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Pashinyan grabs megaphone as exchange turns heated during election campaign

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has been confronting critics accusing him of giving up Karabakh during the heated election campaign ahead of the elections in June.

In a campagn event in Yerevan, Pashinyan grabbed a megaphone and had a heated exchange with a man from Karabakh who approached him with accusations. Pashinyan has been accusing the critics that they stand in the way of Armenia's peaceful future and economic revival.

Video showed security personnel dragging the man away before Pashinyan picked up a megaphone and shouted at him in front of the crowd.

The man, identified by Armenian media as Arthur Osipyan, was later detained and charged with hooliganism, according to reports.

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