Nikol Pashinian (Armenian: ) is an Armenian journalist, publicist and senior leader of the opposition movement led by former President of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrossian. He is the editor of Armenia’s best-selling daily newspaper critical of the government, Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Time). As the head editor of the Armenian daily Haikakan Zhamanak (Armenian Times) since 1999, Pashinian has been an important contributor to the discourse of the various movements that have opposed the governments of former President Robert Kocharyan and current President Serzh Sargsyan, whose presidency Pashinian and the opposition reject as illegitimate. In 2000, while he was the head editor of Haikakan Zhamanak he was convicted on charges of defamation and libel against different people.
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1 June 1975 (age 50)
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Zodiac | Gemini |
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