Pashinyan ordered the dismissal of the head of the General Staff, Onik Gasparyan, on Thursday, in response to what he called an attempted coup against him. The order followed a joint statement by Armenian military commanders and two former presidents, Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan, who called on the prime …
Read More »A bad workman blames his tools: Armenian PM claims about Russian Iskander missiles attempt at deflection, based on misinformation
Here’s why. During the fighting in the disputed region, during the fall of 2020, Russia’s Iskander missiles used by the Armenian army didn’t detonate, “or exploded only by 10%,” Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview with the 1in.am news site. This followed comments made by Serzh Sargsyan, the former president …
Read More »Armenian PM Pashinyan says army demand for his resignation amounts to ‘attempted coup’ & calls on supporters to rally in capital
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Read More »Armenian PM Pashinyan says ready to step down – if people vote him out in snap parliamentary election
The prime minister’s fate can only be decided by the “free expression” of the Armenians, Pashinyan wrote on Facebook on Friday, responding to weeks of pressure and protests galvanized by the opposition. “I am ready to leave the post of the Prime Minister as a result of the people’s decision,” …
Read More »Fighting returns to Nagorno-Karabakh as Azerbaijan claims some Armenian troops broke terms of armistice by remaining in region
According to the Azerbaijani side, some Armenian troops refused to cooperate with the terms of the armistice, and had stayed put in forests near the village of Hadrut. In response, Baku says that they were forced to take retaliatory measures. “After the signing of the November 10 joint statement on …
Read More »Armenian soldier cuts ear off Azeri enemy in shocking footage amid claims Yerevan behind war crimes in Nagorno-Karabakh (GRAPHIC)
News channels on the Telegram messaging service allege that an unverified video shows Armenian soldiers cutting an ear off a fallen Azeri soldier, before holding it up to the camera as a grizly trophy. A number of disturbing images and clips have emerged from the violent conflict, with Azerbaijani and …
Read More »‘Time to stop the war’: Talks are the only way to resolve Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Armenian president tells RT
The war between the close neighbors – but bitter historical foes – has “never stopped in Karabakh, even with the ceasefire in 1994,” when Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a peace agreement, Armenian President Armen Sarkissian told RT’s Ilya Petrenko. Armenia and Azerbaijan could still come to terms on numerous issues, …
Read More »‘We should not forget who started this stage of war’: Armenian president on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in exclusive RT interview
“We should not forget… who started this stage of war. It was the Azeri side, not the people of Nagorno-Karabakh,” Sarkissian told RT’s Ilya Petrenko in an interview. Inhabited mostly by ethnic Armenians, Nagorno-Karabakh seceded from Azerbaijan in 1991 and declared itself an independent republic after the 1994 armistice. The …
Read More »Putin invites Azerbaijani & Armenian FMs to FRIDAY talks in Moscow, urges to halt hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh
Putin called on all sides of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh to suspend hostilities “for humanitarian reasons” to allow for a prisoner swap and an exchange of bodies of those killed in the skirmishes, the Kremlin said Thursday. The Russian president previously described the ongoing military face-off in the contested region …
Read More »‘Rest in peace, hero’: Armenian powerlifting champion ‘killed in fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh’
The federation issued a post on Facebook in which it shared the news of Harutyunyan’s death, without giving further details. “With great sorrow we inform that during Artsakh tense battles died a member of APF, multiple champion of Armenia and our good friend Tatul Harutyunyan,” the message read, sharing images of …
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