Political scientist Stepan Grigoryan publicly refutes his statements that he made about former chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia Yuri Khachaturov on July 30, 2018.

“Respecting the court decision, taking into consideration the fact that it has entered into legal force, I publicly refute the information that I provided about Yuri Khachaturov in my interview taped in the studio of “A1+ TV and posted on Yuri Khachaturov’s YouTube channel. My statements were about Khachaturov handing over territories for money, not allowing to show resistance to the adversary and not being on spot during the war and failing to perform his official duties,” Stepan Grigoryan stated in the text of his refutation.

On August 10, 2018, Yuri Khachaturov submitted a statement of claim to the court with the demand that Stepan Grigoryan compensate for damage caused to his honor and dignity and refute the statements.

In one of his press conferences, political scientist Stepan Grigoryan had touched upon the Four-Day Artsakh War of April 2016 and said certain army generals weren’t on the spot, hadn’t shown up to work in a short period of time and had made allegations according to which some territories were sold by army generals of Armenia, including Yuri Khachaturov during the Four-Day Artsakh War.