[ last updated 15:35 ] Observers from the Council of Europe on Monday cast serious doubt on the credibility of the official results of Armenia’s weekend referendum which show overwhelming popular support for President Robert Kocharian’s constitutional amendments.
[ last updated 16:40 ] Leaders of Armenia’s governing coalition insisted on Monday that their victory in the constitutional referendum was not the result of massive vote rigging, downplaying irregularities reported by local and foreign observers.
[ last updated 18:34 ] Leaders of Armenia’s main opposition forces refused on Monday to recognize the official outcome of the constitutional referendum which they said raised the country’s post-Soviet culture of electoral fraud to new heights.
[ last updated 18:36 ] Armenia’s state-run Public Radio ruled out on Monday any political reasons for the effective disruption of the RFE/RL Armenian service’s main news program that was broadcast on Sunday evening.
[ last updated 15:47 ] “The people did not take part in the referendum,” reads a headline in “Haykakan Zhamanak.”