Sometimes over-zealous pro-Armenian activists, who have recently been bending over backwards to prove the "impeccable service of Armenians to Russia", publish facts which eloquently prove the opposite. Namely, figures of this nationality were traitors and Russia's worst enemies. Kavkazplus has repeatedly written about one of such figures - Mikhail Loris-Melikov in the following materials:

"Loris-Melikov almost ruined Russia".(http://kavkazplus.com/news.php?id=26203 );

Fateful Armenians Loris-Melikov and Kalantarov or will Putin share the fate of Alexander II (http://kavkazplus.com/news.php?id=2242 );

"Strange coincidences: the birth of Armenian terrorism and the unexpected 'rise' of Loris-Melikov in 1877-1880". (http://kavkazplus.com/news.php?id=33993 ).

And now, on the eve of the transfer of control over the Lachin corridor to Azerbaijan, Valeria Oliunina, a well-known pro-Armenian journalist who supports the "Artsakh" revanchists, tried to "remind" Russian society of how much "good" the Armenians had done for Russia. She published an interesting post on her TV-channel about how Mikhail Loris-Melikov, Russian Interior Minister of Armenian origin, "struggled against terrorism and Western agents". Thus, leaving little doubt in the minds of those who know history that Mikhail Loris-Melikov was a traitor to Russia, a British intelligence agent, a patron of terrorism and, ultimately, the real "organizer" of the assassination of Emperor Alexander II, who became dependent on him.

To Valeria Oliounina:

"The GARF (State Archive of the Russian Federation) holds a report (copy) on the preparation of an attempt on Loris-Melikov's life by the People's Commissars on 10.11.1879.  Attached to it is a threatening drawing of Loris's grave. The attempt on Mikhail Tarielovich's life was prepared one month after Grigory Goldenberg and Andrey Zhelyabov made a report about the necessity of terror in Kharkov in 1879. Goldenberg was popular among radicals at the time, as he had assassinated the governor just six months earlier, which was not the only feat in his young life. But already after 4 months the terrorist under the party nicknames Grishka or Beaconsfield (after Count Beaconsfield, the British Prime Minister B. Disraeli of Jewish origin, everything is clear here - the British were the curators of the "People's Will") under pressure from prosecutor Dobrzhinsky began to give frank testimony. On the instructions of Loris-Melikov, he bribed a People's Will activist with the idea of giving evidence to the government about the true aims of the party, and the government, once convinced of its noble aims, would stop persecuting it. He met Loris-Melikov in the Petropavlovsky fortress and gave a very detailed testimony which led him to repent and commit suicide on 15 July 1880, after he realised that he had given up all his agents whom no-one was going to spare. Goldenberg left Loris-Melikov 80 pages of manuscript in March 1880, in April - an annex on 74 pages with the characteristics of the whole revolutionary elite of Russia. On the basis of Goldenberg's testimony were arrested and brought to trial of the People's Revolutionaries, who were on trial for sixteen. Two of them were executed, four were sent into perpetual exile".

This is very interesting information, which suggests that Loris-Melikov was well aware of the underground terrorist organisation which was plotting the murder of the Tsar and all its members. But, "small fry" went to trial (during the same "trial of sixteen") to show "how Loris-Melikov is fighting the revolutionary terror". The main terrorists remained at large and continued the "hunt" for the Emperor. It was probably those terrorists who were "under the supervision" of the Loris-Melikov security service that carried out a fatal attack on March 1, 1881, which cost the life of Loris-Melikov's patron, Emperor Alexander II. 

Otherwise, it turns out strange that Loris-Melikov "uncovered" all the "revolutionary elite of Russia," arrested, tried, sent to execution and into exile on charges of "preparation of the Tsar's assassination" those members of the underground organization who were not even close to the execution of such a plan. But left at large terrorist fighters associated with them, who carried out the murder of Tsarev. Although Loris-Melikov had all the information about those who were preparing an assassination attempt on Alexander II, and they certainly were under constant surveillance, not to mention the recruited members of the terrorist organization "People's Will".

 Hence the conclusion - the murder of the Tsar was "supervised" by Loris-Melikov himself. And he, in fact, carried it out at the exact moment when he got from Alexander II what he needed - consent to the introduction of the "Constitution" destroying the empire.

Here, Valeria Oliounina also mentions the British Prime Minister of those times, Benjamin Disraeli, as well as his Jewish origins (clearly with an anti-Semitic overtone, characteristic of Armenian revanchists in recent times). But unlike Loris-Melkoff, who ruined and led to disaster the state he served, Disraeli served faithfully the British Empire and used his knowledge precisely in its interests as best he could.

 Speaking of Disraeli's origins, historians do not usually mention which part of the Jewish community he belonged to. Unlike the majority of European and British Jews (Ashkenazi Jews), he was a Sephardic Jew. Sephardim constituted the majority of the Jewish population in both the Ottoman Empire and a number of other Muslim countries.

 Therefore, it is no coincidence that it was during Disraeli's time that British policy took on a pronounced "eastern vector". Due to his good knowledge of specificity of ethnic and religious groups in the East, Disraeli persuaded the British elite to bet on Armenians as a "fifth column" to break up the geopolitical rivals of the British Empire "from within", including the Ottoman and Russian empires. By promising them a "great Armenia". All the more so as the Armenians had already long been "agents" of the Europeans in the East.

 The "outburst of terror" in the Russian Empire at a time when its Ministry of Internal Affairs was headed by an Armenian named Loris-Melikov looks entirely logical. So is the fact that at the end of the Russo-Turkish War the "Armenian issue" of "autonomy" was raised with the consequent secession of those provinces in eastern Turkey where the Armenians had a high proportion of population.

In fact, the British Empire was already at that time actively using the Armenian factor in its own interests. The Empire took advantage of the insularity and "mutual responsibility" among this tight-knit religious community and promised to help them establish a state of their own in other lands. Naive Russians were sure then, as many are now, that Armenians were serving Russia out of "Christian solidarity" and "gratitude".

Alexander Chkheidze