Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh blocked the entrance to the base of the Russian peacekeeping contingent on the territory of the Stepanakert airport, the Azerbaijani portal 1news reported on March 7.
Protesters blocked the road with cars, preventing the passage of Russian peacekeepers. The protesters demanded “get on Shusha and expel the Azerbaijanis”. The protesters accused the peacekeepers of allegedly charging a fee for transporting each ton of cargo along the Lachin corridor.
Later, the protesting women came to the place of the demonstration with posters, the text of which contained demands to replace the Russian contingent with “royal peacemakers”.
Recall, on March 7, the head of the opposition Tomorrow Artsakh party, Tigran Petrosyan, said that the representatives of the movement intend to hold a protest action near the deployment center of Russian peacekeepers demanding the resignation of the commander of the Russian peacekeeping mission Andrei Volkov. .
In the 2020 Artsakh presidential election, the Tomorrow Artsakh party supported the candidacy of former Republic Foreign Minister Masis Mailyan, who was previously banned from entering Russia.
During the 2020 presidential campaign in Artsakh, Narek Malyan, head of the Armenian socio-political movement VETO, stated that supporters of George Soros openly rallied around Masis Mailyan.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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