Report on Fundraising from Lori Schools is a State Secret: Shocking Explanation from the Regional Administration

During the days of war, funds were collected from educational institutions in Vanadzor to purchase bulletproof vests and helmets from Russia, as reported by Yerkir.am. The initiative for collecting funds was initiated by the Lori Regional Administration. Furthermore, schools were instructed to submit the money in Russian rubles, claiming that it would be transferred directly to Russia in rubles.

Schools requested receipts for the money transfer, but the regional administration provided nothing.

Following the publication, the website's editorial team received information from other districts of Lori province that the Lori Regional Administration had collected money not only from the schools of Vanadzor but from the entire Lori region. It was reported that the instructions for collecting the specified funds were disseminated solely through phone calls, with all calls made exclusively via the WhatsApp system.

As the Lori Regional Administration sharply refused to provide verbal explanations, the website sent a written inquiry to the administration to clarify why there has not yet been a report published regarding the funds collected in Russian rubles from educational institutions in Vanadzor for the purpose of purchasing bulletproof vests and helmets from Russia during the war, and when it will be published.

The response was more than astonishing: the information could not be presented because it contained state secrets. Essentially, if the Armenian public were to know what was done with the collected money, Azerbaijan could unleash a new war...

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