Political analyst Stepan Danielyan says Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan will step up crackdown on dissidents in an effort to maintain his grip on power.
“Nikol has to resort to repression which will further intensify in the future because he has no other choice. It’s a matter of life and death for him; if he loses power he will lose everything else, while he has no other tool to maintain his grip on power,” he wrote on Facebook on Thursday.
“We have no civil society, human rights activists and the like. This bubble burst long ago, let's make it clear too.
“The situation in which the Armenian people have now found themselves is not about politics, but a crisis of values, and it can be settled through a social movement which must bring about a change of values framing them in advance,” he said.