Armen Sarkissian

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Azerbaijani and Armenian politicians implicated in Credit Suisse leak

by OC Media

•2 min read

Leaked records from Credit Suisse, the second-largest bank in Switzerland, have revealed the secret holdings of political figures from around the world, including the sons of Nakhchivan head Vasif Talibov, and former Armenian President Armen Sarkissian. The investigation led by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, together with 48 news outlets around the world, has investigated 18,000 accounts at the Swiss bank after an anonymo

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Investigation: Armenian President was ineligible for post due to secret second citizenship

by Ani Avetisyan

•1 min read

An investigation by Armenian investigative outlet Hetq has revealed that former Armenian President Armen Sarkissian was not eligible for the office due to holding citizenship in Saint Kitts and Nevis, a small Caribbean nation. Sarkissian, who announced his resignation from the presidency on Sunday night, had reportedly done so shortly after being contacted for comment about his Saint Kitts and Nevis citizenship by journalists. In his resignation announcement, Sarkissian wrote that he was le

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Armenian president resigns

by OC Media

•2 min read

Armenia’s fourth president, Armen Sarkissian, has announced his resignation. The acting president will be the president of Armenia’s national assembly, Alen Simonyan. In the statement in which he published the announcement, Sarkissian criticised the limited powers of the presidential office and decried attacks on the presidential office from ‘various political groups’. ‘The President does not have the necessary tools to influence the radical processes of domestic and foreign policy in th

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Protests in Yerevan amidst ‘counter-revolution’

by OC Media

•4 min read

Thousands took to the streets in Yerevan on Tuesday night after calls from Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to protest an attempted ‘counter-revolution’ by the country’s parliament, the National Assembly. On Tuesday evening, MPs from the Prosperous Armenia Party and Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), both members of Pashinyan’s governing coalition, joined with the opposition Republican Party in an extraordinary parliamentary session announced on previous day to approve new rule