Nikol Pashinyan (Armenian: Նիկոլ Փաշինյան) is an Armenian journalist, publicist and senior leader of the opposition movement led by former President of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrossian. He is the editor of Armenia’s best-selling daily newspaper critical of the government, Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Time). As the head editor of the Armenian daily Haikakan Zhamanak (Armenian Times) since 1999, Pashinyan has been an important contributor to the discou...
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Nikol Pashinyan (Armenian: Նիկոլ Փաշինյան) is an Armenian journalist, publicist and senior leader of the opposition movement led by former President of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrossian. He is the editor of Armenia’s best-selling daily newspaper critical of the government, Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Time). As the head editor of the Armenian daily Haikakan Zhamanak (Armenian Times) since 1999, Pashinyan has been an important contributor to the discourse of the various movements that have opposed the governments of former President Robert Kocharyan and current President Serzh Sargsyan, whose presidency Pashinyan and the opposition reject as illegitimate. In 2000, while he was the head editor of Haikakan Zhamanak he was convicted on charges of defamation and libel against different people.
Pashinyan is the main contributor to the samizdat, and underground newspaper, called Payqar! which has developed into one of the opposition movement's more important organs.
Pashinyan went into hiding...
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