Yet another witness in the ongoing trials of prominent Armenian opposition figures claimed on Tuesday to have been forced by police to support the official theory of last year’s post-election violence in Yerevan.
Parliament speaker Hovik Abrahamian strongly hinted on Monday that three of his opposition colleagues arrested following last year’s post-election clashes in Yerevan may be released from prison soon.
Armenia’s Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional on Friday a legal provision allowing electoral authorities to register new voters for this month’s mayoral elections in Yerevan and ignore strong opposition objections.
Samvel Babayan, a former military leader of Nagorno-Karabakh, on Thursday spoke out against the existing international plan to end the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict and claimed that renewed war with Azerbaijan is a real possibility.
Armenia’s leadership remained tight-lipped on Friday about details of a potentially ground-breaking agreement with Turkey despite growing pressure from the domestic opposition concerned about its possible implications.
