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, literally from above. it stands at a height of more than 1.0 m above sea level. this autumn, yerevan is noisy and crowded, the roads to the zvartnots airport were clogged with cars, after the mobilization announced in russia, planes did not have time to transport russians unwilling to go to war to yerevan, despite the sky-high prices for tickets. and a week before the announcement of the mobilization , it was the opposite, of the planes packed with drinks.

former member of parliament, founder of two research institutes, is no stranger to politics, but cannot contain his emotions, because armenia has always counted on russia, but at the un meeting , for some reason, it was not it that sided with yerevan, but the western countries, which condemned it.

several rallies were held in yerevan, protesters demanded the resignation of prime minister nikol pashinyan and the country's withdrawal from the csto. well, the authorities of azerbaijan they said that they did not enter the territory of armenia and that they attacked only military targets, and even then as a retaliatory strike. here on the first floor , when they shot, a wave, as they hit, this is the moment, well, it's good that the children were taken out of the house. rafik's family lives in the village of verishen, which is in the province of syunik, not far from the armenian-azerbaijani border. he says that the explosion thundered right next to his house, where he is absolutely sure of this, there were no military facilities nearby. one of the shells hit the wall right here of this residential building, into the basement, miraculously, without hitting the gas pipe, he fell somewhere half a meter from it. and now they are in the black lake.

from here 7 km to the black lake their troops are there from there shooting 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, no less, they think differently, believing that baku is only trying its hand at 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 abandoned. no one will leave here, we will keep to our land, our waters, our homes, no one will leave here, no way out. rafik has a firm rule, whoever attacked is wrong, but in the case of russia's attack on ukraine, his rule for some reason does not work, apparently because of some long-standing personal sympathies. it's all on the edge, turkey,

ukraine, america, so putin started the war, putin started it, of course, he also called up troops, war. rarely leaves anyone indifferent, especially since shells have fallen near rafik's house before. 30 years ago, during the first karabakh conflict , dozens of people died in vereshen and neighboring goris, the lachin corridor, which connects nagorno-karabakh with armenia, passes nearby, there were fierce battles for control over it. at our school , two people died from hail. shrapnel hit, it was strong, here they say the same thing on the night of january 13, about 12, 40 shells hit goris,

almost 30 years later, goris again became a frontline city, and the road to lachin again came under the control of azerbaijan, namely here... a couple of years ago, there were endless streams of refugees heading 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. ororat, a huge structure more than 500 m high, the main symbol of armenia, which... in 1921, when the kars treaty was concluded with the participation of the rsfsr, according to which both ororat and the former armenian capital, the city of kars, were ceded 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 azerbaijani ssr. artsakh or people's karabakh is a region in the foothills of the lesser caucasus. became part of greater armenia as early as the 10th century bc. since then , armenian culture has dominated there, but it was karabakh that became the cradle of the azerbaijani ethnic group in the 11th century ad.

this territory has repeatedly changed hands. in the war of 1992-94, the karabakh armenians achieved de facto independence, taking not only the very. voices are being raised that this is the historic defeat did not happen without russia's participation, it is an alliance, in fact, no one is hiding it anymore, an alliance between whom and whom? turkey, russia,

what is the goal? power over the caucasus.

did not give us, but it, you understand, russia, tied

our hands and put us under the turkish yataghan, that is, russia does not allow us to defend ourselves even when we are literally being cut out, we are not howling with azerbaijan, we are fighting with russia, it is just that russia is fighting with us azerbaijan... khazmalyan, the chairman of the european party of armenia, for many years he has been against cooperation with russia , 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, which in the future.

armenian newspapers have repeatedly written that fsb officers are trying to take control of the armenian-iranian border and that the russians have allegedly built entire military towns in the south of the country. literally a month ago there was a terrible scandal because russian border guards put up barriers on the territory of armenia everywhere and did not let armenian cars through. and pashinyan had to intervene, and these barriers were removed.

the second part of the transport artery should connect turkey, azerbaijan and russia, through the azerbaijani enclave of nakhichevan to the same armenian province of syunik. this is the route, according to tigran, that the russian president needed in 2020. russia was already then obviously preparing for war in ukraine, and it, a land corridor was needed. russia, azerbaijan turkey, which was supposed to, is already going and weapons, armament, tigran, the author of feature and documentary films, studied with lotman, chukhrai, meta, headed the yerevan tv film studio for 8 years, visited all the karabakh warriors, including the last one, which he considers very strange, because their army was disoriented, some of the russian weapons were faulty, and the russian air defense did not work.

