Armenian political scientist: By renaming Amiryan Street, Armenian  leadership has once again pleased Azerbaijan

ArmInfo. Armenian political scientist Karen Igityan doesn't believe the renaming of Arsen Amiryan Street to King Papa Street was accidental.

On his Facebook page, the expert expressed his conviction that by  doing so, the Armenian authorities were making yet another concession  to Azerbaijan. "Why did they remove Amiryan's name? It's simple. The  Aliyev regime, and therefore the Pashinyan regime, doesn't like him.  The Aliyev regime invented the 1918 "Baku genocide" and blamed the  Armenians-the leaders of the Baku Commune, including Amiryan.   Furthermore, Azerbaijani propaganda also declared the cavalry  commander Tatevos Amirov, who is Arsen Amiryan's brother, an enemy,"  the political scientist noted.

Thus, according to Igityan, this "simple renaming" has two subtexts:  removing Amiryan as a symbol of Armenians in Baku and their role in  the Baku Commune, and also as an irritant to Azerbaijani President  Ilham Aliyev. "Furthermore, renaming Amiryan Street (to King Pap  Street - ed.) symbolizes the struggle against the Armenian Apostolic  Church (AAC), which is also understandable in the modern political  context of Armenia," Igityan concluded.

As a reminder, the Yerevan Council of Elders, at its meeting on June  23, voted by a majority to rename Arsen Amiryan Street to King Pap  Street. During the meeting, Council of Elders member Manuk Sukiasyan  from the Mother Armenia faction emphasized that he has no objection  to the establishment of a street named after King Pap in Yerevan, but  in this case, he believes, it seems the main goal is to abandon the  name "Amiryan." In response, Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan stated  that, with all due respect to the descendants of Arsen Amiryan, he  does not believe that this man embodies the values after which one of  Yerevan's central streets adjacent to Republic Square should be  named.

It's worth noting that Arsen Amiryan was a Bolshevik revolutionary,  journalist, and one of the 26 Baku Commissars. He was born in Baku in  1881 to an Armenian family. He studied law at Kyiv University,  participated in the revolutionary movement, wrote journalism, and  edited the Bolshevik newspaper "Bakinsky Rabochiy." During the events  of 1918, he was a member of the Baku Commune leadership.  After the  fall of the Commune, he was arrested and executed in September 1918  along with other Baku Commissars in Transcaspia.