Beniamin Matevosyan: Who from “Civil Contract” will be the first to testify and give an interview against Pashinyan?

(The parallels between Pashinyan and Zelensky are growing)

An interview given by Yulia Mendel, former press secretary of Vladimir Zelensky, to American journalist Tucker Carlson has exposed the inner workings of power among leaders who rose on a wave of populism and Western backing. The details she revealed about Zelensky’s private promises to Vladimir Putin in 2019, specifically, assurances that Ukraine would never join NATO, shed light on a dangerous double-dealing strategy. This backroom diplomacy, built on personal promises that were never intended to be kept, finds a direct parallel in the political trajectory of Nikol Pashinyan. It can be assumed with a high degree of probability that a similar scenario of “promises never meant to be fulfilled” played out in connection with events surrounding Armenian Artsakh and the agreements of November 9, 2020. The tragedy lies in the fact that it is states, not their leaders, that ultimately pay for personal dishonesty and attempts to “buy time” through deception, losing territory, sovereignty, and thousands of their citizens’ lives.

The parallels between Kyiv and Yerevan become even sharper when it comes to the mechanics of holding on to power. Mendel’s revelations about Zelensky’s request for “Goebbels-style propaganda” and his need for “a thousand talking heads” explain why genuine state reform in both countries has been replaced by aggressive media management. Pashinyan employs the same toolkit: instead of deep, systemic change, society is served an endless stream of talk and an army of paid “experts” across YouTube and Telegram channels, whose sole purpose is to project an image of stability in the face of an existential threat to Armenian statehood. Leaders of this type turn politics into a never-ending television series where special effects matter more than anything else, and applause from foreign partners matters more than the actual state of affairs at home.
Particular attention should be paid to the fate of those who keep these regimes running. The news of May 11, 2026, concerning charges brought against Andriy Yermak, former head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, by Washington-controlled Ukrainian anti-corruption bodies, NABU and SAP, is a clear signal to the entire “democratic” elite of the post-Soviet space.

The charge of legalizing millions through luxury real estate is not simply an anti-corruption measure; it is the activation of a mechanism for disposing of political figures who have become toxic or expendable. The fact that these bodies operate under direct US influence suggests that the patronage of global players carries a firm expiration date. Once a political figure has exhausted his usefulness as a tool in geopolitical confrontation, compromising material is promptly leaked and the process of political disposal begins. This is an instructive lesson for Pashinyan and those around him: external security guarantees for manipulative leaders are exceedingly fragile.

The tragedy of Zelensky and Pashinyan is that they came to believe in their own indispensability, forgetting that for the major players they are merely temporary pieces in a complex political process. Using propaganda to conceal the absence of reform, and personal dishonesty in international relations, together build a foundation that is bound to collapse. The fate of Yermak and the Mendel interview are harbingers of decline for all those who have chosen to serve foreign interests at the expense of their own people’s future. In the end, no “talking head” and no Western grant can save a politician who has turned his country into an object of manipulation and his voters’ trust into a bargaining chip. History shows that the careers of such figures always end either in the dock or in obscurity, but the consequences of their lies will take generations to untangle.

Only one question remains open: who from the Civil Contract party or the sitting government will be the first to testify and give an interview against Pashinyan?

Think about it…