[ last updated 16:45 ] Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian said on Wednesday that his offer to form a new, more broad-based coalition government has met with a positive response from some of the Armenian opposition leaders who challenged him in last week’s presidential election.
[ last updated 16:48 ] Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian told tens of thousands of his supporters Wednesday to continue to challenge the official results of Armenia’s controversial presidential election, dismissing President Robert Kocharian’s threats to end the non-stop demonstrations by force.n (UPDATED)
[ last updated 16:50 ] At least three of the allies of former President Levon Ter-Petrosian arrested in recent days have been remanded in pre-trial custody on a string of criminal charges which the Armenian opposition rejects as politically motivated.
[ last updated 16:53 ] The United States said on Wednesday that it has donated $3 million worth of additional equipment to the special peacekeeping battalion of Armenia’s armed forces that sends troops to Iraq and Kosovo.
[ last updated 16:44 ] “Aravot” predicts that authorities will use force to disperse opposition crowds in Yerevan’s Liberty Square “in the coming days.”