2008 Armenian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Armenia on 19 February 2008. Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan was elected in the first round according to official results, but this was disputed by former President Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who was officially placed second.
Image: S Sarkisyan
Image: Levon ter petrosian
Image: Vahan Hovhannisyan (cropped)
Mass protests on 1 March, after violent beating of peaceful protesters in the morning
Serzh Azati Sargsyan is an Armenian politician who served as the third President of Armenia from 2008 to 2018, and twice as the Prime Minister of Armenia from 2007 to 2008 and again from 17 to 23 April 2018, when he was forced to resign in the 2018 Armenian revolution.
Official portrait, c. 2008–13
Sargsyan and U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton in Yerevan, 4 June 2012
Dmitry Medvedev in Armenia, 20 August 2010
Serzh Sargsyan and Azerbaijan's Ilham Aliyev, 23 January 2012