Armen Sarkissian
Protests in Yerevan amidst ‘counter-revolution’
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