ԿՈՏՐԵԼ ԵՆ ՐԱՖՖԻ ՀՈՎՀԱՆՆԻՍՅԱՆԻ ԷՋԸ

Yerevan—Over the weekend, the official facebook page for Raffi K. Hovannisian, Armenia’s first minister of foreign affairs and founding chairman of the Heritage Party, was hacked and emptied of all of its content from inception to the current day.

The page, which for years had been administered for civic-political purposes only, and not for personal communications, was wiped clean on March 18, a day after Hovannisian published a statement entitled “It’s All Been Said, But Not Done.”

Like many of Raffi Hovannisian’s freely-expressed oral and written addresses of late, it called on his fellow citizens hereafter to save their breath in reacting to the endless sequence of nationally damaging statements made by a self-taken commander in chief, and instead to focus an achieving a new nationwide consolidation—to include a self-cleansing reckoning with the ills of the preceding periods—to save the Homeland from the unprecedented decline and destruction, imposed both externally and internally, currently underway.

It is to be assumed that Hovannisian’s facebook page was destroyed as part of that same plan by the party who was most affected by his March 17 posting.

As two matters of fact, the “Aravot” newspaper’s website was terminally hacked last week, the day after its reporter asked a provocative question of the incumbent prime minister during his press conference; and last July after a series of standard public statements of concern Hovannisian was suddenly, inexplicably, but at once quite transparently barred from entering and attending his grandson’s holy baptism in the Republic of Artsakh.

Reports about Raffi Hovannisian’s national and civic activities, together with a partial record of his public expressions, are still accessible at www.heritage.am