YEREVAN. – Hraparak daily of Armenia writes: The issue of dismissing Onik Gasparyan [from the post of Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces] has become a matter of life and death for [PM] Nikol Pashinyan. He breached all the red lines, he even sent the NSS [National Security Service] to Administrative Court Judge Mher Petrosyan to pressure [him], and he would not suspend the order to dismiss the chief of the General Staff.

But the judge made the decision. The Prime Minister was reported about that late yesterday evening. He was so upset that he lost his temper, got in the car serving him, and ordered [the driver] to drive. After midnight, around 1:30[am], the prime minister's entourage started going up and down Mashtots Avenue [in downtown Yerevan].

In the morning, his staff disseminated a disgraceful statement that they would not carry out the court decision, and the "backpacks" [i.e., Pashinyan’s political team] began to condemn the judge.