{"id":5706,"date":"2025-05-23T10:20:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T07:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armtribunal.com\/?p=5706"},"modified":"2025-05-23T10:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T07:23:06","slug":"golos-armenii-kak-pogib-arcah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armtribunal.com\/en\/2025\/05\/23\/golos-armenii-kak-pogib-arcah\/","title":{"rendered":"Golos Armenii: How Artsakh Fell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"translation-block\">On April 23, 2025, Golos Armenii newspaper published an article by Ruben Margaryan titled <a href=\"https:\/\/golosarmenii.am\/article\/234803\/kak-pogib-arcax#\" target=\"_self\">\u201cHow Artsakh Fell\u201d<\/a>, in which he writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe entire ruling team is promoting the claim that in late August\u2013early September 2023, a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat took place in Artsakh and that power was transferred to the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun. This is a lie, immediately refuted by those directly involved in the events.\nArayik Harutyunyan had intended to resign long before and, despite resistance from the people of Artsakh, he eventually did so. Samvel Shahramanyan, a non-partisan figure, was elected president. It was the final attempt to save Artsakh. Stepanakert was preparing for negotiations with Baku\u2019s representatives in Yevlakh, but Aliyev acted proactively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Armenian Foreign Ministry, led by Ararat Mirzoyan, claims that Artsakh did not support its initiatives and refused to engage in dialogue with Baku in Sofia and Bratislava. In reality, Stepanakert did not refuse any such contacts - air tickets had even been booked. These \u2018efforts\u2019 by the Armenian Foreign Ministry were doomed to fail: Baku had no intention of attending such meetings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt remains a serious question whether these initiatives from Yerevan were in Artsakh\u2019s interests or, in fact, to its detriment. Let us not forget that by then, Russia and the West were already in their second year of confrontation over Ukraine. In such circumstances, despite the presence of Russian peacekeepers in Artsakh, Yerevan, acting behind Moscow\u2019s back, attempted to organize direct talks between Artsakh and Azerbaijani representatives with American mediation, and in Western capitals.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Tribunal echoes Ruben Margaryan\u2019s conclusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhy did Artsakh fall? Because by that time, Armenia had been ruled for six consecutive years by a group of loudmouthed liars and political amateurs. There was simply no alternative.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did Artsakh fall? Because by that time, Armenia had been ruled for six consecutive years by a group of loudmouthed liars and political amateurs. There was simply no alternative.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-materialy-tribunala","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armtribunal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armtribunal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armtribunal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armtribunal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armtribunal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/armtribunal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5708,"href":"https:\/\/armtribunal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706\/revisions\/5708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armtribunal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armtribunal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armtribunal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armtribunal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}