
Former Armenian President Sargsyan faces new bribery charges
Former Armenian President Serzh Sargasyan has received multiple charges since being ousted in 2018.
Former Armenian President Serzh Sargasyan has received multiple charges since being ousted in 2018.
Ex-president Robert Kocharyan was also accused in the same case, but was released from criminal charges after the statute of limitations expired.
In late April, the We Are Awake movement submitted letters to all MPs urging them to launch impeachment proceedings against Pashinyan.
The Ottoman Empire’s early 20th century genocide resulted in the mass killings of nearly 1.5 million Armenians.
Serzh Sargsyan was acquitted in 2024 of embezzling more than $1.2 million from the state.
Serzh Sargsyan stepped down in 2018, after being pressured by nationwide protests led by Nikol Pashinyan.
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