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What you need to know about Armenia’s Velvet Revolution
Tens of thousands of Armenians flooded the streets of Yerevan in April, demanding the resignation of then–Prime Minister Serj Sargsyan.
He’d just served two terms as the president, during which he and his parliamentary allies changed the constitution to make Armenia a parliamentary system. The move was widely seen as a power grab and sparked massive demonstrations.
Sargsyan stepped down after 11 days of protests, and days later, opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan, a charismatic former journalist, was sworn in as the new prime minister.
Richard Giragosian, a political analyst at a Yerevan-based think tank, spoke with Anthony Bourdain last fall about Armenian history and the lasting effects of the 1915 genocide—a characterization Turkey denies to this day.
Explore Parts Unknown’s Danielle Renwick caught up with Giragosian in the days after Armenia’s “Velvet Revo