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2021-02-26 13:27:10 No criminal case has yet been initiated regarding the yesterday's statement of the General Staff demanding the resignation of the PM and government. The statement of the General Staff and possible risks of developments around it are in the focus of our attention, and if a specific elements and signs of a crime provided by the Criminal Code are identified, an immediate criminal-legal reaction will follow. [Gor Abrahamyan, Advisor to the Prosecutor General] Open / Comment

2021-02-26 13:15:14 Pashinyan is losing his support – church, Army, the President is not with him, and, I hope, soon the turn will come to the Police and NSS. In no country, when there is a transition of power, revolution has 100% support. In Armenia at least 80% are against the authorities, and majority demands his resignation. [Vazgen Manukyan, Motherland Salvation Movement’s candidate for the PM] Open / Comment

2021-02-26 12:57:45 Regarding the elections, I said – let’s dissolve the Parliament and hold elections, and I still stand by what I said. We offered a transitional government, but if now under current circumstances they don’t do it, the Parliament is being dissolved and Nikol Pashinyan is organizing the elections, let Nikol Pashinyan organized the elections. There are no problems for us, the country in a situation when for me it doesn’t matter who is the person who organizes the election, we must emerge from this situation. [Edmon Marukyan, leader of Bright Armenia faction] Open / Comment

2021-02-26 12:45:41 The PM is manipulating the statement of the General Staff so to make use of it and to find supporters even under current situation. They were lying to and manipulating the international community in order to get their support. A military coup is when Armed Forces seize the civilian power, arrest leaders of civilian power, put military troops on streets. In the RA there wasn’t even a similar attempt. The Armed Forces didn’t attempt a military coup, there is no single illegal criminal element, action or sign. [Edmon Marukyan, leader of Bright Armenia faction] Open / Comment

2021-02-26 12:29:12 The rally of the Motherland Salvation Movement has commenced in front of the National Assembly building. Citizens, demanding PM Nikol Pashinyan’s resignation, continue to block the Baghramyan Street. Open / Comment

2021-02-26 12:23:46 RA President Armen Sarkissian is planning to meet with the Head of the RA General Staff Onik Gasparyan. President Sarkissian is initiating a series of discussions, aimed at easing of the internal tension and to find means for the solution of current situation. [Staff of the RA President] Open / Comment

2021-02-26 11:23:22 Scheduled for 11:00 a.m. extra-ordinary session of the RA National Assembly Council, initiated by Bright Armenia and Prosperous Armenia oppositional factions, didn’t take place. The agenda of the session included the issues of convening an extra-ordinary session of the National Assembly. Leader of Bright Armenia Edmon Marukyan assessed it as a disrespectful attitude towards opposition factions. Open / Comment

2021-02-26 10:22:10 Coronavirus update. On 26 February as of 11:00 in Armenia registered:
Confirmed cases in total -171 510 (+283) (7.1%)
Recovered – 163 165 (+181)
Active cases – 4 349
Total tests – 720 629 (+3 947)
Deaths –3 183 (+4)
Deaths, caused by other reasons –813 (+4) [Ministry of Health] Open / Comment

2021-02-26 10:05:51 Motherland Salvation Movements informs today at 1:00 p.m. a rally will take place at the National Assembly building. Open / Comment

2021-02-26 08:17:07 It is obvious that the solution is impossible as long as Nikol Pashinyan stays on his post as Prime Minister. The society also demonstrated that the solutions offered by 17 forces are equally not acceptable. The society has been held hostage of the solutions and ultimatums, proposed by these two poles. We have invite all citizens, who don’t share the convictions of these two poles, to the gathering at Mashtots Park with the agenda of solidarity and sovereignty on 26 February at 6:30 p.m. We are launching a process in the result of which will bring the sides, declared themselves the poles, to the negotiations table. [Announcement of the Citizens Decision Social Democratic Party] Open / Comment