PM’s wife mocks Ter-Petrosyan in veiled Facebook post

PanARMENIAN.Net - Anna Hakobyan, the spouse of Armenia’s Prime Minister, has published a strongly worded Facebook post appearing to indirectly target Armenia’s first President Levon Ter-Petrosyan. Though his name is not mentioned, the tone and content unmistakably allude to him.

“Do you know the main goal of the ‘Education is Fashionable’ movement? One of its most important aims is to radically transform our environment.

To transform it in a way where, if you're a powerful intellectual with deep insight and the potential to serve your nation immensely, you don’t falter due to the insults of a couple of insecure scoundrels. You don’t shrink or justify yourself for something where justification is absurd.

We aim to change an environment dominated by the ‘grown-up’ teens—those rude, unrefined types who mock violin-playing, high-achieving boys just to avoid confronting their own insignificance.

And mind you, this type doesn’t necessarily lack formal education. You can be a Doctor of Sciences, know several dead languages, and still remain such an unvalidated nonentity that even at life’s twilight—when wisdom should be your peak trait—your biggest strength is still insulting others.

And then they say: ‘The PM’s wife insults us’—oh, what noble values.

Do you even hear yourselves? You’re strong, sure—just as strong as those bullies mocking the violin-playing boys, whose so-called power vanishes the moment someone tougher grabs their ear and puts them in their place.

Yes, you still dominate our environment, and the good, violin-playing boys fear you. You’ve found each other, formed a clique—there’s no one ruder or more pitiful to keep you in check. Good for you.

But we’re organizing too. The ‘Education is Fashionable’ movement is against your kind. I know you’ve figured that out. I see how desperately you defend yourselves with your only real weapon: mocking, cursing, insulting—how dishonorable, how miserable, how ignorant.

So be it. We’ll see who ultimately prevails in our society: the kind, honest, educated boy—or the so-called strong guy who mocks and belittles him but is, in truth, a cowardly nothing,” the post reads.

This came shortly after Armenia’s first president, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, visited the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and voiced strong support for Catholicos Garegin II, sharply condemning the Armenian government's "unconstitutional assault" on the 1700-year-old Armenian Church.

In a follow-up post, Ter-Petrosyan compared Prime Minister Pashinyan’s stance to that of Tsar Nicholas II, who in 1903 confiscated the Armenian Church's property. The decree sparked a national protest that forced its repeal in 1905. “If the Armenian people could defeat the mighty Russian Empire, what’s a traitorous blasphemer like Nikol to overcome?” he wrote.