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    WHO STAND BEHIND WIRETAPPING?

    http://www.a1plus.am/en/politics/2012/12/17/listening-device
    07:40 PM | DECEMBER 17, 2012 | POLITICS

    The practice of publishing bugged political conversation was started
    in Armenia five years ago. Leader of the Country of law Party (OEK)
    Arthur Baghdasaryan was the first to be secretly recorded in 2007 in
    a Yerevan cafe before the parliamentary election.

    In the recorded conversation, Baghdasaryan was persuading a British
    diplomat to give a negative assessment of the parliamentary election
    to be held in the country in May of the same year. The recording was
    immediately libeled as black PR and no one charged for the secret
    recording. In its turn, the National Security Service denied its
    connection with the wiretapping and publication of the conversation.

    Robert Kocharyan (Armenia's President from 1998 till 2008) called
    Arthur Baghdasaryan a parricide. The same Baghdasaryan today is
    holding the position of National Security Council Secretary.

    The teammates of Armenia's first president and leader of the opposition
    Armenian National Congress were the next in Armenia to be secretly
    bugged in 2008. Following the deadly post-election clashes of March
    1, 2008, a covert recording with the conversation between Alexander
    Arzumanyan [head of Ter-Petrosyan's election headquarters] and Nikol
    Pashinyan [member of the headquarters] was put into circulation. The
    recording was later attached to the material on March 1 clashes where
    the Procurator's Office tried to shift the responsibility for the ten
    victims on Arzumanyan and Pashinyan as its spokesperson had earlier
    announced that the police had not open fire at the demonstrators.

    Today the opposition press and political forces blame Robert Kocharyan
    and Serzh Sargsyan for the March 1 tragic events.

    In the newly-wiretapped recording HAK Coordinator Levon Zurabyan and
    ex-Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian are discussing the possibility
    of fielding their candidates in the upcoming presidential election.

    The National Security Service has again denied its connection to the
    covert recording which has caused a stir among political circles and
    on online social networking sites. Many say the recording aims to
    quarrel Levon Zurabyan, Nikol Pashinyan and Hrant Bagratyan. During
    the conversation, Zurabyan says that if HAK leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan
    decided not to run for president himself, and the opposition bloc was
    discussing the possibility of fielding former Prime Minister Hrant
    Bagratyan as a candidate instead. No one cares to ask why opposition
    figures are bugged and who is wiretapping ordered by. The question
    still remains unanswered.

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