[ last updated 14:25 ] The U.S. State Department has described Armenia’s recent presidential election as “significantly flawed,” effectively distancing itself from the vote’s largely positive assessment by Western observers.
[ last updated 14:27 ] Officials from the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) believe that the Armenian authorities have so far failed to comply with its recent resolution that demanded an end to the post-election crackdown on the opposition, a senior Armenian lawmaker said on Wednesday.
[ last updated 14:29 ] Eleven Armenian veterans of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh continued a collective hunger strike on Wednesday to demand the release of fellow supporters of opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian arrested in the wake of last February’s presidential election.
[ last updated 14:22 ] “Ironically, Serzh Sarkisian has become also responsible for the monstrous system of falsifications that was created during the rule of his main political rival, Levon Ter-Petrosian,” Ruben Hakobian, a former senior member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), tells “Aravot.”
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