Acting Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan was recognized as the “Politician of the Year” in 2018 as a result of the vote of the readers of the Russian “Vedomosti” newspaper, the newspaper reports.

The other candidates for Politician of the Year are the Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, US President Donald Trump, the president of North Korea Kim Jong Un and President of the Republic of Asia Valentin Konovalov:

The magazine refers to the Velvet Revolution, the victory of the Pashinyan-led force in the NA extraordinary parliamentary elections.