The Past daily of Armenia writes as follows, in particular: According to the information we have, [Armenian PM] Nikol Pashinyan returned from Moscow in a very bad mood and with a stronger awareness that his desire to play on two strings has been thwarted.

His internal tension has increased even more when he received information in Armenia already about the convulsions, tension, and uncertainty about the future among the ranks of his own party's elite, as well as about information circulating among certain business circles related to Russia that the prime minister's visit to Moscow was ineffective.

According to the newspaper's source, as a tool to relieve the apathetic atmosphere within its own ranks, it was decided to organize another "mask show," in the target of which will be businessmen close to the opposition.

According to our interlocutor, a corresponding list of people has been drawn up, and the security forces have been instructed to "spread" these businessmen on the asphalt in the coming days, arrest [them] in an emphatically humiliating manner, film [them], distribute the "mask show" in order to ensure a broad public reaction. Moreover, for this [purpose], it has been decided to engage all possible platforms—from television companies, websites and YouTube channels to numerous TikTok "users"—serving the authorities.