Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Armenia

OSCE Criticizes Armenia On Observers

May 7, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has voiced concern over Armenia's refusal to grant entry visas to eight election observers.

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May 07, 2007

The observers, all of Turkish nationality, were due to arrive in Armenia today to monitor the country's parliamentary elections on May 12.

Armenia and Turkey are locked in a bitter dispute over Turkey's refusal to recognize as genocide the killings and deportations of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in 1914-15.

RFE/RL Caucasus Report

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President Serzh Sarkisian has promised fair elections

Prospect Of Vote-Rigging Overshadows Upcoming Armenian Parliamentary Election

The Armenian parliamentary elections due in May will not simply be a struggle between rival political parties with diverging priorities and platforms. More

Alla Dzhioyeva attends a protest by her supporters in Tskhinvali on January 28.

South Ossetian Opposition Leader Hospitalized After Raid

Alla Dzhioyeva, the opposition candidate whose victory in a runoff ballot in November for de facto president of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia was swiftly annulled by the republic's Supreme Court, was taken to a hospital after a raid by some 200 masked security personnel on her headquarters in Tskhinvali. More

Former KGB head Leonid Tibilov is a presidential hopeful.

Repeat South Ossetian Election Campaign Gathers Momentum

The run-up to the repeat election on March 24 for a new de facto president of Georgia's breakaway Republic of South Ossetia bears an uncanny resemblance to last November's election campaign. More