"Pashinyan turned into those who criticized"

Participants in mass protests in Yerevan told Novy-Europe, why they go out onto the streets and what they are waiting in the end

In Armenia, rallies continue for more than a month demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikola Pashinyan. Their participants are dissatisfied with the transfer of four villages to Azerbaijan and accuse the authorities of unilateral concessions.

Since the beginning of May, actions moved from the border Tavush region to Yerevan, and tens of thousands of people gathered at the most numerous in the republic’s square. The last of them took place on June 9: after it, the opposition set up a tent camp near the parliament building. And the leader of the protest movement, the archbishop of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) Bagrat Bagrat Bagrat, announced the intention of opposition deputies to convene a meeting of the parliament with a agenda about the resignation of Prime Minister Nikola Pashinyan. “We can solve the problem, if from tomorrow, only four days, 96 hours continuously, without visiting work, without rest, without sleep, to be on the street and impose our will,” Blastanyan said. Street actions of disobedience in some cases are accompanied by mass detentions and violence by the police. Novye Europe was recorded by the monologues of the protesters about the causes of discontent with current authorities and accusations of "pro-Russian". Among the interlocutors were those who in 2018 supported the current prime minister in protests.

"If Pashinyan remains, then we will see even more humiliations for the state"

Ishkhan Gevorgyan

A public figure, one of the founders of the Azatazin military educational organization, was detained during the protest shares

I am not ready to put up with the fact that my compatriots take home from the connivance of our authorities. This is an abnormal situation, Archbishop Bagrat Bagrats speaks the same, so I decided to support him and the Tavush movement in the name of the Motherland.

Under the rule of Nikola Pashinyan, starting in 2020, at least one major military conflict occurs annually, this year we also had the dead . So judge who brought war and losses on our heads. With this attitude to the homeland, this will continue endlessly. The movement of Blastanyan is designed to change our consciousness and lifestyle. If Pashinyan remains, then we will see even more humiliations for the state. Azerbaijan already requires the so -called “Zangesur corridor” (the road through the Suinicus region of Armenia to the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic - approx. Author), then it will demand to return Azerbaijanis to Armenia, then Yerevan will require this everywhere. So much will be demanded until there will be nothing to give and Armenia will not. After all, Pashinyan claimed that after the surrender of four villages in Tavusha it would be safer, now he offers to plant trees so as not to see the Azerbaijanis. It is not the first time that he lies and brings war so, he is not able to rule the state.

I do not pay attention to the fact that propaganda calls the movement "pro -Russian." The behavior of Nikola Pashinyan all these years was quite pro-Russian, now the protesters do not advocate or against some foreign state.

Yes, several people with the stigma of the “pro -Russian” figures can go to the streets, but Pashinyan needs more to discredit opposition movements, this is the method that he tested.

Blastanyan, I and many others cannot be considered former or current authorities.

Now we see how the protesters are beaten and detained, that is, the Pashinyan team intends to maintain power at any cost. This is the handwriting of those authorities that were before him, and we are now returning in those days. He did not notice how he turned into those whom he criticized. The victory of the movement will be his removal from power. A temporary government should be created, led by Bagrat Blastanyan, which will prepare free elections. This is what Pashinyan did not do, because what happened in 2018 was anything, but not a revolution. It is necessary to evaluate the past, because otherwise the whole struggle is erased into dust, as happened then, because all previous leaders avoided responsibility.

"Russia leaves the region and is the issue of the new Hegemon"

Giraire Sephilyan

One of the leaders of the National Democratic Pole (VDP) advocates deepening relations with the United States and the West. A member of the Nagorno-Karabakh war, a former political prisoner, opposed the ex-presidents of Robert Kocharian and Serge Sargsyan

Our political force joined the movement, because its basic requirements - the resignation of Nikola Pashinyan and the suspension of illegal delimitation in the Tavush region - coincided with our agenda. Back in April, we participated in promotions in Tavusha, held rallies in Yerevan, which were dispersed by the police.

