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Pjotr Sauer in Yerevan

Pro-western but populist: how Nikol Pashinyan retained power in Armenia

Pashinyan makes a heart gesture with his hands, smiling at the camera
Pashinyan makes the hand-heart gesture that has become the symbol of his movement. Photograph: Karen Minasyan/AFP/Getty Images

For most candidates, campaigning on the loss of an ancestral homeland and advocating reconciliation with a longtime enemy would amount to political suicide. Not in Armenia.

On Sunday, the prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, secured re-election in the Caucasus nation of 3 million people, despite having led Armenia through a devastating military defeat to Azerbaijan just three years ago.

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