[ last updated 08:56 ] Armenia’s two main opposition groups announced Monday that their long-anticipated joint campaign to topple President Robert Kocharian will get underway this Friday, defying an apparent government crackdown on scores of their activists.
[ last updated 15:30 ] Police stood by and watched as a group of well-organized thugs attacked journalists, smashing cameras that caught them throwing eggs and firecrackers at thousands of opposition supporters who demonstrated in downtown Yerevan on Monday.
[ last updated 09:49 ] The governing Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) called on Monday for a compromise agreement with the opposition that would give the latter a say in the country’s governance in return for an end to its campaign for regime change.
[ last updated 18:15 ] The son of Urban Development Minister Ara Aramian has been arrested for his role in the March 12 high-profile gunfight in a café in downtown Yerevan, officials said on Monday.
[ last updated 08:54 ] In an editorial “Aravot” says the future of the Armenian state depends on “how far the authorities will go in reining in the opposition.”
[ last updated 08:56 ] 
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