Armenia
Pashinyan and Lukashenka argue during EAEU session
Pashinyan said the Armenian delegation might even sit out the EAEU sessions in Belarus.
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Pashinyan challenges former presidents to debate on Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations
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
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Aliyev signs joint border demarcation regulation following BRICS meeting with Pashinyan
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev have instructed their foreign ministers to finalise a peace deal ‘in the shortest possible period’, after a meeting in Russia. The following day, Aliyev signed a regulation that would allow the demarcation process with Armenia to move forward. Pashinyan and Aliyev met on the sidelines of the 16th BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, in a meeting that reportedly lasted over an hour. Following the meeting, Pashinyan and A
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Armenian government donates bikes to schools for cycling tournament
Armenia has announced that it was donating bikes to secondary schools and colleges ahead of an upcoming cycling tournament later this month, in a move likely inspired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s fondness of cycling. On Wednesday, the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture, and Sports announced that it had allocated 766 bikes to schools across Armenia to organise and prepare an amateur bicycle tournament as part of the Prime Minister’s Cup. They stated that more bikes will be delivered
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Man charged with hooliganism after throwing apple at Prime Minister Pashinyan
Albert Arustamyan, a 71-year-old resident of Yerevan’s Zeytun district, has been charged with hooliganism after reportedly throwing an apple towards Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan as a sign of protest. The episode occurred on 23 August during a visit by Pashinyan to one of his relatives living in the same building. Eyewitnesses told RFE/RL that the apple did not hit Pashinyan, but that emergency services were still called to the scene. ‘Neighbourhood children say that Nikol Pashi
Armenia
Power of the people: what made Armenia’s Velvet Revolution successful?
In 2018, Armenians peacefully ousted their government in a fast-moving decentralised revolution. Six years on, and amidst regional upheaval, participants of the Velvet Revolution assess the key factors in the movement’s success. In the run-up to the spring of 2018, a change of government in Armenia seemed unlikely at best. Opposition to Serzh Sargsyan’s government had been steadily growing, intensifying in light of the announcement on 12 April that he would run for prime minister, having s
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Armenia’s opposition condemns border agreement as ‘illegal’ as protest continues
Protests against the decision of Armenia’s government to hand over territory to Azerbaijan have been continuing for almost a month, with thousands taking to the streets in the country’s capital and border villages. In the past week, Armenia’s most prominent opposition groups have stated their support for the protesters, who are led by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan. Galstanyan and his supporters are calling for the handover of land in northeastern Tavush province to be halted, and for Prime Min
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