Election observers pressured during controversial Armenia vote – official

Tamara Ceaikovski

CIS monitors were allegedly told to destroy a polling-station report, according to a Russian official Observers from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) mission observed numerous issues during Armenia’s controversial parliamentary election on Sunday, including pressure on monitors, opaque military voting, and confusion during ballot counting, a Russian election official has said. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who campaigned on a promise to integrate the land-locked post-