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Armenia polls set to go ahead despite attack

February 5, 2013 11:01
Armenia's presidential elections are set to go ahead as scheduled on February 18 after a candidate injured in an apparent assassination bid said Tuesday he would not press for a delay. Veteran politician and Soviet-era dissident Paruyr Hayrikyan was wounded in the shooting attack last week, in a crime that rocked the political establishment in the Caucasus state. Under the Armenian constitution, Hayrikyan had the right to ask the courts for a two-week delay in the elections. But his lawyer said he would not take up this option.

Armenia presidential candidate wounded in shooting

February 1, 2013 14:45
A prominent candidate in Armenia's presidential elections who was wounded in a gun attack said Friday he would seek a two-week postponement of the polls set for February 18. "Doctors say I must undergo lengthy treatment," Paruyr Hayrikyan, 63, told public television after he was shot in the chest in an attack that shocked the ex-Soviet state. He noted that Armenian law allows polls to be postponed by two weeks if a candidate is deemed to have suffered an insurmountable obstacle.

Armenia presidential candidate wounded in shooting

February 1, 2013 12:00
An unknown attacker shot and wounded a prominent candidate in Armenia's presidential elections, rocking the ex-Soviet state less than three weeks before it goes to the polls, police said Friday. Paruyr Hayrikyan, head of the Union for National Self-Determination, is one of Armenia's best known politicians and a veteran figure who was jailed in Soviet times and then exiled for his promotion of Armenian independence.

Armenia presidential candidate wounded in shooting

February 1, 2013 07:16
An unknown attacker shot and wounded a prominent candidate in Armenia's presidential elections, rocking the ex-Soviet state less than three weeks before it goes to the polls, police said Friday. Paruyr Hayrikyan, head of the Union for National Self-Determination, is one of Armenia's best known politicians and a veteran figure who was jailed in Soviet times and then exiled for his promotion of Armenian independence.
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