17 April –
Protests intensify after
Serzh Sargsyan former President of Armenia is appointed Prime Minister of Armenia, in what opposition figures have described as a "power grab".[4]
22 April – Protest leader
Nikol Pashinyan is arrested by police after a short meeting with Prime Minister Sargsyan, who left after three minutes alleging he was blackmailed to resign.[5]
23 April – Serzh Sargsyan officially resigns as Prime Minister after 11 days of protests and released Pashinyan who was detained yesterday, reportedly stating "The street movement is against my tenure. I am fulfilling your demand," and "You were right; I was wrong".[6]
26 July – The Special Investigative Service (SIS) arrests and charges former
President of ArmeniaRobert Kocharyan with “overthrowing constitutional order of Armenia” in response to the
2008 Armenian presidential election protests in the final weeks of his tenure.[11] That same day, Colonel General
Yuri Khachaturov was indicted on the same charge of disrupting constitutional order during the protests when he was the then-Commander of the Yerevan Garrison.[12]
3 October – Pashinyan fires six members of his cabinet after their respective political parties, the
Armenian Revolutionary Federation and the
Tsarukyan Alliance supported a parliamentary bill which would effectively limit the role of the prime minister in calling snap elections to the
National Assembly.[13]
16 October – Pashinyan resigns in protest of the actions taken by the two parties and promises to serve as the acting head of government until elections are held.
November
1 November – Pashinyan announces that his country will try to begin the process normalizing relations with Turkey without preconditions, saying that recognition of the Armenian genocide is a "security issue", rather than a matter of
Armenian-Turkish relations.[14]
9 December – The
My Step Alliance won the
parliamentary elections with an overwhelming majority of the vote, resulting in the coalition winning 88 of the 132 seats in the assembly.[16]
17 April –
Protests intensify after
Serzh Sargsyan former President of Armenia is appointed Prime Minister of Armenia, in what opposition figures have described as a "power grab".[4]
22 April – Protest leader
Nikol Pashinyan is arrested by police after a short meeting with Prime Minister Sargsyan, who left after three minutes alleging he was blackmailed to resign.[5]
23 April – Serzh Sargsyan officially resigns as Prime Minister after 11 days of protests and released Pashinyan who was detained yesterday, reportedly stating "The street movement is against my tenure. I am fulfilling your demand," and "You were right; I was wrong".[6]
26 July – The Special Investigative Service (SIS) arrests and charges former
President of ArmeniaRobert Kocharyan with “overthrowing constitutional order of Armenia” in response to the
2008 Armenian presidential election protests in the final weeks of his tenure.[11] That same day, Colonel General
Yuri Khachaturov was indicted on the same charge of disrupting constitutional order during the protests when he was the then-Commander of the Yerevan Garrison.[12]
3 October – Pashinyan fires six members of his cabinet after their respective political parties, the
Armenian Revolutionary Federation and the
Tsarukyan Alliance supported a parliamentary bill which would effectively limit the role of the prime minister in calling snap elections to the
National Assembly.[13]
16 October – Pashinyan resigns in protest of the actions taken by the two parties and promises to serve as the acting head of government until elections are held.
November
1 November – Pashinyan announces that his country will try to begin the process normalizing relations with Turkey without preconditions, saying that recognition of the Armenian genocide is a "security issue", rather than a matter of
Armenian-Turkish relations.[14]
9 December – The
My Step Alliance won the
parliamentary elections with an overwhelming majority of the vote, resulting in the coalition winning 88 of the 132 seats in the assembly.[16]