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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Official image.
Armenia

Pashinyan challenges former presidents to debate on Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations

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by Arshaluys Barseghyan

On Monday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan proposed a live debate with three former Armenian Presidents to discuss the decades-long negotiation process with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh. All three refused Pashinyan’s invitation. Pashinyan invited the former presidents — Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Robert Kocharyan, and Serzh Sargsyan — claiming on Facebook that since the 1994 Russian-mediated ceasefire between Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Nagorno-Karabakh, the negotiation process was always ab

Former presidents of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan (1991–1998), Robert Kocharyan (1998–2008), and Serzh Sargsyan (2008–2018). Official photos.
2021 Armenian Parliamentary Elections

Kocharyan snubs offer of triple alliance of former presidents

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by Ani Avetisyan

Former President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan has turned down a proposed political alliance between the country’s three former presidents. On Wednesday, Armenia’s first President, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, published a draft of the proposed agreement to form a ‘National Accord Alliance’ between himself, Kocharyan, and Serzh Sargsyan. The proposal, an attempt to consolidate opposition to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, comes as Armenia prepares for snap parliamentary elections slated for June. Acc

Armenian ex-president Robert Kocharyan charged over 2008 crackdown
Armenia

Armenian ex-president Robert Kocharyan charged over 2008 crackdown

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by OC Media

Armenia’s former president Robert Kocharyan was charged on Thursday over the dispersal in 2008 of anti-government protests that left 10 people dead. The Special Investigative Service (SIS) filed a court motion for his pretrial detention immediately after questioning him as a witness. Kocharyan appeared in court on Friday morning. Protests erupted in February 2008 after an ally of then president Kocharyan, Serzh Sargsyan, was declared the winner in contested presidential elections. The oppos

Police arrested hundreds of people during weeks of protests. (Mari Nikuradze/ OC Media)
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Analysis | Ten years after a deadly crackdown in Armenia, will history repeat itself?

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by Peter Liakhov

In a meeting with opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan on Sunday, embattled Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan raised the spectre of 1 March 2008 — when police violently broke up protests leading to the deaths of 10 people. Ten years have passed since then, and the Armenia Sargsyan now stands before, the protests he now faces, are something entirely different. A brief and bizarre spectacle unfolded Sunday morning at the Marriott Hotel in Yerevan’s Republic Square. Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan had

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