Of course, people were tired of the government in power, that is, the Republican Party of Armenia. This is what second President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan said in an interview with RBK, talking about the reasons behind the ‘Velvet Revolution’ that took place in Armenia in 2018.

“However, I believe there was a clear trend of a wave of populism which, by the way, passed across Europe over the past years, and this was probably due to the development of social networks and decentralization of the information field. The authorities didn’t manage to adapt their political toolkit to this situation. The forces that took advantage of this situation were managing the seeming information chaos rather well, and, of course, they are technologies that are used the right way. If we recall the events in 2018, it was a certain drive to go out and make a change, close streets, etc. I believe this was a good and literately used technology. Of course, if there was no disappointment, the technology would be useless,” he said.