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Pashinyan refuses to resign despite precipitous decline in his popularity

Two polls were conducted in Armenia recently, giving the people a chance to express their views on various issues, including the sharp decline in Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s popularity. The first survey was conducted January 23-March 4, 2023 by the Center for Insights in Survey Research, a project of the Washington, DC-based International Republican Institute. This scientific survey, based on a random sample of Armenia’s population, was funded by the United States Agency for Internat

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Harut Sassounian

Harut Sassounian is the publisher of The California Courier, a weekly newspaper based in Glendale, Calif. He is the president of the Armenia Artsakh Fund, a non-profit organization that has donated to Armenia and Artsakh one billion dollars of humanitarian aid, mostly medicines, since 1989 (including its predecessor, the United Armenian Fund). He has been decorated by the presidents of Armenia and Artsakh and the heads of the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic churches. He is also the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

6 Comments

  1. Armenians have been, are and will be the main authors of all of Armenia’s darkest pages in history.

    1. NOPE: the perpetrators own the place of being the main authors of Armenia’s darkest pages; any incompetence among victims of genocide or ethnic cleansing only makes it easier for Turks, Azeris, or anyone else that commits mass homicide & and the destruction of Armenian cultural landmarks.

  2. Mr. Sassounian,
    It was during the 2018 velvet revolution, when Pasinyan declared in front of his supporters at Republic Square, ” Either I AM the next Prime Minister of Armenia or Armenia WILL NOT have a Prime Minister”. So there you have it, that outta give you a clue as to why he’s not going to resign. What we have here is, a group of convicts, felons. and Hooligans, Who participated in,the March 2008 riots in Yerevan, now took the helm of the country by Power grab,and they called it Democratically elected Prime Minister. As a matter of fact, Putin was the first person to congratulate Pashinyan on his election. Polls mean NOTHING
    They can conduct KAZILLION polls ,day in day out, if the people there don’t have the manhood to remove him and his clowns, then they are in for a big disaster waiting to happen.

  3. At Concerned,
    You keep rambling on about the Armenians, however,If it hadn’t been for,Byzantine Armenia, chances are, Russia, may have never existed today, because Russia lived under Tatar-Mongol yoke for over 300 years, and it was the Christian Orthodxy that saved their buttocks.

    1. Professional Russophobes like you either have an agenda to push forward or simply have the need to revisit the history books. There is no such thing as “Byzantine Armenia”. Byzantine Greeks and Armenians were mortal enemies for much of the period. Byzantines put an end to the last Armenian kingdom at Ani. Byzantine Greeks exiled more Armenians than Turks did. Russia’s Foreign Minister Lavrov is more “Armenian” than any Byzantine official of Armenian descent. So, nice try. Try again…

  4. Yes, Byzantine Armenia was aka, Eastern Roman Empire, due to Armenia’s geographical location. Byzantine Armenia had 18 Emperors who were just as brutal as Roman emperors. Greeks and Armenians had friction over Armenians’ ambition to forge friendship with Arabs. Blood spilled on both sides, but relations between the two improved over time. Unrelated, three days ago, the Azeri soldiers crossed into the Armenian territory to steak flagpole with Azeri flag attached at the tip,with the Russian PEACEKEEPERS escorting them ( providing protection) . It can be seen in the video where Armenian border guards arriving at the seen, and Azeris with their tails between their legs running behind the Russian military vehicle taking cover. If I was to condemn the Russians for escorting the Azeris, then I’m considered a Russophobe. Maybe, I should ship a box of dark chocolate and a bottle of champaign, and a sweet note to Putin for a job well done. As for that half Armenian Lavrov, he has done a ‘superb job’ for devising the Lavrov Plan,and we all know how messed up this whole thing ended up.

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