The immediate cause came on Feb. 25, when Onik Gasparyan, Chief of General Staff of the Armenian Army, and other senior commanders released a statement calling for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to step down. Pashinyan responded by firing Gasparyan.
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Opposition supporters rally outside the National Assembly building to demand the Prime Minister's resignation over his handling of last year's war with Azerbaijan, in Yerevan on Feb. 27, 2021.
