Yesterday’s elections with the National Assembly yielded disappointing results for the hundreds of thousands of protesters hoping to elect opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan as the country’s prime minister. At the end of the eight-hour special […]
This morning, Nikol Pashinyan was nominated for the role of prime minister (PM) by his party, Yelk (“Way Out”), making him the sole nominee to be voted on tomorrow, May 1, in a special session of […]
WASHINGTON—A number of Armenian Student Associations (ASA) across the United States have assembled and penned a letter in solidarity with what they are calling a “student-driven democratization movement” taking place in Armenia. “As members of […]
Special to the Armenian Weekly After 11 days of unprecedented civil disobedience and protest in Armenia, the “Reject Serge [Sarkisian]” initiative led by Member of Parliament (MP) Nikol Pashinyan and his team, reached its first […]
Special to the Armenian Weekly In the middle of the Electric Yerevan protests in June 2015, I was walking around then-occupied Baghramyan Avenue, when I came across a young breaking student of mine named Hratch. […]
YEREVAN (A.W.)—Negotiations scheduled for tomorrow between acting Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan and Nikol Pashinyan—a central figure in the demonstrations that ousted Prime Minister Serge Sarkisian on Monday—will not take place, after all. “I would like […]
YEREVAN (A.W.)—At 10 a.m. in Yerevan, negotiations took place between Prime Minister (PM) Serge Sarkisian and opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan at the Marriott hotel in Yerevan’s Republic Square. Pashinyan had earlier made arrangements with President […]
Today marks nine days of mass protests that started after Nikol Pashinyan, finishing his walk from Gyumri, reached Yerevan and called for peaceful, non-violent disobedience against the appointment of Serge Sarkisian as the prime-minister and […]
Protesters are entering their ninth day of demonstrations in Armenia’s capital. As events are transpiring extremely quickly, here’s our roundup of main events from the last few days, with most recent events first. Just hours […]
Everything changed on Friday, April 20th. Only scant days before, the protest against Serzh Sargsyan’s election to Prime Minister seemed to be losing steam, but on Friday it suddenly erupted in an incredible show of […]
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