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Ruling Party Defeats Tsarukian In First-Ever Vote Clash
Setting a precedent for the upcoming parliamentary elections, the governing Republican Party (HHK) controversially defeated the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) of businessman Gagik Tsarukian in a Sunday mayoral vote in...
OSCE Kicks Off Armenian Vote Monitoring
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe announced Wednesday the start of its observation mission for the May 12 parliamentary elections in Armenia which it hopes will be more democratic than the ones...
Oskanian Again Issues Election Warning
Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian reiterated on Wednesday his warnings that Armenia will face “very bad consequences” in the international arena if it fails to ensure that its approaching parliamentary elections are...
Yerevan Police Downplay First Pre-Election Violence
Police in Yerevan on Monday confirmed reports about a violent dispute between activists of Armenia’s two main establishment parties, but claimed that none of their senior figures was involved in it. Armenian newspapers...
Opposition Activist Fired By UN
An Armenian employee of the United Nations office in Yerevan claimed on Tuesday to have been fired for his active involvement in a recently formed opposition movement that launched a campaign of anti-government...
Armenian Speaker Declines To Pledge Clean Vote
Parliament speaker Tigran Torosian said on Thursday that the May parliamentary elections will be vital for Armenia’s future but pointedly stopped short of promising that they will be free and fair. Torosian made the...
Parents Of Freed Soldiers See Continued Murder Cover-Up
The parents of three Armenian soldiers controversially charged with murdering two other conscripts three years ago picketed the Office of the Prosecutor-General on Friday, alleging a continuing a high-level cover-up of...
Will Sefilyan Be Set Free After The Elections?
“I don’t think that Zhirayr Sefilyan was as dangerous as to be isolated from the society and kept in the National Security Service”, Albert Bazeyan, leader of the “National Revival” Party says. Mr. Bazeyan finds the...
18 Media Adopted Code Of Conduct
On March 10 Yerevan Press Club hosted a meeting of heads of media and journalistic associations, who supported the YPC initiative to jointly develop the main norms of professional ethics and further follow them in their...
Cassation Court Will Not Consider Babajanyan’s Case
The Cassation Court dismissed the appeal of the advocates of Arman Babajanyan, editor-in-chief of “Zhamanak Yerevan” (Time Yerevan). On March 12, advocates Zarouhy Postanjyan and Hayk Aloumyan held a press conference...