Supporters of the Resistance Movement marched to France Square in Yerevan.

They visited the buildings of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Yerevan State University and the Armenian State University of Economics to find out the positions of ministers and rectors on the Karabakh issue.

But neither of them met with the opposition deputies. And about. the rector of Yerevan State University, according to the deputies, closed himself in his office and waited for the departure of the deputies.

Ishkhan Saghatelyan, vice-speaker of the Armenian parliament from the opposition, stated that they are already heading to France Square, where a rally will take place at 19:00.

Since the morning of May 31, supporters of the Resistance Movement have been marching through the streets of Yerevan. At the Foreign Ministry, they tried to meet with the ministers who work in this building. But the latter either were not in place, or avoided this meeting.

Recall that the opposition MPs said they want to find out the position of officials regarding the future status of Artsakh.

We conducted regular polls. The polls were conducted by phone, and about 1300 citizens took part in the polls, the place, of course, is Armenia. The polls were conducted on May 26-28. Aram Navasardyan, director of MPG LLC, a full member of GALLUP International Association in Armenia, said this during a recent press conference.

“To the question of whether they are aware that negotiations took place in Brussels on May 22 with the participation of the RA Prime Minister, Charles Michel and the President of Azerbaijan, the citizens answered as follows. 45.7% stated that they were not aware, 54.7% stated that they were aware. We asked the people who mentioned that they were aware of the question of how they assess the results of those negotiations. The results of the negotiations are fully positive by 11.2%, more by 23.5%, rather negative by 19.4%, and generally negative by 35.6%. 14.3% found it difficult to answer this question. In other words, almost 51% assess the results of the negotiations negatively, “Navasardyan added.

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After the rally at the 3rd building of the government complex in Yerevan, supporters of the Resistance Movement marched towards Republic Street.

They bypassed the Cabinet of Ministers building and returned to the 3rd building of Yerevan’s government complex. Here, the situation became tense again, and clashes between protesters and police began.

A huge number of policemen are at the entrance of the building. A major scuffle broke out between them and the protesters. During the scuffle, the clothes of one of the protesters were torn and his leg was injured.

Law enforcers started apprehending protesters.

“Nikol Pashinyan’s material damage to Armenia and Artsakh is huge. The enemy passed 9 districts, including Shushi and Hadrut.

About 75% of the territory of Artsakh has been handed over to Azerbaijan. Significant living space was destroyed. The losses of the RA Armed Forces are estimated at $ 3 billion. A huge cultural heritage has passed under the control of the enemy.

According to various sources, 2,000 historical and cultural monuments remain in the territories occupied by Azerbaijan, including 122 churches, 13 monasteries, 591 khachkars, 52 castles, Tigranakert, Tsitsernavank Basilica, Azokh Cave, Nor Karmiravan Cemetery, Mirik and Keren monuments. , cultural values, libraries, etc. Azerbaijan passed the 41-square-kilometer section of the territory of Armenia, the 21-kilometer section of the Goris-Kapan road (as a result of which the volume of Armenia-Iran trade was reduced; the alternative road is impassable, it does not replace the previous road). The Azerbaijani army entered the territory of the Republic of Armenia in the Gegharkunik and Syunik regions. In Artsakh, the Armenian side lost 118 communities, towns, and villages.

42 settlements passed from Azerbaijan to the Hadrut region.

13 settlements passed from Martakert region to Azerbaijan, and 8 settlements from Askeran. All the programs implemented in the lost territories of Artsakh with the help of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund – road construction, water supply, education, healthcare, etc. – amount to about 35 billion drams. During the war, $ 100 million was lost from the fund under the guise of military spending. Artsakh’s GDP has decreased by 20 billion drams since 2020. We have lost more than 7,000 square kilometers of agricultural land, hydropower plants and mines in Artsakh.

The budgets of Armenia and Artsakh have lost billions of drams. According to official figures, 3,788 (Nickelians do not publish the full list of victims to hide the real number), but in fact we had about 5,000 victims. According to various estimates, we have tens of thousands of wounded, tens of thousands of homeless people. Unreceived budget revenues for the next 20 years և The budget expenditure burden for the dead and injured will total more than $ 4.5 billion. If we look at all the material and financial losses and future lost opportunities, the damage caused by Nikol Pashinyan is estimated at more than 100 billion dollars. This is how Nikol Pashinyan caused such damage to our country. This is the real robbery. “

A march dedicated to the Day of the First Republic is taking place in Stepanakert.

