National Security Service of Armenia exposes fake-news about Yerevan,  circulated by Azerbaijani fake user

ArmInfo.Employees of the National Security Service of Armenia have identified a fake account that disseminates false information (fake-news) on the Internet that  is harmful to the security of the state, society and people.

According to the National Security Service  of the Republic of  Armenia, in particular, on May 29, an Azerbaijani user, Qizil alma,  posted on his page a video lasting one and a half minutes under the  title "Shocking Confession of the Armenian Architect about Yerevan:  Not Ours," in which a woman named as Agnessa answers to the questions  of the camera man in Russian .

"So, in the video, Agnessa from Republic Square tells that Yerevan  was a city-type settlement at one time, where the Armenians  practically did not live and were engaged only in trade. From the  study of the video, it can be seen that it was mounted from another  original video, from which separate sentences were taken, connected  to each other, as a result of which the meaning and content of the  conversation were distorted.  The video was circulated by the  Azerbaijani media with the corresponding anti-Armenian texts, saying  that the Armenians had not live in Yerevan, and that this is one more  confirmation that "Erivan" is an old Azerbaijani city, which was  transferred to the Armenians in 1918, "the NSS noted.

At the same time, the department said that the original video was  shot by blogger Ilya Varlamov in February this year, and Agnessa  offered him her help to present Yerevan. According to the National  Security Service, the video tells about the part of the city of  Yerevan in the 1850s where the Ghantar market once existed, now the  area near V. Sargsyan Street, and where then mainly Persians lived,  (but not Azerbaijanis), and Armenians came to this market for  purchases.

"This circumstance proves once again that the Azerbaijani side is  trying to "find way  to enter" in history through falsifications, but  they failed to do this," the NSS concluded.

In this regard, the National Security Service called on the citizens  of the Republic of Armenia to be vigilant, not to panic and not to  distribute such videos, but in the event of a collision with such  videos on the network, inform the National Security Service about  this.