The assassination six months ago of the Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia sent shockwaves around the world.
On April 17, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Artsakh Masis Mayilian received Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk.
Earlier today, Khanjian had sent an open letter on her Facebook page urging Sargsyan to do the right thing and retire from politics.
Scores gathered in Malta on Monday to mark the six-month anniversary of the anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder.
Activists opposed to Serzh Sargsyan as prime minister have been marching through Vanadzor, Armenia’s third largest city.
While Armenia’s National Assembly voted to elect Serzh Sargsyan as the country’s next prime minister, protesters continued to close off streets in downtown Yerevan and elsewhere.
President Sarkissian then wished Sargsyan success and productive work.
Thousands have gathered in Yerevan’s Republic Square to attend an anti-Serzh Sargsyan rally.
Armenia’s National Assembly has elected Serzh Sargsyan the country’s new prime minister by a vote of 77 to 17.
Serzh Sargsyan, Armenia’s ex-president on the verge of being elected its new prime minister, told voting National Assembly deputies that history would be the true judge of his tenure as the country’s leader.
Karo Ghukasyan, one of the 33, told Hetq by phone that they were being kept like “captives”.
They threw me to the ground and kicked me, yelling out terrible sexual expletives. They spat on me three times.
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Hetq’s reporter on the scene says that the officers are being stationed outside the British Embassy on Baghramyan Avenue.
Nikol Pashinyan, who’s spearheaded this week’s anti-Serzh Sargsyan protests in Armenia, has declared the start of a “democratic, non-violent velvet revolution” in the country.
Mr. Serzh Sargsyan, modesty, even in politics, is not a weakness. It is a human force and quality that opens the way for choice and that's what your country, my nation is asking you to consider.
Police in Armenia have accused Nikol Pashinyan of disregarding their order to call off today’s rally in opposition to Serzh Sargsyan becoming the next prime minister of Armenia, warning him and others that the Police are legally sanctioned to take any and all measures necessary to restore public order in Yerevan if and when necessary.
Those detained are being kept at various police stations in Yerevan.
Those opposing Sargsyan’s nomination have gathered at the foot of Baghramyan Avenue. Their access to the National Assembly has been cut off by razor wire, armored personnel carriers and scores of police in riot gear.
Here’s a live feed from Baghramyan Avenue and Liberty Square in Yerevan
According to news circulating among the public and information transferred to the media, gathering of tall men in plain clothes has been observed today in Erebuni District of Yerevan.
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