“Ktrich Nersisyan’s brother (referring to Catholicos Karekin II – ed.) was a KGB agent of the Soviet Union, and this fact is already known.” This was stated today, March 20, by Andranik Simonyan, head of the SSNS, in a conversation with journalists at the National Assembly, responding to a question about the validity of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s claims about the Catholicos and other clergymen’s connections to intelligence networks in third countries.
He did not answer questions about whether he personally joined Pashinyan’s campaign to “reform” the church, given that Pashinyan’s references to the Catholicos as “Ktrich Nersisyan” essentially express a specific political position.
2026-03-20