... clashes, never establishing deeply echeloned defenses despite having 26 years at their disposal.
The Pashinyan era
When the post-Soviet transition in Armenia came to a revolutionary halt and the Azerbaijani Armenians were replaced in the leadership by Nikol Pashinyan’s team, it soon became clear that the sense of security harbored by the new elites extended to the country’s entire foreign policy. One of Yerevan’s first foreign policy moves after the 2018 Velvet Revolution was the detention of ...
Aiming to solve the conflict by force, Aliyev used the conducive international environment as well as the shortsighted diplomacy of Nikol Pashinyan to wage the war, not leaving it for the years to come, when the balance of power could be restored
The Karabakh issue has always been an issue shaping Armenian politics. In September 2020, Azerbaijan
initiated
large-scale hostilities ...
... Prime Minister.
As massive crowds packed Yerevan’s Republic Square
, the veteran Armenian politician ultimately bowed to popular pressure and
stepped aside on April 23
. The second phase of the April Revolution saw the ascendancy of
protest leader Nikol Pashinyan
to the Prime Minister’s office. Pashinyan’s proposed electoral reform promises to pave the way for a more competitive political system in Armenia, breaking the monopoly of the ruling Republican Party, which has dominated Armenian politics ...