Artur Vanetsyan

Armenian opposition takes to streets, calls society to 'wake up'

Politics in Armenia

April 28, 2022

Armenian opposition demands the prime minister's resignation and continues a series of indefinite street protests aimed at 'waking up' Armenian society

Armenian PM Pashinyan faces fresh calls to quit days before his talks with Russian president

Politics in Armenia

April 18, 2022

On April 17, leader of the opposition "I Have the Honor" faction Artur Vanetsyan began a sit-in strike in the Freedom square in Yerevan. Why has the internal political situation in Armenia escalated?

Armenian opposition presents 2 candidates for PM, though Pashinyan has no plans to resign

Nikol Pashinyan

December 04, 2020

Most of the united 17 opposition parties propose a single candidate for the head of the transitional government, one of them does not support him and will nominate its leader for this post

Ex-head of Armenian state security service released following charges of plot to assassinate PM

Armenia

November 15, 2020

Artur Vanetsyan's lawyers claimed this was a ‘shameful political persecution’ against the opposition politician

One more detained in alleged attempt to assassinate Armenian PM over Karabakh truce

Armenia

November 15, 2020

Earlier, opposition leader and former head of the National Security Service Artur Vanetsyan was detained for the same alleged plot

Head of Armenian National Security Service quits post in surprise resignation

September 17, 2019

Details from the PM’s four-hour press conference – what to do with the controversial gold mine, how to resolve the Karabakh conflict and the resignation of the country’s second most powerful official