YEREVAN. – At around 12:40 pm on Monday, the units of the Azerbaijani opened sniper fire on the Armenian military positions located in the western part of the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, and as a result, two servicemen of the Armenian armed forces were wounded.

One of them, Sergeant Hrach Manasaryan, a contract soldier, died on the way to the hospital, the Ministry of Defense of Armenia informed Armenian

The injuries of the other wounded soldier, however, are not life-threatening.

Sergeant Hrach Manasaryan was killed today defending our country and her borders. He fought for us seemingly his whole life, including the 2020 War in Artsakh. He was a warrior, a husband, and a father of two.

Pashinyan “His heart was glorified for beating and killing the police, he was shouting, ‘Let’s free Yerevan from the scum of Karabakh.’

Yerkir.am writes ․ Today marks the end of 2008 ․ The 14th year of the bloody events of March 1. The most erroneous legal assessment was the condemnation of Nikol Pashinyan for mass riots, his actions, initiated by his political father, the old man, was aimed at carrying out a coup d’etat, usurping power ․ In a conversation with Yerkir.am, says Major-General of Justice Tatul Petrosyan, who was the head of the RA Police General Investigation Department in 2008, and until 2018. In August 2006 he held the position of the Head of the General Department of the RA Investigation Committee.

Petrosyan emphasizes that Nikol Pashinyan should have been convicted of attempting to usurp state power, and he was charged with rioting, after which he was pardoned.

“His heart was glorified for beating and killing the police, he was shouting, ‘Let’s free Yerevan from the scum of Karabakh.’ A scum who committed a state betrayal in front of the homeland and the people. “What insults are already given to them, what betrayals they have, have already been revealed, there is no place, it is time to act,” he said.

My interlocutor considers the RA Prosecutor General Arthur Davtyan a criminal, who filed an appeal, demanding to overturn Nikol Pashinyan’s verdict in the March 1 case. Petrosyan emphasizes that the story is being falsified not only by the direct order of the Prosecutor General but also by the direct order of the current traitorous authorities.

“The prosecutor is a specific crime in the true sense of the word. So many political persecutions, criminal cases initiated for swearing, illegal detentions against our compatriots are crimes. “The thing is that the judge is being arrested for his lawful activities,” he said.

The Major-General of Justice emphasizes that the Prosecutor General has already crossed all the red lines and said that by justifying Pashinyan, he is only falsifying history and softly formulating it. “He is committing a crime, and I say this as a lawyer. The actions carried out by the prosecutor’s office are an order of the political power. Nikol Pashinyan is now showing a vicious attitude towards everyone, because since 2008 he has been striving to usurp power and come to power. “Today he is taking revenge on those who did not allow his criminal activities to be carried out to the end,” comments T. Petrosyan said.

Petrosyan also assesses the activity of the RA Police as illegal and illegal. According to him, the system fully serves Nikol Pashinyan and his political circles.

“The police commit many crimes combined with weapons, which does not follow from its statutory law. Led by Chief of Police Vahe Ghazaryan, one function is being performed – the function of prolonging the days of this government living in agony a little. Did you see the arrogance of the police, the cynicism in the square, when our citizens were protesting against the Turks being in Armenia? “They were so diligent in filling our young people with cars and taking them to departments,” he said.

Under the noses of hundreds of police officers who took control of the government building around the clock, some groups were supporting Ukraine in front of the Russian Embassy in Armenia, there was not a single policeman. According to Tatul Petrosyan, this demonstration was the order of the political power and the police had no right to interfere.

According to the Major General of Justice, the anti-Russian propaganda in Armenia today is one of the political lines of these authorities, they do everything to cut the edges of Russian-Armenian cooperation.

“Let those who shouted during the 44-day war that France and America would send troops to Armenia see the example of Ukraine. No one will send troops to any country. They did everything to destroy our army and they are destroying it to this day. The army was discredited for 4 years, the Chief of the General Staff was changed in a day, which means to disrupt the entire military activity of our army, to destroy the army bases. They still do that today. They think that they will take Armenia somewhere with anti-Russian propaganda. “Who stands by Armenia besides the Russian army and the Russian authorities?” He said.

According to the Major General of Justice, Nikol Pashinyan will face a severe sentence. “Pashinyan is expected to go to prison, he no longer has the right to be called an Armenian, he brought such a disaster on the head of this country that in 1915. The Armenian Genocide may be less harmful to us tomorrow than what he did during these years. He committed the Armenian genocide, destroyed 5,000 children, we have more than 12,000 wounded, 18-20-year-old children who have gone through serious psychological problems. “After all, everyone had to get married and have at least a few children,” he said

Who is Petrosyan?

