Armenian PM alleges covert network tried to spark unrest Blames KGB recruitment

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has revealed that authorities have uncovered a network of influence agents operating in the country and are preventing attempts to re-establish it.

According to Caliber.Az, citing Armenian media, Pashinyan spoke about the issue during a government question-and-answer session in parliament.

He stated that criminal cases had been opened based on the identified information and that these cases are now being examined in court. Officials are investigating how these networks functioned across Armenia and the channels through which they were funded.

Pashinyan noted that while some members of the clergy had collaborated with Soviet security agencies during the Soviet period, their successors continued this activity.

“These agents have been neutralised. They want to stir unrest in society, but they cannot, because all their covert channels have been detected, and anyone attempting to use them will be struck by the hammer of the law,” Pashinyan stressed.

He again accused Archbishop Ezras Nersisyan, the brother of the Catholicos of All Armenians, of working for the “KGB.”

Pashinyan also said that Armenia plans to deepen international cooperation in efforts to counter such influence networks.

Speaking earlier on November 6 at a press briefing, Pashinyan stated that the information about Ezras Nersisyan — the brother of Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II — was “a fact” rooted in the Soviet era.

“Since the Soviet era, he [Ezras Nersisyan] was recruited by the KGB, and that is a fact,” Pashinyan said.

“By the way, we do not expect any explanations on these facts either from Ktrich Nersisyan [Garegin II] or from his brother.”

By Tamilla Hasanova