"The U.S. believes Armenian President's assurances to conduct the best elections in the history of independent Armenia. We want to see whether these assurances are grounded or not," said Mr Eric Rubin.

The Central Election Commission has provided election districts with seals, stamps, envelopes reading glasses ahead of the Sunday's parliamentary elections.

The participants will sum up the activity of the electoral headquarters which is tasked to ensure public control in Sunday's parliamentary elections

Even though the Arevut village of Aragatsotn province has 133 residents, there are 164 voters registered in the village's voter list.

Every political party will be provided with the tapes filmed by the proxies of each participating political party.

The POLITLOGOS Situation Analysis and Political Predictions Club of the UPA will hold the fifth plenary session of public hearings on May 4.

A dispute began during deputy candidate Manuk gasparyan's meeting with voters at precinct N 50 and led to clashes and a gunshot.

"We want to restore order and make everyone law-abiding, as all people are equal before law," said Jora Mkrtchyan.

The meeting was attended by Tigran Petrosyan and Hrachya Aghabekyan, representatives of Poghosyan's election headquarters.

According to an eyewitness, people complained that their names were not included in the lists.

The training that started on 15 April was held throughout the country for some 14,000 election officials.

The Hungarian parliament chose on Wednesday Janos Ader, a European Parliament lawmaker, to be the country's next president.

The Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) is not ready to become opposition after the May 6 parliamentary elections.

Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly Samvel Nikoyan had to postpone the NA session due to lack of quorum.

"Even if I garner little public support, I shall try to be useful to my country and its people," said Mr Tsarukyan

On April 28, a temporary exhibition "The Armenian Genocide: Frontpage Coverage in the Foreign Media" was opened in the hall of the Capuchins' church in Beirut.

Serzh Sargsyan today held pre-election meetings with residents of Kotayk and Gegharkunik provinces.

Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland has warned that close and non-transparent relationships between media and governments are a risk to pluralistic societies.

Politicians must restore slipping public confidence through fair elections and commitment to reform.

"Heritage cannot have concluded a deal with the authorities, its only coalition partner is Armenian people," says Arman Musheghyan.

"Not only do we deny the allegations, but we also condemn any attempt to offer bribes to voters," reads the OYK statement.

Yesterday evening, the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) held a campaign rally with residents of Gyumri in the city's Theatrical Square, which was followed by an argument among the rally attendees.

During a May 1 concert at Yerevan's Liberty Square Heritage Party Leader Raffi Hovannisian reiterated that ‘faith and unity can make it possible to move mountains.'

Citizens placing their ballots in mobile ballot boxes can do so until 18:00.