[ last updated 18:08 ] The month-long campaigning for Armenia’s parliamentary elections officially drew to a close on Thursday, with the main contenders making final appeals to voters and getting ready for what promises to be a tense balloting.
[ last updated 18:10 ] President Robert Kocharian expressed hope late Thursday that Armenians will hand political parties loyal to him a comfortable majority in the parliament that will be elected on Saturday.
[ last updated 18:13 ] Armenian authorities threatened on Thursday to prosecute organizers of the previous night’s opposition demonstration in Yerevan that was marred by violent clashes between some of its participants and security forces and heightened political tension ahead of Saturday’s parliamentary elections.
[ last updated 18:15 ] Aleksandr Arzumanian, a former foreign minister striving for regime change in Armenia, was remanded in pre-trial custody on Thursday after being formally charged with politically motivated money laundering.
[ last updated 18:07 ] “Aravot” notes that of all establishment parties only the Republicans have born full responsibility for “numerous vicious phenomena” that have been registered in Armenia not only in the past four years but during the country’s entire post-Soviet period.
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