[ last updated 16:04 ] Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian spent four hours at a police station in Yerevan negotiating the release early on Wednesday of a dozen loyalists who were arrested while urging Armenians to take part in his rally scheduled for Friday.
[ last updated 16:06 ] International mediators said they still hope to broker a framework peace accord on Nagorno-Karabakh before the presidential elections in Armenia and Azerbaijan as they began yet another round of regional shuttle diplomacy on Wednesday.
[ last updated 16:10 ] The United States hopes to defuse the latest surge in Turkish-Armenian tensions and will make a fresh attempt to help normalize Turkey’s strained relationship with Armenia, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday.
[ last updated 16:14 ] Zhirayr Sefilian, a prominent Nagorno-Karabakh war veteran and opposition figure controversially jailed last year, will not be released on parole because of his harsh criticism of Armenia’s government, law-enforcement officials confirmed on Wednesday.
[ last updated 16:03 ] “Chorrord Ishkhanutyun” reports that parliament deputies from the governing Republican Party (HHK) have been told by their leaders to minimize their contacts with journalists.
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