As the sun set over the Armenian capital of Yerevan on May 2nd, opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan made his way into the city’s central Republic Square to address a crowd of some 150,000 people. For almost three weeks, many of them had served alongside Pashinyan in a unprecedented and peaceful campaign of civil disobedience against the sitting government.Their new marching orders? Stand down.“We will now stop our actions for a while and rest,” Pashinyan told his diverse, but largely youthful congregation of supporters. Their “velvet revolution,” as the movement came to be known, seemed to be over. The ruling Republican …read more
Source: The New Republic
