About 15K march to call for leader’s resignation

About 15,000 protesters calling for the resignation of Armenia’s prime minister marched through the capital Saturday as pressure intensified after the country’s president rejected his order to dismiss the chief of the military general staff.

Protests against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan arose in November after he signed a cease-fire ending a six-week war with Azerbaijan over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. The agreement saw Armenia lose control of territories in Azerbaijan it had held for more than 25 years.

Nikol Pashinyan