Marc Cooper
Next Sunday, on December 9, Armenians are expected to further
consolidate their unique and vastly underreported “Velvet Revolution.”
On that day, acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s “My Step” alliance
is expected to win a large governing majority in the country’s
parliament.(*)
Though this has been barely reported, if it all, in most of the
Western media, for the past seven months, landlocked Armenia, with only 3
million inhabitants, has flickered as a small light of hope and
progressive democratic change in a Europe increasingly shadowed by
authoritarian and dictatorial forces—especially in most of the former
Soviet-bloc states of Eastern Europe.
