[ last updated 17:09 ] Hrant Dink, a high-profile Turkish-Armenian editor convicted of insulting Turkey's identity, was shot dead outside his newspaper office in Istanbul on Friday.
[ last updated 17:13 ] Defense Minister Serzh Sarkisian pledged on Friday to seek “punishment” for some of the judges that have handed down diametrically opposite verdicts in the saga of three Armenian soldiers controversially accused of double murder.
[ last updated 17:15 ] Justice Minister David Harutiunian on Friday sought to end speculation about his participation in the next Armenian presidential election, saying he harbors no ambitions to succeed President Robert Kocharian in 2008.
[ last updated 17:16 ] Defense Minister Serzh Sarkisian insisted on Friday he will not force tens of thousands of army conscripts to vote for his Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
[ last updated 17:08 ] “What is now called opposition in Armenia is very reminiscent of non-governing parties that operated during [Communist] times in Poland or East Germany,” editorializes “Aravot.”
[ last updated 17:09 ] 
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