The high reputation enjoyed by the Prosperous Armenia leader definitely troubles certain ruling classes in Armenia, a spokesperson has said, commenting on media reports that link a Russian serviceman’s murder with Gagik Tsarukyan's name.

“Several media outlets have been recently addressing a 2007 incident in an attempt to link it with Multi Group [Concern] and the bodyguards of PAP President Gagik Tsarukyan,” reads a statement by Tigran Urikhanyan, the press secretary of the party.

Urikhanyan complains that the outlets are seeking to distort certain cases at their own discretion in order to discredit the PAP leader.

“It is obvious that the PAP leader’s high reputation and the high resource of trust public trust enjoyed by the party troubles certain ruling circles in Armenia,” Urkikhanyan says, adding that the circumstances of the serviceman’s death are known absolutely to everyone.

“None of Tsarukyan’s bodyguards had anything to do with the case. What’s even more, we know about both the masterminds behind the Goebbels propaganda and the mechanisms of its implementation.

The PAP spokesperson claims that such reports pursue a special purpose to distract the society from real challenges and problems.

“The masterminds of such disinformation cannot even imagine that their outdated tools appear dilettante enough to uncover them scandalously five minutes after they appear in any newspaper or website,” he says.