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Video. Pashinyan grabs megaphone as exchange turns heated during election campaign

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Political conflict Civil Liberties/Detention Karabakh Dispute
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“Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has been confronting critics accusing him of giving up Karabakh during the heated election campaign ahead of the elections in June.”
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Multiple independent news sources (The Guardian, EuroNews) and Wikipedia confirm that Nikol Pashinyan is the Prime Minister of Armenia.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Snap parliamentary elections were held in Armenia on 9 December 2018, as none of the parties in the National Assembly were able to put forward and then elect a candidate for Prime Minister in the two-…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Armenian_parliamentary_el…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nikol Vovayi Pashinyan (born 1 June 1975) is an Armenian politician who is serving as the 16th and current prime minister of Armenia since 2018. A journalist by profession, Pashinyan founded his own n…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikol_Pashinyan
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստանի Հանրապետության վարչապետ, romanized: Hayastani Hanrapetut’yan varch’apet) is the head of government and most senior minister within th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Armenia
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“Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has been confronting critics accusing him of giving up Karabakh during the heated election campaign ahead of the elections in June.”
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Multiple sources, including Wikipedia and the Robert Lansing Institute, confirm that parliamentary elections are scheduled for June 7, 2026.
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web search NEUTRAL — Armenia has a multi-party system. After the 2015 Armenian constitutional referendum, only a legislature is elected on the national level.The next Armenian parliamentary election is scheduled to occur …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Armenia
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web search NEUTRAL — When Armenians vote in parliamentary elections on 7 June, it will have been almost ten years since elections were last held on schedule. In the decade since the last regular parliamentary elections in…
https://www.commonspace.eu/opinion/opinion-armenian-june-202…
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web search NEUTRAL — The upcoming parliamentary elections in Armenia scheduled for June 7, 2026, represent the most consequential political contest in the country since.
https://lansinginstitute.org/2026/05/18/armenias-parliamenta…
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“In a campagn event in Yerevan, Pashinyan grabbed a megaphone and had a heated exchange with a man from Karabakh who approached him with accusations.”
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While there are reports of Pashinyan having heated exchanges with people (including a woman and others at a church), the specific detail of him grabbing a megaphone to argue with a man from Karabakh at a campaign event is not corroborated by multiple independent sources in the provided evidence; only one specific report mentions a confrontation with a woman and another mentions arrests at a church.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement was an armistice agreement that ended the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. It was signed on 9 November by the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, the Prime …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nagorno-Karabakh_ceasefir…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nikol Vovayi Pashinyan (born 1 June 1975) is an Armenian politician who is serving as the 16th and current prime minister of Armenia since 2018. A journalist by profession, Pashinyan founded his own n…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikol_Pashinyan
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The premiership of Nikol Pashinyan began on May 8, 2018, when Nikol Pashinyan was elected in a 59–42 vote by the National Assembly of Armenia to be the 16th Prime Minister of Armenia. Following the re…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premiership_of_Nikol_Pashinyan
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“Video showed security personnel dragging the man away before Pashinyan picked up a megaphone and shouted at him in front of the crowd.”
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The provided evidence does not contain any specific descriptions or mentions of video footage showing security personnel dragging a man away followed by Pashinyan shouting into a megaphone.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Parliamentary elections will be held in Armenia on 7 June 2026. They will be the first elections after the expulsion of all ethnic Armenians and the Republic of Artsakh from Nagorno-Karabakh by the Az…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Armenian_parliamentary_el…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nikol Vovayi Pashinyan (born 1 June 1975) is an Armenian politician who is serving as the 16th and current prime minister of Armenia since 2018. A journalist by profession, Pashinyan founded his own n…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikol_Pashinyan
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The premiership of Nikol Pashinyan began on May 8, 2018, when Nikol Pashinyan was elected in a 59–42 vote by the National Assembly of Armenia to be the 16th Prime Minister of Armenia. Following the re…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premiership_of_Nikol_Pashinyan
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“The man, identified by Armenian media as Arthur Osipyan, was later detained and charged with hooliganism, according to reports.”
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Two independent sources (NEWS.am and Euromedia24.com) confirm that Arthur Osipyan, an Artsakh native, was arrested following an argument with Nikol Pashinyan, with one source specifically mentioning the charge of hooliganism (though the other disputes the validity of that charge).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of notable Armenians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_Armenians
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 17 July 2016, a group of armed men calling themselves the Daredevils of Sasun (Armenian: Սասնա Ծռեր, romanized: Sasna Tsṙer; the name is taken from an epic poem) stormed a police station in Yerevan…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Yerevan_hostage_crisis
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web search NEUTRAL — There is no hooliganism or other crime in Artur Osipyan's actions. Artur Osipyan voiced political criticism of the candidate Nikol Pashinyan, in response to which he received personal, degrading expre…
https://euromedia24.com/en/post/57326
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