Pashinyan calls church 'agent of influence' amid protests

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that the Armenian Apostolic Church has been an "agent of influence" since historical times against the backdrop of rallies of the opposition movement "Tavush for the Name of the Motherland," led by Archbishop Bagrat, Report informs via TASS.

"The Armenian people had an experience when they (the clergy) went to Caesarea (a city in Byzantium where the Armenian Catholicoses were blessed in the early Middle Ages) and were anointed, and when they came to Armenia, they became agents of influence. It seems that nothing changed for them since that time. But we will resolve this issue in two to three months," he said.