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The return of the second president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan to politics started in 2018, and it was predetermined by the criminal case launched against him. Russian political scientist Sergey Markedonov said this during Friday’s Yerevan-Moscow videoconference.

According to him, incumbent Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has violated a very important unwritten rule in Armenia, according to which the outgoing head of state is not persecuted, regardless of who has what personal animosity. "A criminal case [against Kocharyan]—which is highly politicized—has been filed under the rule of the Prime Minister. If we are talking about the former head of state, then it is a de facto politicized case," the analyst stressed.

According to Markedonov, Kocharyan showed that he is a fighter, he is not going to be a passive follower, and returned to politics. "All this led to the fact that now Pashinyan is in a very difficult situation in connection with a possible resignation; that is, if it were not for all this, he could have written memoirs. Now, his leaving [power] is quite dangerous, as he probably thinks that all this may not be limited to memoirs," said the Russian political scientist.

According to him, the Armenian opposition traditionally struggles with each other more—than with the authorities—over who is the main opposition, but Kocharyan is not the figure to play a secondary role.

Markedonov recalled that it was during Robert Kocharyan's presidency that Armenia joined the CSTO and the Customs Union. "And Moscow's assessments are conditioned by that," he concluded.

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