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Protests in Armenia
Armenians continue to protest against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan for signing an agreement to end the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The defeat of Armenia in the war with Azerbaijan by Nagorno-Karabakh led to a large-scale political crisis within the Armenian state.
The opposition is in favor of the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The authorities detain the opposition for protests.
Correspondent.net he understood the situation in Armenia.
“Nicole spies”
The participants of the rallies against Pashinyan blame him for not showing people the real situation at the front in Nagorno-Karabakh, saying that everything was under control, while in fact the Armenian army was defeated.
An illustrative example is the battle for the city of Shusha, which ended the war. Later, Pashinyan himself admitted that the city was taken by Azerbaijan on November 7. Although, until November 9, the Yerevan official assured that the situation, although difficult, but not catastrophic, and the fight for the city continued.
Therefore, now the protesters are calling on the Armenian government to give way to the National Salvation Committee, which will supposedly stop the loss of the Nagorno-Karabakh territory, however, it is unknown how they will do this.
Such an ultimatum to the authorities was announced by 17 opposition parties at a demonstration under government buildings.
Government response
Pashinyan responded by posting one video message after another on Facebook, explaining over and over again that he had to accept those peace terms, otherwise the Armenians in Karabakh would face a final and complete defeat.
Those who sat in Yerevan want to resume the war: the prime minister accuses the opposition.
The military is also unhappy with the rallies, saying that the protesters were not expected in the squares, but in the trenches.
As a result, the special investigative service of Armenia arrested 10 opposition leaders in the framework of a criminal case about the organization and holding of mass demonstrations in Yerevan in violation of the order established by law.
Among those detained accused of organizing mass riots are the chairman of the opposition Armenian Prosperous Party Gagik Tsarukyan, the representative of the opposition party Dashnaktsutyun Gegham Manukyan, the vice chairman of the opposition Republican Party Eduard Sharmazanov and others.
Several people were arrested for violating the rules for handling documents or computer information containing state secrets.
Where will the crisis lead
Pashinyan’s My Step party, as before, has exactly two-thirds of the votes in parliament, and most Armenians experience the shock of defeat in silence, without participating in rallies.
Many experts doubt that the opposition will succeed in overthrowing Pashinyan: the defeat in the war really hurt his reputation a lot, but the opposition, most of which ruled Armenia before the 2018 revolution, is also not very popular.
The director of the Yerevan Center for Regional Studies, Richard Kirakosyan, believes that, at least in the near future, power in Armenia will not change.
“Small protesters, even if they are emotional and active, the opposition is unpopular and discredited, so the government can deal with this threat,” Kirakosyan said.
