Pro-western but populist: how Nikol Pashinyan retained power in Armenia (opens in new tab)

PM secured re-election despite devastating military defeat to Azerbaijan and political and economic pressure from MoscowFor most candidates, campaigning on the loss of an ancestral homeland and advocating reconciliation with a longtime enemy would amount to political suicide. Not in Armenia.On Sunday, the prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, in the Caucasus nation of 3 million people, despite having led Armenia through a devastating military defeat to Azerbaijan just three years ago.