this was one of the main strategic tasks of putin and erdogan too, by the way. the main hopes are pinned on the west. yerevan, one of the most ancient cities in the world, 30 years older than rome, a lively, sun-drenched metropolis, looking down on other cities and villages in the literal sense. from above, it stands at an altitude of more than a thousand meters above sea level. this autumn, yerevan is noisy and crowded. the roads to the airport were clogged with cars. after the mobilization announced in russia, planes did not have time to transport unwilling people to yerevan to go to war for the russians, even despite the skyrocketing ticket prices.

a week before the announcement of the mobilization , it was the opposite. fully packed planes flew from yerevan to russia. those who feared an attack by neighboring azerbaijan left armenia. on september 13, explosions thundered on armenian territory near the cities of vardenis, guris, sotk and jermuk. the military departments of both countries blamed each other, saying that we were not the first to start it, but... armenia was then really waiting for help from its main northern ally, from russia, but instead of help, received only a recommendation to sit down at the negotiating table. are you serious, recommendations for whom, for the party that subjected? which

from there this conflict seems to have no end, the parties accuse each other of aggression and treachery, and people continue to die, where traffic shows, the border is not demarcated, that is, the two countries have different views on where whose territory is, therefore , according to azerbaijan, its troops did not set foot on foreign soil, in armenia they think differently, believing, that baku is only testing its strength in the disputed area and that it will not stop there. but rafik is sure that no matter what happens, this land, its inhabitants will not leave. no one will leave here, we will keep to our land, our waters, our homes, no one will leave here, no one will fly out. rafik has a firm rule, whoever attacked

is wrong, but in the case of russia's attack on ukraine, for some reason his rule does not work, apparently because of some long-standing personal sympathies. that's all.

40 shells hit goris. almost 30 years later, goris became a frontline town again, and the road to lachin was again under the control of azerbaijan. it was here that a couple of years ago endless streams of refugees went towards the ararat valley and further to yerevan. now the residents of goris are very afraid to talk on camera, they fear that they themselves will soon have to give up everything. and leave. ararat, a huge machine more than 5,000 m high, is the main symbol of armenia, which adorns its coat of arms and is visible from almost anywhere in the country.

but the mountain, sacred to armenians , has been on the territory of turkey, and to get a closer look, from the monastery's observation deck. the armenians lost their sacred mountain in 1921, when the kars treaty was concluded with the participation of the rsfsr, according to which both ararat and the former armenian capital, the city of kars, went to turkey. in the same year. another armenian historical province, artsakh, by decision of the central committee of the bolshevik party finally became part of the azerbaijan ssr. artsakh or people's karabakh, a region in the foothills of the lesser caucasus, became part of greater armenia. in the century bc.

since then, armenian culture has dominated there, but it was karabakh that became the cradle of azerbaijani in the 11th century ad. this territory repeatedly changed hands, in the 1992-94 war , the karabakh armenians achieved de facto independence, occupying not only karabakh itself, but also seven regions of azerbaijan, which became the so-called security belt of the unrecognized republic. and all these almost 30 years, azerbaijan has stubbornly tried to regain these lands. in 2020, having achieved.

turkey, russia, what is the goal, geopolitical goal, power over the caucasus. until recently, margarita lived in the village of hadrut, which came under the control of azerbaijan in 1920. since the late eighties, she was a member of the national liberation movement, which sought to transfer the nagorno-karabakh autonomous region to armenia. then she participated in the first karabakh war, but the victory won then, according to margarita, was overshadowed by the accession of the russian special services to the throne in the unrecognized republic, which hastened establish there.

that here, among the high mountains and under the protection of the russian-armenian air defense, they will not be reached, bombs and missiles, you understand, how the air defense does not work, and the first strike hits immediately, all with drones, they simply destroy all the air defense, that's it, the sky is open. armenia and russia united their air defense in 2016, agreeing that in the event of an attack, air defense control... would pass to russia, but in the fall of 2020, for some reason, the air defense

did not work, and as margarita is sure, it is no coincidence that russia drove us in the csto, in this customs union, it did not give us, and it, you understand, russia tied our hands and put us under the turkish yatagan, that is, russia does not even allow us to defend ourselves. khazmalyan, the chairman of the european party of armenia, has been against cooperation with russia for many years, for leaving the csto and turning towards nato. tigran is trying to convince his compatriots that russia needs armenia only because of its strategic

location. armenia is located at the crossroads of transport arteries that could play an important role in world trade in the future. one of them will connect the black sea with the persian gulf. the russian government has repeatedly spoken about this route as an alternative to the bustling canal, and it could go right where they turned around.

