Amid escalating repressions and police brutality in Armenia, the Biden Administration has taken a controversial position: it has unequivocally thrown its weight behind the country’s increasingly autocratic and embattled prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, who has consolidated power to the greatest extent since Armenia’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, and who has overseen the continued deterioration of Armenia’s institutions, security, and sovereignty.
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