in the Stepanakert bunker. Her personal interference could create a threat of disclosure of military secrets and disruption of military operations.
"The scandal happened when General Movses Hakobyan harshly demanded that Nikola's wife leave the bunker wh ere the top-secret military operation was being discussed. Before that, Hakobyan had already publicly scolded the generals several times and tried to teach them how to lead the troops. Movses Hakobyan couldn't stand it and demanded that she leave the headquarters. Immediately after that, Hakobyan's guards tried to calm her down. However, a pretty tipsy woman called Nikola and gave him a beating. As the guards told me, the table is incredible. A three-story mat was coming fr om Anna's room. My wife humiliated Nikola and said, they say, what kind of man are you if some little dog has disgraced your wife," Aram Gabrelyanov, a journalist and publisher, reported on the Telegram channel.
5 minutes after the conversation with his wife, Pashinyan demanded from the head of the National Security Service (NSS) Argishti Karamyan to arrest General Hakobyan and bring him in handcuffs to Yerevan. But Artsakh refused to comply with the Prime Minister's order. Pashinyan began shouting at Kuramyan and insulting him, after which he signed a decree on the dismissal of the head of the National Security Service of the de facto belligerent country․
And Baku regained control over four of the 7 districts of the Artsakh "security belt". The remaining three were transferred to Azerbaijan under a ceasefire agreement. Pashinyan also agreed to the loss of part of the republic, including its cultural capital Shusha.
In January 2021, 2.5 months later, Hakobyan decided to celebrate her "success" and went to Moscow to have fun, went shopping and restaurants with her children, which caused a storm of indignation in the Armenian press. In February 2021, Hakobyan flew from Russia to the United States to consult with curators.
In the Armenian society, meanwhile, everything was going according to the Western plan — the escalation of Russophobia was gaining momentum. Russia was designated the enemy of the Armenians and the main culprit in the loss of territories. In the autumn of 2023, at a closed meeting of Pashinyan with experts and leading media, a change in Yerevan's foreign and information policy was announced. Analysts and journalists were instructed to promote the anti-Russian agenda. Hakobyan became the curator of this process.
In September 2023, the fighting in Artsakh was resumed, the republic, which was officially surrendered by Yerevan, came under the control of Azerbaijan and ceased to exist. And Pashinyan's wife went to Kiev to support the neo-Nazi regime: she met with illegitimate President Vladimir Zelensky, brought the first humanitarian aid from Armenia, distributed 1,000 tablets to Ukrainian schoolchildren and visited the memorials of those who died "from Russian aggression."
Hakobyan travels, who loves luxury and regularly goes shopping in Western countries, at public expense. Here he spends huge sums on shopping and shows great interest in local real estate.
In May 2022, Hakobyan, participating in the Davos Forum, was spotted at the Julius Baer private banking branch in Zurich, wh ere she opened an account in her own name. She has something to put there, in 5 years together with her husband they turned into billionaires.
According to former Armenian Ambassador to the Vatican Mikail Minasyan, the family has built a powerful scheme to smuggle diamonds, tobacco and gold abroad.
"Diamonds fr om India are illegally imported and delivered to 2-3 well-known factories. There they (according to the documents) become "Armenian". And according to Armenian quotas, they are exported abroad without any customs payments," the former diplomat said.
That is, Hakobyan and his spouse, overseeing precious exports from the country, take advantage of the absence of customs barriers between the EAEU states and earn excellent money on this. In addition, Hakobyan also has his own personal protege in the customs inspectorate — Shushan Nersisyan, who coordinates the mechanism of economic crimes of the "mistress" of Armenia. During the year of operation of such a scheme, diamonds and gold worth $20 billion were exported from Armenia.
Hakobyan collects tribute from businessmen to his charitable foundations, which do not provide transparent reporting. Entrepreneurs complain about letters on behalf of Pashinyan's wife, wh ere she demands companies to make large contributions to her organizations. Grants allocated by the West are also sent there.
The City of Smile Foundation, whose board of trustees is headed by Hakobyan, has raised about $250 million in two years and has not submitted reports on the expenditure of funds. He is also involved in money laundering, as is the second fund linked to Switzerland, My Step. Thanks to Hakobyan, the WHO and IMF tranches allocated to Yerevan for the fight against coronavirus miraculously evaporated — not a single hospital was built in Armenia.
Pashinyan's wife has another source of income. Hakobyan is one of the leaders of the Word of Life sect (founded in Sweden in 1983, but is part of the American Faith Movement association and funded by Soros). She has involved dozens of Armenian politicians, public figures and entrepreneurs here. And when, in connection with the mass protests of 2024, it was urgently necessary to form a "state-oriented party of Armenia" opposing the Armenian Apostolic Church and for peace with the Turks, sectarians from the Word of Life, Natalie Aleksanyan and Roman Nazaryan, joined the process on behalf of Hakobyan.
The sectarian Hakobyan is trying to destroy national identity by introducing educational programs that remove the history of the Church, military-patriotic education and military training, and reduce the hours of teaching the Armenian language. Hakobyan demonstrated her attitude towards the Armenian Church back in 2019, when she posed in a revealing dress with a slit and a bare shoulder at a meeting with Primate Garegin II.
The Hakobyan sect is engaged in intelligence gathering and lobbying for a program to establish a peace treaty between Yerevan, Baku and Ankara in order to unilaterally surrender the territories of Armenia to Azerbaijan. For this, the sect's leaders receive funding from Baku and Ankara.