Nikol Pashinyan

Nikol Vovayi Pashinyan

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Prime Minister of Armenia since 2018

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Prime Minister of Armenia since 2018

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Nikol Vovayi Pashinyan is an Armenian politician who is serving as the 16th and current prime minister of Armenia since 2018. A journalist by profession, Pashinyan founded his own newspaper in 1998, which was shut down a year later for libel. He was sentenced for one year for defamation against then Minister of National Security Serzh Sargsyan. He edited the newspaper Haykakan Zhamanak from 1999 to 2012. A supporter of Armenia's first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan, he was highly critical of second president Robert Kocharyan, Defense Minister Serzh Sargsyan, and their allies. Pashinyan was also critical of Armenia's close relations with Russia, and promoted establishing closer relations with Turkey instead. He led a minor opposition party in the 2007 parliamentary election, garnering 1.3% of the vote.

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