The amount was paid to the families of victims killed in a violent crackdown on protests in 2008 when former President Robert Kocharyan was in power.
Kocharyan argued that Armenia should restore ties with Russia.
In late April, the We Are Awake movement submitted letters to all MPs urging them to launch impeachment proceedings against Pashinyan.
The statement came on the same day that the same official met with the Russian Ambassador to Armenia.
The former Armenian president also suggested that Armenia is moving away from Russia at a time when the country is gaining strength.
The former high-ranking officials were acquitted of the same charges in 2021.
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
