Levon Ter-Petrosyan responds to Pashinyan`s attacks on AAC

ArmInfo. Levon Ter-Petrosyan, the first president of Armenia and leader of the Armenian National  Congress party,  responded to Prime Minister  Nikol Pashinyan attacks on the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC), as reported by the party's press service.

He recalled that in 1903, at the start of the 20th century, Russian  Emperor Nicholas II issued a decree to confiscate the assets of the  Armenian Church and shut down Armenian schools. "This decision  sparked a wave of protest and indignation in all strata of the  Armenian people, inadvertently fueling the rise of Armenian  nationalism. Eventually, the emperor was forced to revoke the law in  1905. If the Armenian people could stand up to the powerful emperor  of Russia, then how could they fail to handle someone like Nikol  Pashinyan, a hater of the nation and blasphemer?" the first president  said.