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Azatutyun Radiokayan (6 November 2023)

A political group increasingly critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Monday strongly denied any involvement in what Armenian authorities call a botched conspiracy to seize government buildings and “disrupt the work of government bodies.”

Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) announced last week the arrests of five persons accused of hatching the alleged plot. It said that they planned to set off an explosion and assassinate an unnamed “civilian” but gave no other details.

The NSS claimed to have found and confiscated not only weapons and ammunition but also handwritten texts detailing the planned “terrorist attacks.” A purported screenshot of one such document released by it calls for attracting members of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), a pro-Western fringe group led by Zhirayr Sefilian, a prominent nationalist figure. He was questioned as a “witness” in the case on Monday.

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