Nikol Pashinyan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Nikol Pashinyan

Prime Minister of Armenia

Date of Birth: 01-Jun-1975

Place of Birth: Ijevan, Tavush Region, Armenia

Profession: writer, politician, journalist

Nationality: Armenia

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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About Nikol Pashinyan

  • Nikol Pashinyan (Armenian: ????? ????????, pronounced [nik?l p???inj?n]; born 1 June 1975) is an Armenian politician serving as Prime Minister of Armenia since 8 May 2018 (as acting Prime Minister from 16 October to 9 December 2018).
  • He is a former journalist and editor. A prominent journalist, Pashinyan first founded his own newspaper in 1998 which was shut down a year later.
  • He was sentenced for one year for defamation against then Minister of National Security Serzh Sargsyan.
  • He edited Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Times) from 1999 to 2012.
  • Sympathetic to Armenia's first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan, he was highly critical of second president Robert Kocharyan, Defense Minister Serzh Sargsyan, and their allied oligarchs.
  • Pashinyan led a minor opposition party in the 2007 parliamentary election, garnering 1.3% of the vote.
  • He was an outspoken supporter of Ter-Petrosyan, when the latter made a political comeback prior to the 2008 presidential election.
  • Ter-Petrosyan was defeated by Serzh Sargsyan in an election marred with widespread vote fraud and violence.
  • Noted for his fiery speeches, Pashinyan had a significant role in the post-election protests which were violently put down by government forces on 1 March 2008 resulting in the deaths of 10 people.
  • Pashinyan, blamed for "organizing mass disorders," went into hiding, only to re-emerge in mid-2009.
  • He was controversially sentenced to seven years in prison; a move that was widely seen as politically motivated.
  • He was released in May 2011 as part of a general amnesty.
  • He was elected to parliament from Ter-Petrosyan's broad opposition coalition, the Armenian National Congress, in 2012. He later broke from Ter-Petrosyan on political grounds, establishing the party Civil Contract.
  • Along with two other opposition parties, Pashinyan formed the Way Out Alliance which garnered almost 8% of the vote in the 2017 parliamentary election.
  • He was the leader of the 2018 Armenian revolution which forced Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan and his government to resign.
  • On 1 May 2018, he failed to gain enough votes from the Parliament to become the Prime Minister himself, but was elected in the second vote on 8 May.

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