During the previous four and a half years, democracy in Armenia has undergone consistent and methodical degradation. Nikol Pashinyan, who came to power in a democratic way with a revolutionary, i.e., at least one-faced perception, has become an authoritarian leader with all the characteristic features over the years. First of all, he implemented all the steps for which he had been criticizing the previous authorities for decades, and largely due to that he came to power.