well, my guest today is armenia's prime minister, nikol pashinyan.menia preoccupied with fighting old battles? prime minister nikol pashinyan in yerevan. welcome to hardtalk. thank you. hi. it's more than two years now since you swept into power with very high hopes for the so—called velvet revolution. when i look at armenia today, it seems many armenians feel that those hopes have been dashed. what has gone wrong? i wouldn't agree with your impression, because all armenians — all citizens of armenia — they are seeing and they are living in a democratic country, and with... in 2019, we had the biggest economic growth in europe, and we had big economic success. and our country made tremendous progress in all international ratings in terms of democracy, freedom of speech, independent judiciary, anti—corru ption policy. and international magazines, two years in a row, recognised armenia as country of the year, like, not only in terms of democracy, but in terms of economy, as well. yes, of course, the pandemic situation interrupted our fly, but we will c