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DOZENS ARRESTED AT RUSSIAN MILITARY BASE PROTEST IN GYUMRI 

9 January 2023
By Ani Avetisyan
Police officers confront the anti-Russia march in Gyumri. Photo: National
Democratic Pole Party.
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Dozens of people have been detained at an anti-Russia protest in Armenia’s
second-largest city, Gyumri, the location of Russia’s military base in the
country.

Several hundred people took part in the demonstration on Sunday, which was
organised by the National Democratic Pole Party, a nationalist, anti-Russia
opposition party formed with the merger of Sasna Tsrer and several other minor
parties.

The group planned to march to the outskirts of the city, where the Russian 102nd
Military Base is located, demanding that the base be removed. 

The organisers of the protest travelled to Gyumri from Yerevan, planning to
block the base’s entrances to symbolise the month-long blockade of the Lachin
Corridor, the sole road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to the outside world.

They were also demanding that the Russian peacekeeping mission in
Nagorno-Karabakh fulfil their obligations by opening the road. 

Gagik Sarukhanyan, one of the organisers, called the Russian government a
‘terrorist regime’ that wages war in Ukraine but ‘also wants to destroy us along
with Turkic forces’. 

He accused Azerbaijan of cooperating with Russia while sending ‘a few
generators’ to Ukraine in an attempt to ‘show the world they are siding with the
civilised world’. He said Azerbaijan was trying to ‘capture’ Armenia while
portraying the country internationally as being a partner to Russia and Russian
President Vladimir Putin.

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The police blocked the road ahead of the protesters, stopping them from
approaching the base. After tensions escalated between the demonstrators and
police, over six dozen people were detained. 

Anti-Russia sentiments have seen a dramatic rise in Armenia since the September
fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan in southern Armenia. Armenia’s appeals
to Russia and the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO),
both of which are treaty-bound to defend Armenia in the event of an attack,
remained unanswered. 

Along with several other groups, the National Democratic Pole Party has held a
number of anti-Russia protests in recent months demanding that Armenia leave the
CSTO.

Criticism of Russia and the CSTO has also come from Armenian officials, though
the authorities have remained silent about any possibility of Armenia leaving
the alliance. 

The  National Democratic Pole Party was formed in 2020, primarily by the Sasna
Tsrer Party. Sasna Tsrer itself registered as a political party only two years
earlier, following the Velvet Revolution.

The party was established on the bases of a militant group that came to
prominence in 2016, when armed members stormed a police station taking several
hostages. Three police officers were killed in the ensuing siege. 

Several party leaders who took part in the attack were sentenced to between 6
and 25  years in prison in early 2022.

By Ani Avetisyan
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 * #Armenia
 * #Armenia–Russia Relations
 * #CSTO
 * #gyumri
 * #National Democratic Pole Party
 * #Russia
 * #sasna tsrer


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