June 12 (Reuters) - A pro-Russian opposition alliance filed a request to Armenia's election commission on Friday to throw out the results of last Sunday's parliamentary election, won by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's governing party.The petition was submitted by Strong Armenia, party member Aram Vardevanyan told reporters in the capital Yerevan, after opposition groups alleged there had been voting irregularities.

Pavel Danilin called the scale of violations ahead of the elections "unprecedented"

Armenia’s governing Civil Contract party won an election seen as a test of its handling of a peace deal with Azerbaijan and its growing turn to the West,