Pashinyan Publicly Lashes Out at Displaced Woman from Artsakh on Yerevan Metro

Pashinyan Calls Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian Refugees ‘Runaways’ in Argument on Metro

By Arshaluys Barseghyan Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has faced backlash after calling Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians “runaways” during an argument with a refugee from the region on Sunday. After initially denying that he had used the insult, he later apologized the same evening. The argument, which was caught on video and spread widely across social media, took place on the metro while Pashinyan was conducting his Civil Contract “inter-party campa…

“We have a different map”: Pashinyan outburst sparks backlash

As debate over the detention of an Artsakh woman for a Facebook post intensifies concerns about free speech and hate speech in Armenia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has come under fire over a separate incident involving a woman forcibly displaced from Artsakh during a campaign stop on the Yerevan subway. Video from the event shows Pashinyan becoming visibly agitated after the woman politely declined to join his campaign activity. When he offer…

Pashinyan Publicly Lashes Out at Displaced Woman from Artsakh on Yerevan Metro

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Sunday publicly lashed out at a displaced woman from Artsakh while he and his political allies were riding the Yerevan Metro as part of their weekly pre-election campaign. While on the metro, Pashinyan, who was also accompanied by his bodyguards, engaged in a conversation with a young woman who was riding with her son. Both were among more than 100,000 Armenians who were forcibly displaced from Artsakh when Azer…