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“I will resign in April — not to leave power, but to hold early parliamentary elections. I will continue to act as prime minister” as head of the Cabinet, Pashinyan said Sunday in a meeting with residents of the village of Aragats.

In its Soviet heyday, the Aragats Cosmic Ray Research Station in Armenia hosted up to 100 scientists who probed the high-energy particles that come from space.

On Mount Aragats, that hero is Artash Petrosyan, 70, who has been cooking at the station for 32 years.

On the windy flanks of Mount Aragats, a biblical-sounding massif in Armenia, an old man — a cook — shuffles through a sprawling array of oddly shaped, empty buildings.

Mountaintop aeries like the Aragats Cosmic Ray Research Station receded in the quest for ultimate knowledge.