He was the editor of Armenia's best-selling daily liberal newspaper, The Armenian Times, which has always been highly critical of the governments of Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan. [...]
In 2004, Pashinyan's car - parked just outside The Armenian Times office in downtown Yerevan - burst into flames after an apparent explosion.
Pashinyan has said the blast was an assassination attempt engineered by a wealthy businessman, Gagik Tsarukian.
Not long before the explosion, Pashinyan's newspaper published a story that accused Tsarukian of illegally cutting down trees to build a villa in an Armenian resort town. [...]
Way Out is a merger of Civil Contract, Bright Armenia, and Republic political parties that together form the opposition in Armenia's parliament. It has nine out of 105 seats in the National Assembly.
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