Pegasus Bridge Puns

This is your 12-minute Wednesday briefing in 3035 words.

##section of North-South is complete, faster travel to Gyumri, but ... there is one huge problem

Public TV: you can reach Gyumri faster now that the North-South's Transh-3 Talin-Horom section is done. One side of the road has a new infrastructure.

The road used to travel through Talin village. This is a new "bypass" road with a junction. 50km has been asphalted. Transh-2 construction begins next year. //

Ordered by Armenians, built by Chinese with British standards, QC by Italians, to be used by tourists.

Construction workers complain that local residents regularly steal the STOP signs to use them as a lid for tonir. The most Armenianest problem.

https://youtu.be/5Dxk-YpQkyQ https://www.panarmenian.net/arm/news/296962/

##Parliament dismisses "media manipulations" and releases transcripts after a Russian Pravda journalist's attempts to defend Russia's perceived inaction during the 2020 war

Russian Komsomolskaya Pravda journalist defended the country's stance during the war. He confronted Parliament Speaker Alen Simonian during a meeting two weeks ago. The Parliament says the journalist's words were taken out of context by Armenian media, and that the journalist himself was manipulative.

The Parliament released the transcript of the conversation.

Reporter: you gave away Karabakh.

Simonyan: do you really think we handed over Karabakh?

Reporter: I think it was done to push Armenia's foreign policy direction away from Russia.

Simonyan: such "giveaway" ideas exist in Armenia, too. Part of the public believes that Russia gave Karabakh to Azerbaijan.

Reporter: do you agree with them?

Simonyan: what makes you think anyone gave away Karabakh? You are offending soldiers who fought and died in the war, and their families. Our people fought hard.

If we wanted to give away the lands, there were several options, including Lavrov's plan [ooooooooooof???]. So, to claim that someone has handed over something means not knowing what is happening in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabakh, and even Russia.

Reporter: in early October [2020] I was at Donbas volunteer meeting. Several thousand people were ready to help you but the leader told them not to travel because several of them had gone there and returned. Armenia adopted a law against foreign mercenaries which would apply to these volunteers