Fri Aug 17 2018

The First 100 Days of Nikol Pashinyan’s Government

Armenia's post Velvet Revolution government came with the promise of snap elections, rooting out corruption and a new style of governance. A look at Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's and his government's first 100 days in office.

Wed Aug 08 2018

Armenia’s New Electoral Code: Part III

By Harout Manougian

In this third part of our series on Electoral Code reforms in Armenia, Harout Manougian looks at the debate about quotas for women and ethnic minorities for the upcoming national elections.

Mon Jul 30 2018

Autocratic Arrogance: Kocharyan’s Arrest, His Apologists and Accountability

By Nerses Kopalyan

Nerses Kopalyan examines and debunks the arguments that the arrest and detention of Armenia’s second President Robert Kocharyan is politically motivated and that the basis of the arrest lacks cogent and substantive legal foundations. Kocharyan has been charged with “overthrowing constitutional order” regarding the events of March 1, 2008 that left ten people dead.