Armenia protests

July 31, 2022 12:22

• Yerevan: protesters treat Pashinyan as crisis culprit

  During the time that Nikol Pashinyan is in power in Armenia, the issue of international recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh's independence has disappeared from the country's political agenda; the living standards have gone down; and corruption is flourishing, the members of the oppositional "Resistance" movement have stated.

July 16, 2022 20:16

• Yerevan: protesters blame authorities for death of producer Armen Grigoryan

  Authorities' actions resulted in the fact that the health of film producer Armen Grigoryan had deteriorated, and he died in the courtroom from cardiac arrest, protesters in Yerevan have claimed.

July 16, 2022 04:22

• Armenian Ombudsperson demands to investigate death of film producer Grigoryan

  Film producer Armen Grigoryan, accused of inciting ethnic hatred, died during a court hearing. Armen Grigoryan was kept under arrest despite health problems, the opposition noted. The Ombudsperson demanded an investigation into his death.

June 17, 2022 03:12

• Armenian opposition demands to arrest Pashinyan

  Nikol Pashinyan is responsible for the defeat in the autumn war in Nagorno-Karabakh and should be arrested, Aram Vardevanyan, an MP from the oppositional "Aiastan" parliamentary faction, has stated at a march held in Yerevan.

June 16, 2022 23:57

• Armenian political analysts dispute about opposition's plans

  The oppositionists, demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, have attracted patriotic citizens to their side and changed tactics of achieving their other goals, Armen Badalyan, a political strategist, has noted in his comment on the roll up of the tent camp in Yerevan.

June 16, 2022 12:06

• Oppositionists hold symbolic sit-in strike in Yerevan

  Students of 1988, who stood at the origins of the Karabakh movement, have held a symbolic sit-in strike organized by the "Resistance" Oppositional Movement, demanding the resignation of the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan.

June 16, 2022 11:52

• Pashinyan’s opponents hold a march in Yerevan

  Opposition supporters, demanding the resignation of the Armenian Prime Minister, held a march in the centre of Yerevan and blocked traffic along a city street. Protest actions will be continued, opposition MPs assure.

June 15, 2022 15:08

• Opposition closes its tent camp in central Yerevan

  The participants of the protest action, held in central Yerevan since May 1, have rolled up their tents and will now join the activists seeking the resignation of Nikol Pashinyan in their street protests, Ishkhan Sagatelyan, a Vice-Speaker of the Armenian Parliament, has explained.

June 15, 2022 14:45

• Armenian opposition abandons round-the-clock protest action in Yerevan

  The opposition is closing down its tent camp in France Square in Yerevan and changing its struggle strategy, but not its goals; and activists should be ready to resume its round-the-clock protest regime if necessary. This was stated by Ishkhan Sagatelyan, an oppositional politician.

June 14, 2022 19:37

• Car driver detained after crashing into opposition tents in Yerevan

  The police detained a driver and two passengers of a car that drove into opposition tents in the capital of Armenia. No one was injured, the police report.

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