Of course, the image of Archbishop Bagrat helped to gather a large number of people around the movement, regardless of their views. We also tried to do this for a long time, but did not work, including due to the fact that the Armenian people were very strongly divided and lost faith in the best. Thanks to this movement, the reverse process began, and this process must be maintained.

If the authorities say that this is a pro -Russian movement, then let them give specific facts and evidence, otherwise they are again engaged in fakes and distinguishing attention.

There is a false opinion that under the current government Armenia is moving west, in fact, Pashinyan leads the country under the influence of Turkey.

Russia leaves the region. This is not a decision of Armenia, but we are lucky, because we will get the opportunity to create a really independent state only when the Russian Federation comes out of here, and now we are on the verge of this time. Therefore, now the question has risen - who will be a hegemon in the region? Obviously, Türkiye is already beginning to spread its influence, Iran and the West are not profitable, and here let no one be surprised at their cooperation in not allowing Ankara to completely seize the region.

He has already shown the dispersal of shares and detentions that he was ready for anything, just to remain on power. But the tactics of movement will make him leave peacefully, you need to be more patient. He does not have power in Armenia, he could not even organize the state holiday on May 28 (day of the First Republic - approx. Aut.). According to our data, early in the morning, the ambassadors of dozens of countries were waiting at the Foreign Ministry to go to the memorial to Sardarapat, and then the event was canceled because there was a Bagrat. The world realized that the current prime minister does not own the situation.

The popular movement will force him to resign whether he wants it or not. It is good that in the person of the archbishop there is a person who will lead the country during the transference of power to early elections. This is a good situation for the people to hold free elections.

Pashinyan deceives people with fairy tales about the world. I believe that the war in 2020 began because of him, because of his pacifist image. Every day of his stay in power, it further increases the threat of war and the occupation of new territories. Therefore, the Armenian people have a consensus that this person can no longer manage the country. I see the success of the movement in the removal of Pashinyan and his team, and a full -fledged victory will be the laying of the foundations of a strong national state. His departure is the first condition for achieving our goals.

"We have been living in the conditions of" sewage democracy "for six years"

ASPRAM KRPYAN

Deputy of the People’s Assembly of Armenia from the Armenia Bloc, a graduate of the Geneva Academy of International Law, the daughter of the national hero of the Tatula Krpeyan

I joined the movement because I believe and trust Bagrat Srbazan. His leadership, as a representative of the church, is very important at this stage of our history. We are an extremely fragmented society, and the fact that he took responsibility to create a unification movement is extremely important to restore our unity.

I am sure that if Nikol Pashinyan remains in power, then the Republic of Armenia will no longer be. For several years, we have been having territories occupied by Azerbaijan in different regions of the country, and instead of demanding the withdrawal of their troops, he surrenders the Earth to the enemy in Tavusha.

Nikol Pashinyan and his team have been subjecting our society to information terror for a long time. They brought only death, destruction and loss of their homeland. They lied both in election programs, and throughout these six years. The thesis of propaganda about the imminent world is their next lie. There are many participants in the war, many parents who have lost their children, they know the price of the world best, and they gathered here in the hope of a worthy world, they gathered here to re -find their homeland, honor and dignity.

In 2018, the Pashinyan team talked a lot about democracy, human rights, and what did we see? For six years we have been living in the conditions of “sewage democracy”, not a single person is respected, everything is done to humiliate people. We have political prisoners , people who are in prison for expressing their opinion.

Deputies of the European Parliament and Transpenseri International, after strict dispersal of shares on May 27, recorded that law enforcement forces of Armenia needed indigenous reforms. Talking in such conditions about democracy is nonsense.

