Planned talks between government and protestors fail to materialise, but talks continue with president Sarkissian. Parliament will meet on 1 May to elect a new prime minister.

Ivanishvili, the founder of the Georgian Dream party, the political movement that has led Georgia since 2012, will return to the centre-stage of Georgian politics, assuming the role of party chairman. The move is expected to take place at the party congress on in May.

It is likely that opposition parties will rally around one of the leaders of the protest movement, although it is understood that apart from the candidacy of Nikol Pashinyan other options are being considered.

Nikol Pashinyyan, the leader of street protests who earlier forced the resignation of prime minister Serzh Sargsyan is insisting that a new prime minister is appointed who is not a member of the ruling Republican Party, to pave the way for early elections

Armenians throughout the world mark Genocide Day on 24 April - remembering those killed in the attrocities committed in Anatolia in the last days of the Ottoman Empire in 1915

The co-Chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Process dealing with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict issued a statement on Monday afternoon (23 April) calling on the sides in the conflict to take iommediate steps to reduce tensions.

"No Armenian politician can take the Armenian people for granted any more. They have won against all the odds", writes Dennis sammut in this week's Monday commentary

Serzj Sargsyan,who has been Armenia's strongman for over a decade has resigned from the post of prime minister following days of street protests in the capital Yerevan and throughout the country.

Addressing the gathering of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Georgian president Giorgi Margvelashvili called on NATO to implement countermeasures against Russia's renewed cold war approach

"All those who have been detained while exercising their fundamental right of assembly in accordance with the law must be released immediately", said a statement issued in Brussels by the European Union