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Armenia: Presidential Election Monitor 2008

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 @ 19:40 UTC

by Onnik Krikorian

Countries:: Russia, Armenia
Topics:: Elections, International Relations, Politics

With the prime minister campaigning for next week's presidential election in Armenia, a significant opposition party declared its support for a former president running for the vote who reportedly paid a visit to Moscow the night before probably to drum up support for his bid to return to power. All in all an interesting day as reported on my Armenia Election Monitor 2008.

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