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Armenia’s peaceful protester takes power in a bloodless revolution

Protesters in Yerevan on May 2 wave the Armenian flag from a truck displaying a photograph of opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan, who was appointed interim Prime Minister days later

ON MAY 8, PRO-DEMOCRACY PROTESTER Nikol Pashinyan was appointed interim Prime Minister of Armenia, the tiny Moscow-friendly former Soviet state bordering Turkey, Georgia, Iran and Azerbaijan. Pashinyan, 42, has been praised

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