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Pashinyan instigates protests outside Armenian courts calling for transitional justice

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Pro­test­ers blocking the entrance of a court in Yerevan on 20 May. (Knar Khudoyan / OC Media)

Pro­test­ers gathered outside courts across Armenia on Monday after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called for sup­port­ers to block the entrances, describ­ing the courts as ‘puppets’ of the former gov­ern­ment. [Read more…]

Interview | Gevorg Gorgisyan: ‘We will prevent the authorities from turning away from the values of the revolution’

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Gevorg Gorgisyan (Armlur.am)

Reflect­ing on the time since snap par­lia­men­tary elections last December in which the Bright Armenia Party took 18 seats, the secretary of the party’s par­lia­men­tary faction, Gevorg Gorgisyan, says their mission has been and remains to keep the ruling party in check and to make them deliver on the promises of the Velvet Rev­o­lu­tion. [Read more…]

Armenia hopes for Nagorno-Karabakh’s return to the negotiating table

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Ilham Aliyev (left) with Nikol Pashinyan at World Economic Forum in Davos, January 2019. (Still from official video)

Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan and Azer­bai­jani President Ilham Aliyev will meet offi­cial­ly this Friday. In Armenia, talk of progress in the peace process has largely focused on the inclusion of Nagorno-Karabakh in future nego­ti­a­tions. [Read more…]

Proposals to include Nagorno-Karabakh in peace talks raise red flags in Azerbaijan

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Nikol Pashinyan (left) and Ilham Aliyev on an informal meeting in Davost at World Economic Forum in January. (primeminister.am)

Ahead of a meeting between the Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan and Azer­bai­jani President Ilham Aliyev this Friday, Azer­bai­jani analysts and politi­cians share their hopes and concerns over the rekindled dialogue between Armenia and Azer­bai­jan over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

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Opinion | Pashinyan’s neoliberal reforms risk undermining the values of the revolution

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Samson Mar­tirosyan is a freelance reporter based in Armenia. He writes on social justice, regional and domestic politics, and human rights, follow him on Twitter @mrtrsyns.

Pashinyan and his rev­o­lu­tion­ary team have begun their second march — this time as a gov­ern­ment parading towards economic rev­o­lu­tion. Despite their ambitious goal to shake up Armenia’s economy, which for years has been impaired by sys­tem­at­ic cor­rup­tion, feudal-like oligarchs and shady deals behind closed doors, their proposed ‘economic rev­o­lu­tion’ should do more to address the needs and expec­ta­tions of the people who made the Velvet Rev­o­lu­tion possible. [Read more…]

Armenia’s new plan: an economic revolution or empty promises?

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(Nikol Pashinyan / Facebook)

On 8 February, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan intro­duced the government’s ‘rev­o­lu­tion­ary economic programme’. The programme promised to create ‘radical economic growth’, but critics say it lacks substance, putting too much emphasis on the actions of the public.

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Interview | De Waal: ‘Is it time to come up with a bigger offer to Abkhazia?’

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Thomas de Waal is a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe, a London-based think tank.

Thomas de Waal, senior fellow at Carnegie Europe and a prolific writer on the South Caucasus recently sat down with OC Media. He discussed democracy in Abkhazia and the inter­na­tion­al community’s role there, and the recent thaw in relations between Armenia and Azer­bai­jan.

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Taxes, corruption, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Turkey: Pashinyan’s vision for the ‘New Armenia’

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Having swept to power in a landslide electoral victory, the new gov­ern­ment of rev­o­lu­tion­ary leader Nikol Pashinyan is now laying out its vision for a ‘New Armenia’ — with ambitious plans for peace and reform.

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