The participants of the march also express their support for the “Resistance” movement rally in France Square in Armenia. The demonstrators held a poster in the front row with the words “Wake up, Lao for Artsakh!” The marchers chanted “We are the masters of our homeland”, “Union”, “Nicole, traitor”. The youth of Artsakh danced around the flag of the Republic of Armenia.

Representatives of the Resistance Movement in Bash-Aparan laid flowers and honored the memory of commander Dro.

After that, the convoy went to Sardarapat. The oppositionists will also lay flowers at the Sardarapat memorial complex, then the rally will head towards Yerevan.

A new documentary telling about Artsakh’s fortress town of Shushi, which fell under Azerbaijan’s control at the 2020 war, has been made.

“At the heart of the latest Artsakh war was, first of all, Shushi. Some Turkish nomadic tribe seized Shushi after all,” historian Hamlet Petrosyan, head of the expedition group which carried out excavations in Tigranakert, says in the documentary “Shushi: Amen”.

“Shushi was home to five large and seven small Armenian churches, the traces of which have been erased by the enemy over time. They are removing Armenian traces, trying to appropriate our history, heritage and autochthony,” says former Primate of the Artsakh Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Archbishop Pargev Martirosyan, a hero of Artsakh.

According to the film cast, even the two mosques of the town were built by Armenian masters.

The film premiere is scheduled to be held at the grand hall of the Cinema House on Monday, May 30. Irrefutable facts about the Armenian identity of Shushi are presented. The film directed by Mariam Yegoryan is dedicated to the memory of filmmaker Ruben Grigoryan.

The documentary features footage from the first and third Artsakh wars before and after them.

Armenia has released its first-ever satellite to space as a result of cooperation between the Armenian state Geocosmos company & the Spanish Satlantis. It was launched into orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, US, onboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

by PAUL ANTONOPOULOS

Artsakh, or more commonly known as Nagorno-Karabakh, experienced intense warfare in which thousands were killed and tens of thousands were driven out of their homes in only a month and a half of fighting that waged on until the Russian-brokered ceasefire two weeks ago. The conflict between indigenous Armenian forces and the Turkish-backed Azerbaijani military and their Syrian mercenary allies was described on October 1 as a “battle for survival” by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

Yet, despite the existential crisis in Artsakh, internationally recognized as a part of Azerbaijan but historically and demographically Armenian, Yerevan never fully committed to the war effort.

Colonel-General Movses Hakobyan of the Military Supervision Service made a damning testimony on November 19 that revealed how the Armenian leadership made minimal efforts in what was supposed to be a “battle for survival.”

He revealed that by October 30, more than a month after the war began, only 70% of Artsakh’s forces and 52% of reservists in Armenia had been mobilized. According to him, Armenia’s military doctrine determines that near-full mobilization should be achieved within 48 hours of a war beginning. He also said that on the third day of the war Pashinyan had ordered the supply of regular Armenian reservists to Artsakh to be halted and replaced with only volunteer detachments.

By downgrading mobilization to only volunteer detachments, a potential 200,000 reservists were not utilized. In fact, although government and military officials were calling for diaspora Armenians to fight in Artsakh, it has been revealed, at least in Greece, that volunteers were put on a list and would be deployed only if the situation demanded it. Hovik Kasapian, a leading member of the Armenian National Committee of Greece, also said that many ethnic Greeks had volunteered to fight in Artsakh but were rejected because Armenia did not want to put Athens in an awkward diplomatic situation, despite the fact that many of the Greek volunteers were highly trained ex-special forces. Pashinyan defended the necessity of the highly controversial ceasefire by claiming that Artsakh did not have enough manpower to defend against the Azerbaijani military, but Armenia had not even come close to using all the resources available.

