Intellectuals' rally will be held in Yerevan on Baghramyan Avenue, the Homeland Salvation Movement reported.
According to the statement, the intelligentsia stands next to the Armenian army.
Turkish media were going to come to Armenian PM Nikok Pashinyan's rally through Georgia, @wargonzo Telegram channel reported, citing sources in Istanbul.
Turkish media – particularly TRT – have applied for coverage of tomorrow's events in Yerevan. TRT journalists now also work on the territory of neighboring Georgia.
On March 1 the Prime Minister of Armenia is gathering a rally in his support due to the fact that the head of the General Staff Onik Gasparyan and other Armenian generals demanded his resignation.
Besides, sources report that certain government structures of Armenia agreed to the arrival of the Turkish media, but this visit had to also be coordinated with the Russian security officials, who are responsible for the security of the border and other strategic facilities on the territory of Armenia. According to our information, the Russian side did not begin to coordinate the arrival of Turkish media in Armenia from the territory of Georgia, the report says.
The author of the Telegram channel, Russian journalist Semyon Pegov, covered the last war in Artsakh. Wargonzo is also known for its sources in various countries, including Turkey.
Ukraine marked the 33rd anniversary of the Armenian pogroms in Sumgait.
On February 28, memorial services for the victims of the Armenian pogroms in Sumgait were held in the Armenian churches of Ukraine, AnalitikaUA.net reported.
Former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Haykaz Bagmanyan joins the statement of the General Staff, officers, commanders of the Armed Forces units demanding the resignation of PM Nikol Pashinyan and the government.
"I don’t think the Armed Forces didn’t think about this statement. I believe that they have made a serious decision, and I join him, I support him. The defeated leader of the country cannot remain in office; on November 10, he was supposed to resign," the general told 168.am.
Commenting on the allegations that the statement of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces is actually interference in the internal political processes, the general noted: "The army does not interfere in political affairs, it is a matter of the country's security."
Haykaz Bagmanyan believes that both the police and the National Security Service have the willpower not to follow Nikol Pashinyan's orders.
Taking into account the recent events and the current situation, the Opposition Homeland Salvation Movement decided to hold a rally on March 1 at 18:00 on Baghramyan Avenue, the movement said on Facebook.
"Considering the recent events and the current situation, the Council of the Movement to Save the Motherland decided to hold a rally on March 1 at 18:00 on Baghramyan Avenue.
It is important for each of you to participate in this meeting. With our participation, we must confirm that we will not tolerate the dismantling of all state institutions by one person, we will support our Army, the President of the Republic, we will defend our statehood to the end, demanding the same from other structures.
The departure of this government is inevitable.
Let us unite our forces and resolutely achieve the traitor's departure."
Russian peacekeepers continue round-the-clock monitoring of the situation and control over the observance of the ceasefire regime in Nagorno-Karabakh.
According to the Ministry of Defense of Russia, at twenty-seven observation posts, Russian peacekeepers are conducting round-the-clock monitoring of the situation and control over the observance of the ceasefire regime. The ceasefire is observed along the entire line of contact.
Engineering and sapper groups of the Humanitarian Demining Center continue work on demining the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. In total, since November 23, 2020, 1,535 hectares of territory, 478 km of roads, 1,512 housing buildings, including 30 socially significant objects, have been cleared from unexploded ordnance, 24,962 explosive objects have been found and neutralized.
This episode was recorded before the events of February 25.
In this episode of #InsightswithEricHacopian, Eric speaks on former President Serzh Sargsyan’s latest interview with Arm news TV, and what are the main takeaways from the former leader’s answers.
Carpets from Artsakh (Karabakh) are now part of the Alexander Tamanyan National Museum-Institute. The Armenian carpets were taken out of the city during the 202 Artsakh War on November 1 by their owner Vartan Astsatryan. There, they were on display at the Shushi Carpets Museum. Seeing that the war was getting closer, Vartan Astsatryan quickly arranged for their transfer to Yerevan to save a bit of treasure from the city.
During an exhibition on February 20, the National Museum in Yerevan displayed 71 carpets from all over Artsakh – from Martuni, Askeran, Hadrut and of course, Shushi.
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Canadian freelance journalist Fin dePencier is traveling through hospitals in Armenia to document the impact of white phosphorus that was used on soldiers and civilians in the Second Karabakh War.
During the 44-day war, when the battles moved from the southern flatlands into the thick forests, Azerbaijani forces fired white phosphorus munitions throughout Karabakh. From October 29 to 31, the villages and towns were lit with white phosphorus, which, when in contact with flesh, kills the victims by burning the bone. The environmental damage to the area has yet to be assessed.
According to Protocol III of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, the use of air-dropped incendiary weapons against military objectives within a concentration of civilians is prohibited and can be classified as a war crime.
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YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 27, ARMENPRESS. On the occasion of the 33rd anniversary of the Sumgait pogroms, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visited the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial to pay tribute to the memory of the victims of the violent massacres that targeted the Armenians in the city of Sumgait, Azerbaijan from February 27 to 29 in 1988.
PM Pashinyan laid flowers and a wreath at the monuments honoring the victims.
Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan, Speaker of Parliament Ararat Mirzoyan and other government officials accompanied the Prime Minister, his office said.