Pashinyan's Authoritarian Drift in Armenia The latest move by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to seize control of a cement company owned by Gagik Tsarukyan, an opposition leader charged with fraud, has sent shockwaves through Armenia's fragile democratic landscape.
On the surface, this appears as yet another skirmish in the ongoing power struggle between the government and opposition forces.
However, it represents something more insidious – a deliberate attempt to consolidate power and erode any semblance of checks on the executive branch.