The country's Investigative Committee has launched an investigation into murder threats and plotting an assassination attempt against the head of government. The investigation was prompted by a video that is actively circulating online.

In the video, unidentified individuals wearing masks and wielding automatic weapons, standing against a backdrop of the flags of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, threaten Pashinyan with violence. The authors of the video claim they intend to "eliminate" the prime minister, allegedly to "save Karabakh."

Pashinyan himself reacted extremely harshly. He declared that the "masks and automatic weapons" of their owners would be "shoved where they belong," and then lashed out at the authors of the video with emotional criticism.

"Hey, brats, take off your masks. I'll take them off one by one and shove them where they belong. Do you know why you're wearing masks? "Because if they are filmed, it will become clear that these are the same brats who crapped themselves and ran away, abandoning our soldiers," the prime minister declared.

In Yerevan, speculation has already spread about a possible foreign connection. Authorities and commentators close to them are calling the video "an example of a Russian false flag operation."

At the same time, Pashinyan issued harsh statements against his political opponents. According to him, after the parliamentary elections, former President Robert Kocharyan, businessman Samvel Karapetyan, and Prosperous Armenia Party leader Gagik Tsarukyan "will dream of fleeing the country."

All three are opponents of Pashinyan's Civil Contract party, which is running in the parliamentary elections on June 7. The opposition is also often described as pro-Russian: its representatives regularly accuse the prime minister of worsening relations with Moscow and Armenia's departure from its traditional alliance with Russia.