'He's not a populist, he's popular': Nikol Pashinyan becomes Armenian PM
Protest leader elected by parliamentary vote after leading weeks of peaceful demonstrations
Exactly a month ago, Nikol Pashinyan was walking from village to village across Armenia in a desperate protest against a power grab by the country’s prime minister, Serzh Sargsyan.
On Tuesday Pashinyan, a fiery political orator who has spent the past decade in street politics, was himself elected as prime minister in a 59-42 vote in parliament, capping weeks of peaceful mass protests.
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, was among the first to congratulate him. Pashinyan has offered assurances that he
