[ last updated 16:02 ] The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) on Thursday condemned the Armenian authorities’ post-election crackdown on the opposition and warned that failure to reverse it would put at risk Armenia’s full membership in the Strasbourg-based organization.
[ last updated 16:04 ] An independent television station based in Armenia’s second city of Gyumri was on Thursday allowed to resume broadcasts suspended the previous day as a result of its politically charged dispute with the local authorities.
[ last updated 16:06 ] A court in Yerevan sentenced on Thursday the chairman of a district election commission to two years in prison for committing serious fraud in Serzh Sarkisian’s favor during the recent presidential election.
[ last updated 16:08 ] Vazgen Manukian, a veteran Armenian politician, expressed readiness on Monday to closely cooperate with the newly elected President Serzh Sarkisian but insisted that he has not been offered any government positions in return.
[ last updated 16:00 ] “It is pathetic that the West continues to insist that [the government] must start a dialogue with the opposition,” Artyom Khachatrian, a political commentator, tells “Hayots Ashkhar.”
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