The question begs though why Yerevan in a supposed “battle for survival” would be concerned about potentially creating diplomatic issues for Greece when Artsakh was completely abandoned by the West. In a so-called “battle for survival” it would be expected that Armenia would use any assistance offered, especially since Turkey had no qualms sending mercenaries. Instead, Armenian and foreign volunteers were only put on standby or rejected, Armenian and Artsakh forces were never fully mobilized, powerful Iskander missiles were used infrequently and the Armenian Air Force barely featured during the war.

What motivated Armenia’s non-commitment to the war effort is still unknown.

But for all the military mistakes of Pashinyan and his administration, the biggest miscalculation was his attempt to pivot Armenia towards the EU and even flirt with NATO. Pashinyan came to power off the back of the so-called Velvet Revolution in 2018. It was hoped with his accession to power that Soviet-era oligarchical rule and corruption would come to an end. However, as is often the case in post-Warsaw bloc countries, the belief is that replacing communist-era political and oligarchical structures can only be achieved by straining relations with Moscow and pivoting towards Western liberalism. Armenians of course have the right to demand an end to oligarchical corruption and domination, but this should only have been achieved without antagonizing traditional geopolitical alliances.

A report by EurAsia Daily documented Pashinyan’s appointments after coming to power, especially those associated with NGO’s funded by famous Russophobe billionaire George Soros. One appointment by Pashinyan was Armen Grigoryan to Head of the National Security Council. Grigoryan was the Election Program Coordinator of Soros Foundation-funded Transparency International, an NGO that sponsors so-called color revolutions. David Sanasaryan was appointed as Head of the State Audit Service but is known for throwing eggs at the Russian Embassy and demanding the withdrawal of Russian military base from Armenia. Babken Ter-Grigoryan was appointed as deputy minister for the Armenian Diaspora and formerly worked at Transparency International too. And these are just some among many.

Pashinyan effectively flooded his cabinet with Soros Foundation-funded or formerly funded members.

Although Eastern European countries may have opportunities to engage in dramatic social, cultural and economic changes towards Western liberalism with the direct support of the EU, the geography of Armenia dictates its realistic alliances. Armenia as a small, mountainous, landlocked and impoverished country of only 3 million people is wedged between Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey, and nearly 1200 km away from the closest EU member, Cyprus. Yerevan’s closeness and eventual accession into the EU is not a realistic prospect. Geography must determine Armenia’s foreign policy. Armenia relies on Iran for goods from the outside world, Turkey and Azerbaijan are hostile and maintain embargoes on Armenia, and Georgia has proven in action that they side with Armenia’s enemies by allowing Turkish planes to cross its airspace to land Syrian mercenaries in Azerbaijan.

A part of the EU system is peaceful coexistence among member states. This has actually been one of the few successes of the bloc after inheriting a continent plagued by millennia of war, genocide and devastation. The EU also operates because of open borders between member states that are contiguous with each other. Armenia is separated from EU member states Greece and Bulgaria as Turkey is located between them. Armenia will not have an opportunity to join the EU unless Turkey becomes a member state, which is a prospect certainly not foreseeable in the near future.

The geostrategic mistake was motivated by Pashinyan’s delusions of turning Armenia into a Western-styled liberal state despite being in a hostile region surrounded by enemies and far detached from the EU. This folly was exposed when the Turkish-sponsored invasion of Artsakh began and the West made no actions besides rhetorical sympathy.

In the end, with the failure to defend Artsakh militarily, it was Russia that had to intervene to bring an end to the conflict. This was despite the fact that Pashinyan had pivoted towards the West and stacked his administration with Russophobic Soros Foundation-funded members under the guise of supposedly fighting oligarchical rule and corruption that originates from Russia.

Source: InfoBrics

The procession of the Resistance movement from France Square reached the Foreign Ministry and surrounded it.

People demand to dismiss the team headed by Nikol Pashinyan.

Ishkhan Saghatelyan, deputy speaker of the National Assembly and member of the “Armenia” faction, said, “The foreign minister no longer serves the interests of Armenia, we must block the entire building with all entrances,” he said, after which the marchers, pushing police officers, entered the courtyard of the building.

“This building has nothing to do with the interests of Armenia and Armenians, the less the Foreign Ministry works, the less the Armenian interests will be harmed,” he said.