2022 Sartish coup d'état attempt

The attempted coup d'état of February 2022 (: 2022 sacelšanās, : Революция 2022-го) was a revolt against the Sartish Republican Party government of Danis Laiviņš, which was suspected of pro-Yarova tendencies.

The was headed by Gijs Šteins, and broke out on 18 February 2022, but failed to establish itself beyond Ruchava and in most of Sartland. Most significantly, Laiviņš was assassinated on 21 February and the Parliament was subsequently stormed, during which four parliamentarians and seven members of staff lost their lives. The government quickly reacted, and loyal forces under the leadership of Uldriķis Tiltiņš put the revolt down by 28 February, when Šteins himself was forced to flee Sartland. A military intervention by Yarova also bolstered the government forces' strength in quelling the coup.

In the coup's aftermath, a military tribunal was set up, which purged the Armed Forces of officers with socialist sympathies, and ordered the execution of two prominent rebel generals, Gusts Mednis and Antars Balodis on 4 March. Šteins likewise was condemned to death in absentia. Šteins had previously been sentenced to by the Yarovan Military Tribunal in the aftermath of the Boreal War but was formally exonerated on 5 February 2022, along with a number of other senior military figures who fought under  Džiugas Svidrauskas. The granting of his amnesty by the Laiviņš Administration, with the support of Shchyokhov, resulted in an initially peaceful demonstration by the Unionist Solidarity March in Ruchava on 18 February that quickly turned violent after clashing with socialist separatists. This demonstration numbered some 1,000 protestors who called for the reimprisonment of Šteins and his comrades and was met with an estimated 4,000 counter-protestors who opposed a Yarovan presence in Sartland.

In the political sphere, President Tanas Gruzdev met with acting president Dominiks Blekte on 1 March in Shchyokhov to organise the facilitation of a referendum on the unification of the Republic of Sartland with the United Federated Districts in a new state known as the Union of Eastern Artemia.