The Armenian Opposition in 2004

On March 2nd, the Caucasus Initiative of the Russia and Eurasia Program at CSIS hosted Aram Karapetyan and Jorj Hakobyan in a seminar entitled “The Armenian Opposition in 2004.” Cory Welt, Visiting Fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Program, chaired the seminar.

Jorj Hakobyan discussed the history of the Social Democratic Party, the party goals, and the Karabakh issue. The Social Democratic Party, founded more than a century ago, was one of the first parties to register in independent Armenia. It joined nine other parties to form the Justice bloc that contested parliamentary elections last year. Hakobyan contended that if those elections had been free and fair, the bloc would have won a majority of seats.