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<title><![CDATA[HEAVEN’S DEADLY PEBBLES: NEW STATIONS WILL CONTROL HAIL IN SHIRAK PROVINCE]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/anw/20080509/3032</link>
<description><![CDATA[The farmers of Shirak province are eager to see if new anti-hail stations will prove effective in saving crops from the sort of damage they often experience during May storms.  The first new anti-hail ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BOOK PUBLISHING UNDER CORRUPTION: KARABAKH OFFICIALS YEARN FOR WRITER’S FAME]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/anw/20080509/3030</link>
<description><![CDATA[Book publishing has recently become one of the most controversial issues speculated upon in Karabakh, where corruption has penetrated even into the modest enterprise.  The thing is that some Karabakhi ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[FAITH AND HOPE: CENTER IN KAPAN HELPS DISABLED CHILDREN COME OUT OF HOMES]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/anw/20080509/3028</link>
<description><![CDATA[Disabled children of charitable center in Kapan now have an opportunity to attend the neighbouring private fitness club free of charge due to the support of Dino Gold Mining Company.  The Hearth of Faith ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[COMMERCE AND CONVICTION: ARMENIAN PILGRIMAGES BRING JOY, BELIEF, BUSINESS]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/anw/20080509/3027</link>
<description><![CDATA[Each year an Armenian village in Kotayk province turns into a mix of belief, joy and fair. People stand in line to go down into the small room dug in the ground where there is a sanctuary with an image ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MOVEMENT: NKR ISSUE SEES RENEWED ATTENTION AS MFA GETS ACQUAINTED]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/anw/20080509/3034</link>
<description><![CDATA[An obvious boost in attention to the problem of Nagorno-Karabakh has been observed in Armenia in recent months. Never before has Stepanakert been visited by Armenia’s parliament speaker and foreign minister ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NO ALTERNATIVE?: JEHOVAH’S WITNESS REFUSES OPTIONAL MILITARY SERVICE]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/anw/20080509/3029</link>
<description><![CDATA[By court decision Vanadzor resident Davit Petrosyan will spend the next two and half years in prison for avoiding alternative military service.  The Vanadzor (Lori province) court of general authority ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SPORT: ARMENIA’S YOUTH FOOTBALLERS TRIUMPH OVER ITALIAN COEVALS]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/anw/20080509/3025</link>
<description><![CDATA[Football   Armenia’s U-19 national team led by coach Armen Gyulbudaghyants started well in an international friendly tournament in Italy. As reported by Armenia’s Football Federation, in the opening match ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NO PLACE FOR PACE: THREE WEEKS ON, NO MOVEMENT ON FOLLOWING COE RESOLUTION]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/anw/20080509/3035</link>
<description><![CDATA[Twenty days have past since the adoption of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Resolution 1609 in Strasbourg, calling for release of prisoners and other stipulations to bring more ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SUPREME INTEREST OR SUPREME DECEPTION?: HISTORIC BUILDING FOCUS OF CONTROVERSY BETWEEN ITALIAN CONSUL AND YEREVAN MUNICIPALITY]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/anw/20080509/3033</link>
<description><![CDATA[The “Gegham Mnatsakanyan Residential House”, a historic and cultural monument, built in 1898 at Koghbatsi 22 may be dismantled to cede space to the historic and cultural district (which is designed on ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[TALKING POINTS: IF COALITION BELIEVE THEIR OWN NUMBERS, WHY CONCERN THEMSELVES WITH TER-PETROSYAN?]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/anw/20080509/3026</link>
<description><![CDATA[It’s not yesterday anymore . . .  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Talking ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[FOOD FOR THOUGHT: OPPOSITIONIST ANALYST HAS CAREER AS HUNGER STRIKER]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/anw/20080509/3031</link>
<description><![CDATA[When in the middle of April law enforcement entered Lusine Hayrapetyan’s home for the purpose of conducting a search they advised her to voluntarily surrender weapons, leaflets or pamphlets that were ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[LAYING THE GROUNDWORK: ARMENIAN, AZERI FMS IN MEETING TO KEEP TALKS ALIVE]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/anw/20080509/3023</link>
<description><![CDATA[International negotiators have been meeting with the top diplomats of Armenia and Azerbaijan early this week in a bid to revitalize the agonizing peace process between the two neighboring countries.  ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEEKING REPATRIATION: FOUR ARMENIANS STILL IN AZERI CAPTIVITY AFTER GOING ASTRAY NEAR BORDER]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/anw/20080509/3020</link>
<description><![CDATA[A group of Armenian citizens who inadvertently crossed the Armenian border into an Azeri exclave early last week still remain prisoners in Nakhichevan.   The repatriation of the four men, identified by ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[FORMER OPPOSITIONIST GETS PROMISED SECURITY COUNCIL POSITION]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/anw/20080509/3021</link>
<description><![CDATA[President Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree Sunday appointing his former vocal critic and ex-parliament speaker as Secretary of Armenia’s National Security Council, the presidential press service reported. ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[FARE SCARE: HIKE IN GAS PRICE FUELS SPECULATION ABOUT INCREASED TRANSPORTATION CHARGES]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/anw/20080509/3022</link>
<description><![CDATA[Since yesterday taxi fares in Armenia increased by 50 percent – the taxi fare of 100 drams (or about 30 cents) per kilometer that existed for years and the minimum charge of 500-600 drams increased to ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AT HOME & ABROAD: ARMENIANS TO HAVE TWO IDS, INCLUDING BIOMETRY FOR TRAVELS ABROAD]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/anw/20080509/3024</link>
<description><![CDATA[Armenia is going to have a new passport system introduced in 2010 whereby citizens will bear two documents – a personal card to use domestically and a passport containing biometrical data to go abroad. ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BACK ON THE STUMP: OPPOSITIONISTS PACK GOVERNMENT HALL TO HEAR LATEST RALLY BY TER-PETROSYAN]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/anw/20080509/3019</link>
<description><![CDATA[The opposition movement led by former president Levon Ter-Petrosyan held a congress in a closely packed conference hall in the Government Building Friday. More than a thousand people had gathered outside ...]]></description>
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