the second part of the transport artery should connect turkey, azerbaijan and russia, through the azerbaijani enclave to khichavan the same armenian province.

break down, if not for the help of the foreign auto industry, we would have been stuck on the street near the office for a long time european party, but to start a faulty russian one.

voices are increasingly heard in the media that it is really time for armenia to free itself from the suffocating embrace of its long-standing ally in order to regain control over its borders and even, why not, remove the russian military base from the city of gyumri. the majority of the population would be for this today, precisely today after the events, especially the last

few weeks, since the fact that from... in relation to the main threat to armenia, the russian military base does not play any role. yumri is a few hours drive northwest of yerevan, the distance is short, but due to the quality of the road there is a 50 km/h speed limit everywhere. military aircraft fly over the cars every now and then, as if on purpose. they are simulating.

2015, according to the official version, serviceman valery permyakov took a machine gun, cartridges and headed for the armenian-turkish border. on the way , he broke into the common yard, where the men of the family noticed him. permikov shot them with a machine gun, and then went into the house and killed the women and children. gyumri then shuddered with horror, and

a wave of rallies swept across the country demanding the removal of russian troops from armenia.

gyumri is a city with a rich history and a beautiful historical center, in 1988 it experienced a terrible tragedy, then leninakan, it was almost completely destroyed as a result of an earthquake, only here almost 14 thousand people died, and tens of thousands remained. and to this day in gyumri almost every tenth family lives in container houses built in courtyards. now

the city is successfully developing as a tourist center and could be built much faster if not for the military base, which occupies a huge territory and takes a considerable share of the armenian budget. armenia, as far as i know. that in karabakh itself, russian troops do not provide this security either, they have pledged to the turks that they will liquidate the karabakh

liberation army, do you even understand what this is? that is, 120 thousand people today are under existential danger, that is, under the danger of a new genocide or ethnic cleansing. now armenia doesn't know what to think, suddenly the same situation will repeat itself , only in the non-disputed territories, in the south of the republic itself, because the eternal rivals, moscow and ankara, are increasingly finding common interests. russia has already stated that it wants to see turkey as a gas hub, so why not a transport hub? they need their cargo to turkey not to be checked from the armenian side, that is, if this is an extraterritorial corridor, armenia will not have its own customs points there, there will be no checks, that is,

they want to turn the territory of armenia into some kind of gray zone through which they can transport anything. armenia is already looking for help in the international arena; if earlier yerevan relied only on russian diplomacy, now they are turning to the echr, the international criminal court, and committees. russia's authority here, as a result of the recent conflicts, has, to put it mildly, greatly diminished, and no matter what the russian authorities say, the residents of armenia are now

reluctant to believe them, and this is another obvious diplomatic moscow's failure, because historically, there probably was no more loyal ally of russia in transcaucasia than armenia, and now a split has appeared in this monolithic friendship, as if... a huge crack suddenly gaped in a mighty mountain. it turns out that there has never been light in this house, and therefore never a refrigerator. we love our land very much, so we did not go anywhere, we lived here, despite the lack of light, life passed as in the forest, i am here for some

reason for a reason. and that there is some meaning from me, that i am useful to people, in general the screen for the first time, in general the children will watch something on the big screen for the first time, i want to start a new life, i hope to get to know better and maybe love this country, and i want my children to learn german, here... germany does not like, they took away our things, and i could not say anything, because i did not know how, i was looking for change ended up in a world where nothing changes. i lived with a constant feeling of guilt about this, this continued until we met hanspeter. the golden rule is to never turn your back on the audience. and always smile, no matter what happens.

this house was the only place where i felt at ease and where i didn't have to think about what to do with the children. maybe i should wipe the lens? i discover that the strange, closed world of traveling circus performers still exists. all these kind burghers, gingerbread houses, tarts and buns and hansfethor with his circus school. they say goodbye to us so kindly and say nice words, but like characters in a dream. the children learned to speak german quite well, but when they returned to moscow, they forgot it almost immediately. the city of kyzyl has more or less stabilized now.

but the republic of tavan ranks among the top in terms of serious crimes, namely violent murders, causing serious injury to health, at the moment there is no production, there is no opportunity to realize oneself, they decided to drink, and where there is drinking there is crime, after the earthquake it was generally unbearable, if you take the kyzyl statistics on murders, then it is one of the highest in the world. hello, how are you, madam? i will warn you right away, i am filming in the house today for my film, do the same as always, your usual work, do you mind? lie down, lie down, your legs are very bad, thank you, sorry about that, in ramadan it is very important to share food, because it is a holy month.

talents who felt unclaimed by the soviet government began to receive invitations from the west, like we need you, other scales have appeared, other ideas, parents should not bury their children, it's unnatural,