Lena Nazaryan: "What I did wasn't heroic. Next time someone else will do the same."

17:24, February 21, 2013

Lena Nazaryan, the young woman who read a statement during a press conference of the OSCE observers a day after the February 18 presidential election challenging their evaluation, said she did nothing heroic.

"If other international organizations again attempt to give a similar evaluation, then somebody else will get up and take them to task," Nazaryan said today at a Media Center discussion regarding the election and post-election developments.

Nazaryan said the act was to show that domestic observers had the right to present their evaluation as well.

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