Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian returned from Moscow on Friday, refusing to disclose important details of what he called a “private and confidential” visit that involved “several good meetings.”
Riot police used force to stop opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian and thousands of his supporters from marching towards the presidential palace in Yerevan on Tuesday at the end of daylong protests against President Serzh Sarkisian’s inauguration for a second term. (UPDATED)
Supporters and opponents of Raffi Hovannisian scuffled in the southeastern Armenian town of Kapan on Monday as the opposition leader held a rally there at the start of a new nationwide campaign of post-election protests.
A top candidate of an opposition bloc set up to contest Yerevan’s upcoming elections says joining a broader anti-fraud coalition will only be meaningful if it undertakes to make ‘real and substantial’ steps rather than engages in another ‘imitation’.
A major opposition party contesting Yerevan’s upcoming municipal vote has again called for broader cooperation among non-government forces to prevent electoral fraud and eventually form new authorities in the Armenian capital.
Holding another rally in Yerevan, opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian on Friday demanded snap parliamentary elections and other serious government concessions in what he described as his last compromise proposal to President Serzh Sarkisian.
Riot police used force on Thursday to prevent supporters of opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian from pitching a tent at the site of his continuing hunger strike against official results of Armenia’s presidential election.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leader of a coalition of Europe’s main conservative parties for welcoming President Serzh Sarkisian’s disputed reelection as he continued his hunger strike in Yerevan on Wednesday.
Raffi Hovannisian, the official runner-up in Armenia’s presidential election, sought to keep up pressure on Serzh Sarkisian on Friday, again rallying supporters in Yerevan and demanding the incumbent president’s resignation.
Hundreds of opposition supporters laid flowers at a square in downtown Yerevan on Friday to mark the fifth anniversary of a bloody post-election unrest that left ten people dead and more than 100 others injured.
President Serzh Sarkisian and his main election challenger, Raffi Hovannisian, met behind the closed doors on Thursday to discuss opposition demands for the annulment of the official vote results that gave victory to the incumbent. (UPDATED)
Armenians went to the polls on Monday in a presidential election which was widely expected to give President Serzh Sarkisian a second five-year term in office. (UPDATED)
Campaigning in Armenia’s presidential election officially drew to a close on Saturday, with President Serzh Sarkisian again lavishing praise on his main challengers just one day after accusing them of irresponsible populism.
The Central Election Commission (CEC) on Tuesday publicly tested new ink for special passport stamps that are supposed to prevent multiple fraudulent voting in next week’s Armenian presidential election.
Paruyr Hayrikian, the opposition candidate recovering from a gunshot wound, warned on Thursday that he may reconsider his decision not to seek a postponement of Armenia’s presidential election because of his health condition and “slanderous” attacks from opponents.
Presidential candidate Paruyr Hayrikian announced on Tuesday that he will not seek to delay Armenia’s upcoming presidential election because of an apparent assassination attempt, meaning that it will be held as planned on February 18. (UPDATED)
Raffi Hovannisian, a leading opposition presidential candidate, on Friday threatened to declare the February 18 election illegitimate if President Serzh Sarkisian does not stop what he called serious irregularities.
The Armenian authorities have angrily rejected serious concerns over the pre-election situation in Armenia that were expressed last week by lawmakers representing the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE).
One of the eight candidates in Armenia’s presidential election went on hunger strike on Monday to demand that President Serzh Sarkisian be disqualified from the race.
President Serzh Sarkisian and seven other candidates were formally registered on Monday to run in Armenia’s upcoming presidential election.
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