The Republican Party of Armenia is a national-conservative political party in Armenia led by the third president of Armenia,Serzh Sargsyan.
Serzh Azati Sargsyan is an Armenian politician who served as the third President of Armenia from 2008 to 2018,and twice as the Prime Minister of Armenia from 2007 to 2008 and again from 17 to 23 April 2018,when he was forced to resign in the 2018 Armenian revolution.
Shavarsh Vladimiri (Vladimirovich) Karapetyan is a retired former Soviet finswimmer,best known for saving the lives of 20 people in a 1976 incident in Yerevan.
Armen Vardani Sarkissian is an Armenian politician,physicist,investor,businessman,and computer scientist who served as the 4th president of Armenia from 2018 to 2022. He also served as Prime Minister of Armenia from 1996 to 1997. He was the first president of post-Soviet Armenia born in the former Armenian SSR.
Ukrainian–Armenian relations are bilateral diplomatic relations between Ukraine and Armenia,which were established on 25 December 1991. Until then,both were member republics of the Soviet Union. Today,the countries are both members of the World Trade Organization,Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe,the United Nations,and the Eastern Partnership initiative of the EU. Currently,Ukraine has the 5th largest Armenian community in the world. The Embassy of Armenia in Kyiv opened in 1993. The Embassy of Ukraine in Yerevan opened in 1996. The current Ambassador of Armenia to Ukraine is Vladimir Karapetyan. The current Ambassador of Ukraine to Armenia is Ivan Khukhta.
Presidential elections were held in Armenia on 19 February 2008. Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan was elected in the first round according to official results,but this was disputed by former President Levon Ter-Petrosyan,who was officially placed second.
The People's Party is a political party in Armenia which was founded in 1995.
Nikol Vovayi Pashinyan is an Armenian politician serving as the prime minister of Armenia since 8 May 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.
Karen Vilhelmi Karapetyan is an Armenian politician who was Prime Minister of Armenia from September 2016 until April 2018. He was previously Mayor of Yerevan,the capital,from 2010 to 2011. He was appointed prime minister by President Serzh Sargsyan on 13 September 2016 and held office until 9 April 2018. Karapetyan served as first deputy prime minister from 17 April to 23 April 2018,when he was appointed acting prime minister following the resignation of Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan. He held this position until the election of Nikol Pashinyan as prime minister on 8 May 2018.
The 2011 Armenian protests were a series of civil demonstrations aimed at provoking political reforms and concessions from both the government of Armenia and the civic government of Yerevan,its capital and largest city. Protesters demanded President Serzh Sargsyan release political prisoners,prosecute those responsible for the deaths of opposition activists after the 2008 presidential election and institute democratic and socioeconomic reforms,including the right to organise in Freedom Square in downtown Yerevan. They also protested against Yerevan Mayor Karen Karapetyan for banning the opposition from Freedom Square and barring vendors and traders from the city streets. The opposition bloc Armenian National Congress,which has played a major role in organising and leading the demonstrations,had also called for a snap election and the resignation of the government.
Union for National Self-Determination is an Armenian political party. It was founded in 1987 by Paruyr Hayrikyan,a Soviet dissident seeking independence for Armenia.
Samvel Karapetyan is a Russian-Armenian billionaire businessman who owns the Tashir Group conglomerate.
The following lists events that occurred in 2018 in Armenia.
The 2018 Armenian Revolution,most commonly known in Armenia as #MerzhirSerzhin,was a series of anti-government protests in Armenia from April to May 2018 staged by various political and civil groups led by a member of the Armenian parliament —Nikol Pashinyan. Protests and marches took place initially in response to Serzh Sargsyan's third consecutive term as the most powerful figure in the government of Armenia,later broadening against the ruling Republican Party,who were in power since 1999. Pashinyan declared it a Velvet Revolution.
Snap parliamentary elections were held in Armenia on 20 June 2021. The elections had initially been scheduled for 9 December 2023,but were called earlier due to a political crisis following the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War and an alleged attempted coup in February 2021.
Sasna Tsrer Pan-Armenian Party is an Armenian national conservative political party that was founded in September 2018 in the wake of the country's Velvet Revolution.
The European Party of Armenia (EPA) is a pro-European political party in Armenia. It was founded on 6 November 2018 by Tigran Khzmalyan. The party supports Armenia's accession process to the European Union and NATO.
The ORO Alliance,also known as the Ohanyan-Raffi-Oskanian Alliance,was an Armenian political alliance formed by the merger of the Unity and Heritage Parties and the former Minister of Defence Seyran Ohanyan to run in the 2017 Armenian parliamentary election.
The National Democratic Pole also known as the National Democratic Alliance or the National Democratic Party,is an Armenian political alliance between the Sasna Tsrer Pan-Armenian Party,the National Progress Party of Armenia,as well as,several independent politicians. The European Party of Armenia was a founding member,but withdrew from the alliance in May 2021.
The Homeland Salvation Movement was an Armenian political alliance,consisting of several opposition political parties,led by Vazgen Manukyan.
