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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan resigns over Nagorno-Karabakh criticism

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who was swept to power in pro-democracy protests in 2018, has triggered an early election to try to overcome criticism over his handling of last year’s conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. His resignation came a day after US President Joe Biden said that massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 […]

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Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan warns of military coup after army asked him to resign

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has warned of an “attempted military coup”, after the nation’s armed forces asked him and his cabinet to resign. The army “must obey the people and elected authorities,” he told thousands of supporters in the capital Yerevan. “The army is not a political institution and attempts to involve it in […]