"Artsach was the gates of Armenia, but now they are not"

Elbrus Budagyan

Architect, was the head of several villages in Artsakh (Nagorny Karabakh), a participant in self-defense of the 1990s

The problems that have now arisen with delimitation in the Tavush region are associated with the loss of Artsakh. He was the gates of Armenia, but now they are not there, and Azerbaijan is encroaching on new territories. They will never go to the world, they will demand again and again. Baku understands that if Pashinyan leaves, they will have problems again. Without his betrayal, Ilham Aliyev would not have achieved success in the 2020 war. Nicole had come to Shushi, Stepanakert, shouted that “Artsakh is Armenia, and a point,” dancing, and after a couple of years he said that it was Azerbaijan. What else can be said about this person?

My goal is that he resigned, and a patriotic person led the country. Previously, some said that Artsakh was not needed, there was propaganda against his inhabitants, now it is obvious what problems it turned out for the country. It is necessary to return it to Armenia, and then there will be a chance for a calm life and preservation of the country.

The loser leader, a cowardly leader cannot achieve any results, which we see now. Pashinyan in Prague recognized Artsach as part of Azerbaijan (in negotiations in October 2022 - approx. Auth.) And launched the process of new aggression, although the NKR was an autonomous region in the USSR and we held a referendum for independence in 1991. Azerbaijan left the union after us.

In Artsakh, five Marshals of the Soviet Union and one of the founders of Soviet cosmonautics Andranik Iosifyan were born. I am surprised that Russia now allows Baku to destroy monuments to these people in Artsakh, because they received their ranks for the USSR service. I think that our allies are now Russia and Iran, we have already seen that the United States and the West do not help us.

If Pashinyan remains in power, then the country will be completely destroyed. And in the diaspora, people will also slowly merge with different ethnic groups and lose identity. Even if someone else would have headed the movement, I would still participate, because I see the main task of the departure of the current authorities. Nicol has been sold for a long time, he knows that if he loses power, he will come to an end, so he clings to the chair.

"I and thousands of people here are not Kremlin projects"

Edgar Nersisyan

The founder of the initiative "Read Nzhde", a member of the opposition shares since 2016

I joined the movement to put an end to the power of Nikola Pashinyan. Since 2016, I have been struggling against the regime when Sergey Sargsyan was still in power. Attempts to connect us with Russia are dirty lies and manipulation of the authorities. This is done in order to completely strew the attention of those who are not yet ready to go outside and discredit movement. Pashinyan all the time the same theses - they convince people that they do not need to be interested in politics, and everything is fine with us.

Our salvation is in us. I do not consider this movement to be pro -Russian if Russia was organized by an enemy or distributed money for participation, there would be much more people here.

I am ready to fight on the side of the forces that advocate the removal of Pashinyan in order to stop the fall of the country. Homeland is not a product to sell it in parts, how he does it. Any sane person understands that there will be no world until Türkiye and Azerbaijan finally destroy Armenia, so the words about the world are just fairy tales for naive ones. Our story proves this.

The authorities will do everything to destroy this movement, but they will not succeed. Now we have begun to unite around the right idea. As Garepin Nzhda said (Armenian revolutionary and military leader, fighter for the independence of Armenia - approx. Aut.) 100 years ago, our people are suffering because they are not able to unite around common ideals and apply a counterattack.

In 2018, I participated in street actions in support of Pashinyan. He then promised that all corrupt officials and thieves would be punished. Today, all these people together with him are in parliament supposedly as an opposition. I was at a rally when he said that “Artsakh is Armenia and a point”, and now he is ready to abandon any territory of our homeland. The next step, it seems to me, will be the surrender of Tigranash (a village in the Ararat region, the Azerbaijani toponym - Kyarka - approx. Author), which was required in Baku, and Armenia will be cut into two halves.

I believe in the calmness of Bagrats of Blastanyan, he does not perform sharp and rash steps, does not speak unnecessary things under the influence of the moment. This gives me the belief that everything will be fine. The regime should fall, we cannot allow us to destroy our country. No matter how much they lie to the people, that these shares are a Russian project, I know for sure that I and thousands of people here are not the Kremlin projects.

After the victory of the movement, there should be chandeliers. All Kagbeshnikov, who have worked against the country of special services should show on TV. If this happens, I will know that we did the right things and go in the right direction.