When the Russian-Ukrainian war is over, what will be Vladimir Putin’s move towards Armenia? Does Vladimir Putin, as the leader of an allied country, take Vladimir Putin seriously, will he want to work with him?

“Russia has never considered Nikol Pashinyan the leader of the country and has always despised him. Russia, being our age-old friend and strategic ally, simply does not take personal action. Because of Nikol, he will not show a bad attitude towards Armenia. There can be no conflict between nations over one person. “Russia needs a strong southern friend, in the person of Nikol, he does not see that partner,” said the Major-General of Justice in response to the question.

By Wally Sarkeesian

European countries and Turks were one-time colonizers, Empires, were eventually defeated and pushed back starting with the United Estate, under George Washington’s leadership.

but that did not last for too long A a few years later they come together set up a new collective Colony system Called NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization on April 4, 1949, so they drag the United Estate into their colony successfully began the colonization of the rest of the world by controlling the natural resources of other countries under the pretense of Democracy, human right and so on…

Ukraine is just another victim of the colonization project.

uranium ores; 2nd place in Europe and 10th place in the world in terms of titanium ore reserves;

2nd place in the world in terms of explored reserves of manganese ores (2.3 billion tons, or 12% of the world’s reserves);

2nd largest iron ore reserves in the world (30 billion tons);

2nd place in Europe in terms of mercury ore reserves;

3rd place in Europe (13th place in the world) in shale gas reserves (22 trillion cubic meters)

4th in the world by the total value of natural resources;

7th place in the world in coal reserves (33.9 billion tons)Ukraine is an important agricultural country:1st in Europe in terms of arable land area;

3rd place in the world by the area of black soil (25% of world’s volume);

1st place in the world in exports of sunflower and sunflower oil;

2nd place in the world in barley production and

4th place in barley exports;

3rd largest producer and

4th largest exporter of corn in the world;

4th largest producer of potatoes in the world;5th largest rye producer in the world;5th place in the world in bee production (75,000 tons);8th place in the world in wheat exports;9th place in the world in the production of chicken eggs;16th place in the world in cheese exports. Ukraine can meet the food needs of 600 million people.

Opposition With Honor faction head Artur Vanetsyan denounced Nikol Pashinyan’s remarks made at the Q&A session in the Armenian parliament on Wednesday.

“Yesterday we witnessed disgraceful, insolent behavior in the National Assembly,” Vanetsyan told reporters on Thursday.

Pashinyan was enraged by opposition Hayastan bloc MP Hripsime Stambulyan’s claims about the “surrender of the 75 percent of Artsakh” to the enemy.

“Stop shedding crocodile tears here,” Pashinian said, angrily. “I’ll wave my finger to anyone who says I surrendered lands. I will also do other things if needed.”

Vanetsyan believes the language used by Pashinyan is unacceptable, calling it disgraceful behavior for absolutely everyone.

He cited several reasons for such behavior, including an “unbalanced state of mind” or Pashinyan’s inability to answer awkward questions addressed to him.

Vanetsyan says he has never taken part in a Q&A session with the government because he knows “there is an unbalanced person who says whatever he wants, and answers a question as he pleases.”

DW The fear that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could escalate to nuclear war is real. But what happens if any of the country’s 15 nuclear power reactors get caught in the crossfire?

When the Chernobyl nuclear site in Ukraine was captured by Russian forces last week, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry warned of the possibility of “another ecological disaster.”

Normal radiation levels in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone — which includes four closed reactors, one of which melted down in 1986 and spread radioactive waste across Europe — were exceeded according to Ukraine’s state nuclear regulator, reportedly because of military activity in the area.

But, beyond the Chernobyl plant, there are concerns that some of Ukraine’s 15 active nuclear reactors could be caught in the crossfire.

“It is a unique situation in the history of nuclear power — in fact in history — that we have a situation where a nation is operating 15 nuclear reactors and is in the middle of a full-scale war,” Shaun Burnie, nuclear specialist with Greenpeace East Asia, told DW. The plants provide about half of Ukraine’s electricity, though right now only nine of the 15 reactors are operating, Burnie said.  

“The idea of building in protection in the event of a full-scale war was never part of a nation’s planning, at least in terms of commercial nuclear power,” he added.

Though some Cold War-era reactors in the Soviet Union were built underground to ward off military threats, the “enormous facilities” in Ukraine were all built above ground, Burnie said. 

“A nuclear power plant is one of the most complex and sensitive industrial installations, which require a very complex set of resources in ready state at all times to keep them safe. This cannot be guaranteed in a war,” Burnie and Greenpeace East Asia colleague Jan Vande Putte wrote in a briefing released Wednesday on the vulnerability of nuclear plants during military conflict.

