"Zhoghovurd" daily writes:
"According to the information of "Zhoghovurd" daily newspaper, NA Vice-President Ruben Rubinyan was summoned to the RA Investigative Committee and questioned. The reason for the questioning was a letter sent to Ruben Rubinyan by Facebook social network user "Ruben Kasyan", informing him that the CP office was blown up. As is known. The RA Investigative Committee has initiated criminal proceedings in connection with the explosions in the houses and offices of members of the Communist Party of Ukraine, and there are 3 persons detained in the proceedings, who do not accept the accusations. Thus, the interrogation of the NA Vice President Ruben Rubinyan appeared in the hands of "Zhoghovurd" daily newspaper.
The question: What information can you provide that may be important for this criminal proceeding? Answer: I received a message from the Messenger application of the Facebook social network from a most likely fake user named "Ruben Kasyan", which was sent to me on February 21, 2024 at 16:06.
The content of the message was that the user in question told me, using profanity, that our office had been blown up. I don't remember if I read that message before or after I learned the news about the explosives planted near Gurgen Arsenyan's office. On the day when I learned from the media that a bomb had been placed near the office of the CP, I also learned from Alen Simonyan that Romanos Petrosyan received a message about the explosion, after which I remembered the message sent to me. I contacted Romanos Petrosyan, who confirmed the mentioned circumstance, I learned from him that upon receiving the message, he contacted the law enforcement agencies.
I asked him to also contact the law enforcement authorities regarding the mentioned message sent to me and for that purpose I sent the "screenshot" of the message. I should note that apart from the mentioned message, I have not had any kind of communication with the user "Ruben Kasyan", I am not aware of who is the actual user of that page. QUESTION: According to the content of the document submitted by you, you and the user "Ruben Kasyan" have one friend in common, that is, the user "Hamlet Mkrtchyan". What can you tell about the user "Hamlet Mkrtchyan"? Answer: I cannot disclose any data. I don't recognize or remember. Currently, I looked at my page and saw that we already have another common friend with the user "Ruben Kasyan", the ambassador of the Czech Republic in Armenia. I should mention that the user "Ruben Kasyan" also sent me a company application on Facebook, but I did not accept it. I cannot say exactly when the company's application was sent. I learned about it after reading his message. QUESTION: During the preliminary investigation, factual information was obtained that Arsham Galstyan, Eduard Petrosyan, and Vahagn Hovhannisyan, organized by Gagik Sargsyan, committed the terrorist attacks that are the subject of investigation in this criminal proceeding. What do you say about that, do you know the mentioned persons or not? Answer: I do not know any of the persons mentioned in your question.
QUESTION: In your opinion, what is the reason for the fact that messages with the content mentioned about terrorism were sent to you and Romanos Petrosyan? Answer: I don't know. QUESTION: After receiving the above-mentioned message, did you feel a threat to your life, health or property, did it cause you feelings of alarm, anxiety or not? Answer: I didn't feel it at first because I didn't associate the message with terrorism. However, when later, on February 26, 2024, I learned about the placement of a bomb near the CP office and talked to Romanos Petrosyan, I was naturally worried. By the way, I saw the mentioned message because I opened the "spam" section of my Messenger. so it's possible that there are other people who received such messages but didn't see them because they didn't open spam.
QUESTION: Have you received threats to harm your life, health or property in the past or not, have you ever been subjected to such actions or not? Answer: Actions have not been taken, but I have received threats many times. I did not consider them serious or real. I found that they were insults due to my political activity. I cannot connect the threats I received in the past regarding my person with the message mentioned and presented in my testimony. I have nothing to add to my testimony."
