Igor Muradyan: Russian troops will be deployed in Artsakh (video)
Member of the Karabakh Committee Igor Muradyan today returned the "Mesrop Mashtots" medal granted to him in 2013 by the National Assembly of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. He says the reason was the beating of members of the Founding Parliament movement by the Karabakh police. Talking to reporters on Monday, the political analyst said Artsakh has a different mission. Russian troops will be deployed in Artsakh, but people in Yerevan and Artsakh are unaware of that mission. Mr Muradyan says Artsakh authorities in would not have stopped the participants of the Saturday automobile rally [organized by the movement] without the consent of Armenian authorities. Varuzhan Avetisyan, Spokesman for the Founding Parliament, says the Saturday incident was a well-plotted operation that aimed to provoke a conflict by beating the rally participants and smashing their cars. Mr Avetisyan says there was a special plan: the assailants wanted to kidnap Alek Yenigomishyan, a member of the Pre-Parliament movement, but mistook him for another activist. “Members of the Founding parliament heard the assailants speaking on radio transmitters. “Have you caught the blind? Kill him,” said the man on the other side,” Varuzhan Avetisyan said. He says they are not going to apply to law enforcement agencies in connection with the incident.
