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Political Scientist Tigran Abrahamyan questions on Facebook the logic of daily border updates by the Ministry of Defense. 

"The Ministry of Defense of Armenia has recently started daily updates on the situation across the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, citing the National Security Service (NSS) report about the situation on Vorotan-Davit Bek road section which is under the protection of NSS border troops," Abrahamyan wrote, reminding of another news that came days ago from the Russian Defense Ministry. 

It said that on January 30, two Azerbaijani servicemen had been arrested in Tegh village of Syunik province by NSS officers, however the news was not covered in the Armenian MoD's updates. 

"Is there any reasonable answer for hiding the news about the border violation by the Azeris and the process of their handover? Why does the Ministry releases disinformation every day, insisting no incidents are reported across the length of the border when we have the incident with the two Azeri servicemen?" Abrahamyan wrote, adding that the National Security Service didn't report about the incident either. 

"What purpose do the formal press releases serve if not to mislead the public? Are they aimed at  distorting the reality, fooling the people or degrading the image of your structures and messages? When will we leave this frivolous approach," Abrahamyan wrote.