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Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Yerevan on Thursday to protest against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and demand he step down. They are angry at the Armenian government’s further territorial concessions to neighbouring Azerbaijan after the loss of the war over disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The demonstrators, led by the Archbishop of Tavush, Bagrat Galstanyan, demanded Pashinyan’s resignation, a dpa reporter at the scene saw. Galstanyan initially called on Pashinyan to resign within an hour, but the ultimatum went unanswered, so he vowed to take further measures. The d…

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