as if confirming tigran's doubts, the russian niva rented by us production also suddenly decided to break down, if it were not for the help of the foreign auto industry, we would have been stuck for a long time on the street not far from the office of the european party, but to start faulty russian weapons with the help of foreign ones... we have been told about this many times in the west, we simply cannot supply you with weapons, because we are not just members, we are even the chairman of the csto now. one of the signs of a possible turn towards the west was the recent visit to yerevan of nancy, then the speaker of the house of representatives the united states and its official statement in support of armenia.

these are illegal deadly attacks azerbaijan. not only in pro-western circles of society, but also among government officials. boris has headed the yerevan press club, the country's first association of journalists, for decades. unlike russia and belarus, freedom of speech reigns in armenia. therefore, newspaper articles and television reports can help us understand what winds are blowing in yerevan today.

as disappointment with russia deepens, there is more understanding to the position of ukraine. armenia, as democratic states, they are today subject to aggression from authoritarian states. in the media, voices are increasingly heard 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,

to remove this person who lent them money at interest, and it seems that at night they made a mistake at home, several houses here and there. this is not the only criminal story related to the russian military, in gyumri they say and about brutal fights and about military attacks on civilians, as well as about the criminal negligence of the russians, which often led to tragic consequences. the nearest training ground is 5-6 km away,

people, and tens of thousands were left homeless. and to this day in gyumri, almost every tenth family lives in container houses built in the 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 takes a considerable share of the armenian budget. armenia,

as far as i know, covers at least half of the costs of basing russian troops in armenia. we pay for, say, their stay, they must ensure security.

armenia is already looking for help in the international arena; if earlier yerevan relied only on russian diplomacy, now

they are turning to the ecp, the international criminal court, and un committees. once margarita was invited to give a report at one of the sessions of the united nations, and now she hopes that diplomacy - this is only the beginning, well, since they did it this way. moscow's diplomatic failure, because historically, there probably was no more loyal ally of russia in the transcaucasus than armenia, and now

a split has appeared in this monolithic friendship, as if a huge crack suddenly gaped in a mighty mountain. when putin began a full-scale war against ukraine, i realized that i could no longer be in russia on some second day, i think, i generally recorded an appeal. war is a time when you can stain your conscience on all my life. we flew to mexico and then crossed the border into the united states and asked for political asylum.

i said nothing and did nothing, i just couldn't, then he started shooting at me, her husband killed her, and his sentence was mitigated, the court decided that she was cursing at her husband, so he killed her, we will not submit to our fate, killers of women, killers

of women. it will affect the world more than people will know, and uh, to people in america, they don't even realize how impactful we are, because unless you speak 20 different languages and are watching the broadcast each separate country, like you just won't get it, i mean we don't ev, i live here and... the czech republic right now, and it has the quality of life and standard of living partially because they were able to access radio-free europe a time where they were behind the iron curtain, and so i mean, if we just turn our backs on other countries in the future, they won't have that opportunity, there's never a chance for, turkmenistan or kirgisstan or kazakhstan to have that same quality of life, because they'll just be shut off

from the rest of the world, they won't even know how we live here. if we talk about colleagues, then, of course, we have good relations with our partners, a lot of our programs go out on the platforms of our partners, and this is mutually beneficial and beneficial and good practice, and it will certainly be the same it has been decided that radio liberty knows for any reason, i think that many people will really suffer, they will suffer... first of all, probably, the people for whom radio liberty is the only source of information, often, which does not coincide with the narratives that the state presents to them, and in fact it is not about russia, not even about ukraine, and radio liberty is good because it broadcasts in a huge number of languages to huge audiences, where no one else

can do it, which ones? some that manage to work are simply such rather unique editorial offices, in my opinion, in the horrific conditions of a complete lack of information, some kind of complete blockade, and it seems to me, that the people they broadcast to would really suffer if radio liberty were to close, currently providing unbiased coverage of events in the world, in israel, in ukraine.

the portal's analysts report that the russian military is able to advance in the sumy region thanks to a large number of