"[13] In 2011, party members marched through downtown Yerevan towards the square named after Stepan Shahumyan, an early Armenian communist revolutionary.

They held banners reading "Socialism", "Long Live the Communist Party of Armenia", "Down with Capitalism", and "Forever with Russia".

It staged a demonstration in support of Russia's "special military operation" to "demilitarise and denazify" Ukraine on March 4.

[17] The party remained a significant political force in the 1990s under its charismatic leader Sergey Badalyan, who died in 1999.

The Armenian Communist Party has contested in every parliamentary election, but has failed to pass the 5% threshold since 2003.