[ last updated 17:40 ] Tens of thousands of people defied a government ban to rally in Yerevan on Friday in what the Armenian opposition described as the start of “permanent” street protests against President Robert Kocharian.
[ last updated 10:11 ] Public transport communication between Yerevan and the rest of Armenia was again brought to a virtual halt by the authorities on Friday as the opposition prepared for a key street protest in its campaign for regime change.
[ last updated 17:37 ] Urban Development Minister Ara Aramian stepped down on Friday following the scandalous arrest of his son accused of involvement in a high-profile gunfight in a Yerevan café earlier this month.
[ last updated 17:36 ] “Iravunk” claims that the governing coalition has stopped short of “acting like Robert Kocharian’s support base.”
[ last updated 17:40 ] 
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