Who was the person sitting in the unregistered vehicle in Kiran? Civilnet

Civilnet reports: "A tense situation developed on the evening of April 26 on the road leading from Kiran in Tavush to Georgia. Citizens who had blocked the road for about a week noticed a vehicle without license plates heading toward Berkaber and prevented it from continuing, which led to clashes between police and citizens at the Kiran bridge area.

Some of those gathered expressed suspicion that there were Azerbaijanis in the car, while others claimed the individuals were Armenian cartographers. One of the media outlets filmed a person sitting in the front seat of the unregistered vehicle and raised the question of who he was.

The verification team of Civilnet conducted a reverse search on the internet using a still from the video. The Pimeyes.com application, which is a facial recognition and reverse search system, generated several results indicating that photos of the identified individual are present in the archives of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia, the Office of the President of Armenia, as well as several Armenian news websites.

Upon examining the links, it became clear that the individual in question is Colonel Sergey Hovsepyan Petrosyan, the head of the Military Geographical Service of the Armed Forces of Armenia. He was awarded the second-degree medal for