The US-based security firm Mandiant has released a report detailing hacking it says was conducted by a cyber unit of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The report alleges that the group of hackers, dubbed Advanced Persistent Threat 1 (APT1), has been conducting cyber espionage “against a broad range of victims since at least 2006.”
“On February 18 you proved that the citizens of Armenia are worthy of a better life and government. This was an uprising against injustice, hopelessness and the exodus,” Rustamian declared.
Addressing the throngs of supporters today in Yerevan’s Freedom Square, Raffi Hovannisian said that a yesterday’s meeting at the Presidential Place Serzh Sargsyan refused to recognize the “victory of the people”.
“We will only register a victory when we have been able to force the regime into confessing the violations they have committed and when the government declares the official elections results as invalid,” he told the crowds.
Singer-songwriter Ruben Hakhverdyan took the microphone and told the throngs attending the rally in Freedom Square “that the people have instinctively assembled to rid themselves of the regime, of these wolves.”
Pashinyan argued that while Sargsyan has maintained his grip on power, he hasn’t secured the legitimacy that he so longs for and that he hasn't been able to turn the bloody page of March 1, 2008
Thousands have gathered at Yerevan’s Freedom Square in support of Raffi Hovannisian, the candidate who says he and not Serzh Sargsyan, was victorious in the February 18 presidential election.
Top-ranking members of the ARF shared the podium at this evening’s rally in Freedom Square in support of Raffi Hovannisian’s bid to be declared the legitimately elected president of Armenia.
Today Raffi K. Hovannisian has taken part in separate meetings with US Ambassador John Heffern and later with Head of OSCE/ODIHR Observation Mission to Armenia, Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini.
They asked me why Serzh Sargsyan lost in Arabkir. I told them I didn’t know. I said I was never the president of the election committee or the head of the local campaign HQ.
Commenting on the Armenian Presidential election on February 18, Britain's Minister for Europe said it marks another step forward in democratic development
Protesters gathered outside the OSCE office in Yerevan, demanding that the organization’s election observers immediately leave Armenia.
Our results strongly indicate that the final outcome of February 2013 election was subject to massive manipulations and interference and did not reflect the free will of the Armenian citizens.
On February 18, 2013, Armenia held Presidential elections. The next day, the Central Election Commission announced the primary results, which do not reflect the voters' will. According to the CEC, Raffi Hovannisian received 37% of the votes, to Serzh Sargsyan's 58%. Even according to CEC numbers, Serzh Sargsyan lost in most of urban polling stations. His overall win seems to have been secured by some rural areas that registered more than...
More than a decade after efforts began to build a museum memorializing the mass slaughter of Armenians during World War I, litigation over the failure of those efforts has consumed everyone involved.
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