Disabled cooling systems could spark radiation leaks

Operating reactors are especially vulnerable in the event of a electricity grid shutdown during wartime. If a plant’s power supply was incapacitated due to heavy bombardment in the region, this could disable reactor cooling — and the cooling of spent fuel storage that is is contained within relatively light walls.

In a worst-case scenario, this could lead to a Fukushima-like meltdown and “massive releases of radioactivity,” Burnie said.

These anxieties are being fueled by increased military activity to the south of the Zaporizhzhia plant — one of the two largest plants in Europe, it has six reactors and a storage facility for high-level nuclear spent fuel. Armed conflict in the region of Zaporizhzhia “raises the specter of major risks,” states the briefing.

The site is already vulnerable, the authors say, as some aging reactors were built and designed half a century ago in the 1970s. Roger Spautz, nuclear campaigner at Greenpeace France and Luxembourg says the original 40-year lifespan of these reactors has already been expanded — as is also the case in France.

“The biggest risk is that spent fuels are hit by a missile or can’t be cooled due to the disabled energy system,” Spautz said. “You need electricity running 24 hours a day,” he said, noting that diesel backup generators may not be able to run for several weeks, which may be necessary in wartime.    

There is an unlikely chance of a direct attack, Burnie said, but structures built for spent-fuel containment could be “destroyed accidentally” in the crossfire.

‘Installations containing dangerous forces’

“Nuclear power plants are defined as ‘installations containing dangerous forces’ under international humanitarian law and should never be attacked,” said Doug Weir, research and policy director of the UK-based Conflict and Environment Observatory, referring to the Geneva Convention.

Burnie believes that Russia, which has more than twice as many reactors as Ukraine, understands the consequences of a direct attack on these facilities — including nuclear contamination of Russia itself if winds blow in a easterly direction.   

“We do not expect to see the deliberate targeting of sites like Zaporizhzhia, but the kinds of heavy weapons that Russia is deploying are not particularly precise,” Weir said. “Fighting around such sites must be avoided at all costs.”

On Monday, Petro Kotin, head of Ukraine’s state-run nuclear power plant operator Energoatom,  expressed concern to the the International Atomic Energy Agency about Russian columns of military equipment and artillery “moving in the immediate vicinity” of nuclear facilities.

Informing the IAEA of shelling near the Energoatom plants, Kotin said “highly undesirable threats across the planet” could be the consequence.

In response, he called on the IAEA to intervene and support a 30-kilometer (18-mile) nonconflict zone around the nuclear power plants.

Today marks the 34th anniversary of the #SumgaitPogrom that took place against ethnic Armenians. In late Feb1988, Azeris attacked Armenians living in Sumgait, #Azerbaijan, resulting in deaths, looting, rioting. Pogroms resulted in the near erasure of 🇦🇲s from Azerbaijan.

In response to peaceful protests of Artsakh Armenians to be reunited With Armenia, Azerbaijan tried to intimidate the NKAO population with violence, organizing massacres of the Armenian population in the Azerbaijan city of #Sumgait, which was followed by killings, rapes, pogroms and looting.Show this thread

Pashinyan Stayed at a Turkish hotel in Kazakhstan Milliyet While the normalization efforts between Turkey and Armenia continued, it was a Turkish hotel of choice in Kazakhstan, where Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stayed to attend the Eurasian Economic Union Heads of Government Meeting.

Pashinyan and the Armenian delegation stayed at the Rixos President Hotel, owned by Turkish architect Aytekin Gültekin. Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu had stayed at the same hotel the previous day. In the statement made after the meeting between the Armenian and Turkish negotiators in Vienna on February 24, they exchanged views on possible concrete steps that could be taken and reiterated their agreement to continue the process without preconditions.

One day after this statement, Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan and his delegation, who came to the Eurasian Economic Cooperation Heads of Government Meeting in Nur Sultan, the capital of Kazakhstan, to discuss the geopolitical tension in the region, stayed at the Turkish Rixos President Hotel. While it was learned that the Armenian delegation entered the hotel on February 24, the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, who was in Nur Sultan for official meetings, left the same hotel on the same day.

It is calm in the city of Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region of Ukraine,  the head of the Armenian community of the town, Aghasi Barseghyan told NEWS.am.

According to him, the city is located 800 km away from Kyiv. It is home to 60-70 thousand people. About 1000 out of them are Armenians.

“The residents, for the most part, do not leave their houses. The city authorities suggested evacuating the population, but there is no point in leaving because there is fighting in Kyiv. A military headquarters three kilometres away has been blown up. The opposite side is not shelling civilians,” Barseghyan noted.

At the same time the shops and public transportation are functioning. Banks also operate, but with some interruptions.

“Residents are certainly tense, but there is no anxiety. This is already a second war for us. We are used to it,” said the head of the Armenian community.