Armenian oppositionist urges for president’s prese...

Smbat Ayvazyan of the opposition Republic party has called for President Serzh Sargsyan to visit Yerevan’s Liberty Square for meeting Raffi Hovhannisian, his major rival in last month’s presidential election, who now holds a hunger-strike. Considering the former opposition candidate’s protest an extreme step, Ayvazyan said the current circumstances should urge Sargsyan to head to the protest site for “returning power to the people”. “I have said personally that it isn’t worth going [on a hunger-strike] as that is an extreme step. We still had steps which could have been taken, but the man has made his...