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Pashinyan block wins landslide in Armenia’s snap parliamentary elections

by OC Media

•4 min read

Nikol Pashinyan’s My Step Alliance has won a landslide in Armenia’s snap parliamentary elections, according to preliminary results. The previous ruling party, the Republican Party of Armenia, as well as their former coalition partner the Armenian Revolutionary Federation both failed to gain seats in Sunday’s vote. Pashinyan’s My Step Alliance, made up of his Civil Contract Party, garnered 70.4% of votes, 880,000 people. Of the nine political parties and two alliances that took part in the

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Analysis | The revolution will not be postponed: what does Pashinyan’s resignation really mean?

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•6 min read

Armenian revolutionary leader Nikol Pashinyan has resigned as prime minister. While his goal is to eradicate the remnants of the old ruling elite in snap elections, many wonder if the former regime has what it takes to strike back. On 16 October, at 20:00, Armenians were once again glued to the screens of their TVs, laptops, and phones, just like in April, as news of Serzh Sargsyan’s resignation broke. This time, they were watching their protest-leader-turned-prime-minister Nikol Pashin

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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

Nikol Pashinyan (Mari Nikuradze/ OC Media)

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Pashinyan pauses protests in Armenia after ruling party suggest they will support him

by OC Media

•3 min read

The leader of Armenian protests Nikol Pashinyan has called on people to pause demonstrations, after the ruling Republican Party suggested they might support his appointment as prime minister in a vote on 8 May. On Wednesday, the Republican Party announced they will not present their own candidate and will support one who gains the support of one-third of MPs. Pashinyan said he held a meeting with opposition party’s the Tsarukyan Alliance, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, and Yelk Bl

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Mass civil disobedience in Armenia following Pashinyan’s failed PM bid

by OC Media

•4 min read

Mass protests throughout Armenia have gained a second wind after parliament failed to appoint protest leader Nikol Pashinyan as prime minister yesterday. Pashinyan has been demanding a ‘full transfer of power’ from the ruling Republican Party to his movement. On Wednesday, in a 20th day of mass protests in Yerevan and other areas of the country, tens of thousands of protesters paralysed the city’s main arteries, shut down the metro, and temporarily blocked the road leading to Zvartnots Inte

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Protests erupt in Armenia ahead of ex-president’s ‘appointment as PM’

by OC Media

•3 min read

Mass protests erupted on Friday following ex-president Serzh Sargsyan’s announcement that he would seek the position of Prime Minister, now the most powerful post in the country. The protests were announced by the opposition Yelk (way out) coalition on 12 April, a day after Serzh Sargsyan’s announcement, while lighting coloured smoke flares on the assembly floor of the Armenian parliament. On 13 April, several dozen protesters, led by Nikol Pashinyan, leader of the Civil Contract party

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Rising prices and changing taxes have sparked unrest in Armenia

by Gayane Mkrtchyan

•6 min read

The beginning of 2018 has come to mean two things for Armenians: rising prices for essential goods, and for many, a new tax burden. The opposition Yelk are now confronting the government, encouraging Armenians to take their anger to the streets. Fifty-two-year-old Yerevan resident Aida Martirosyan complains that her family’s already low earnings have suffered a blow from rising prices. ‘In just a month, the price per kilogramme of butter has gone up from ֏2,800 ($6) to ֏5,000 ($10).