By Arshaluys Barseghyan
The Yerevan Civil Court has rejected a lawsuit by Nagorno-Karabakh’s final president Samvel Shahramanyan, who demanded Armenia’s Education Ministry retract information in a ninth-grade history textbook claiming he had signed a decree to dissolve Nagorno-Karabakh. The court on February 3 ruled that there was a lack of sufficient evidence.
Shahramanyan labelled the information saying that he ‘signed a decree to dissolve’ Nagorno-Karabakh as “false and not true.”
The lawsuit was filed in September 2025 against Nzhdeh Hovsepyan, the author of the textbook, and the Armenian Education Ministry, requesting the court oblige both to publicly retract the wording of the phrase.
Shahramanyan signed a decree ordering the dissolution of Nagorno-Karabakh following its surrender in the face of Azerbaijan’s final offensive in September 2023.
The decree stipulated that the republic would be dissolved by 1 January 2024, and was published by the Nagorno-Karabakh Info Centre, an official government source which is no longer available.
