Armenia
Former Armenian Security chief accused of conducting ‘smear campaign’ against PM’s family
The former head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) Artur Vanetsyan has come under fire over allegations he coordinated a smear campaign against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s family. The allegations were published on Sunday on the website of the Armenian Times. Pashinyan’s wife, Anna Hakobyan, serves as the paper’s editor-in-chief. The paper claimed to have obtained evidence that Vanetsyan worked with several media outlets, including Politik, widely considered to be hostile t