Nikol Pashinyan is an Armenian politician serving as the 16th Prime Minister of Armenia (since 1991) since 8 May 2018 and previously as acting Prime Minister from 16 October to 9 December 2018. He is a former journalist and editor.

A prominent journalist, Pashinyan first founded his own newspaper in 1998 which was shut down a year later. He was sentenced for one year for defamation against then Minister of National Security Serzh Sargsyan. He edited Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Times) from 1999 to 2012. Sympathetic to Armenia's first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan, he was highly critical of second president Robert Kocharyan, Defense Minister Serzh Sargsyan, and their allied oligarchs. Pashinyan led a minor opposition party in the 2007 parliamentary election, garnering 1.3% of the vote.

Source: Wikipedia - Nikol Pashinyan