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Pashinyan Invites Acting PM Karapetyan to Negotiations
I urge everyone to temporarily stop blocking streets in Yerevan so that we are able to return traffic in the capital to normal. We can’t allow people to take advantage of the...Read More »
‘Pashinyan Was Right; I Was Wrong;’ Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan Resigns (Live Thread)
The striking students of Yerevan State University intend to start a march from the university yard. Several parents have also joined the students. The demonstrators are chanting, “Free, Independent Student!”Read More »
Thousands Continue Flooding Yerevan Streets After Pashinyan Arrest (Live Thread)
Once Pashinyan was taken care of, riot police then used stun grenades against the crowd and began mass beatings and detentions...Read More »
US Embassy in Armenia Urges Authorities to Refrain from Violence Against Peaceful Demonstrators
We urge the government to show restraint to allow for peaceful protest and we urge those exercising their freedom of assembly to do so responsibly, to avoid violence, and to prevent an escalatio...Read More »
VIDEO: Serzh Sargsyan Threatens Pashinyan With March 1 to Make Him Stop Fighting
Armenia’s newly appointed Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan today reminded opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan about the 2008 March 1 deadly post-election clashes to...Read More »
Pashinyan to Negotiate with Authorities ‘on Behalf of People’ (Live Thread)
The Armenian police have issued a statement to demand that Nikol Pashinyan immediately stops the rallies across Yerevan. The law enforcement agency threatens otherwise to take measures to disperse them...Read More »
VIDEO: ‘Serzh Is Not Our Father’; Nearly 200 Demonstrators Detained Across Yerevan (Live Thread)
Early on Friday Pashinyan went live on Facebook to call upon people to join the Velvet Revolution and “show Serzh Sargsyan that he is not in control of the situation.” He urged ...Read More »
Pashinyan Again Rallies Thousands at Republic Square, Plans to ‘Surprise’ Sargsyan Tomorrow
After a short break on Baghramyan, Pashinyan and his thousands of supporters started walking the avenue towards the France Square, where police had begun actively detaining demonstrators...Read More »
Pashinyan Calls for Larger Scale Action
Nikol Pashinyan has returned to the Baghramyan Avenue after having his hands bandaged at the Nairi hospital. The oppositionist was met at the avenue by Yelk bloc...Read More »
VIDEO: Uprising Against Sargsyan’s Appointment as Prime Minister Paralyzes Armenian Capital
Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Yerevan in an uprising against Serzh Sargsyan’s expected appointment as Armenia’s new Prime Minister. Groups of demonstrators...Read More »