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<title><![CDATA[TER-PETROSIAN ‘READY’ TO TALK TO GOVERNMENT]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/rfe/20080502/200805021</link>
<description><![CDATA[Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian on Friday expressed readiness to engage in dialogue with Armenia’s leadership and indicated that he will avoid staging the kind of street protests that could lead ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ARMENIA ‘POTENTIALLY VULNERABLE’ TO TERROR SCHEMES]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/rfe/20080502/200805022</link>
<description><![CDATA[Armenia runs the risk of being used by international terror networks despite stepping up counterterrorism measures and security cooperation with the United States, according to the U.S. State Department. ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[FIRED GENERAL DENIES SUPPORTING TER-PETROSIAN]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/rfe/20080508/200805081</link>
<description><![CDATA[A prominent army general who was dismissed as deputy defense minister last month insisted on Thursday that he did not support opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian before or after Armenia’s recent presidential ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[OPPOSITION SEES NO LETUP OF GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/rfe/20080505/200805052</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Armenian authorities are continuing their post-election crackdown on the opposition contrary to their pledges to comply with a recent resolution adopted by the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BAGHDASARIAN GETS PROMISED GOVERNMENT JOB]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/rfe/20080505/200805051</link>
<description><![CDATA[President Serzh Sarkisian on Monday appointed Artur Baghdasarian, the leader of the Orinats Yerkir Party, as secretary of his National Security Council in accordance with a power-sharing agreement reached ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ARMENIAN, AZERI FMS SAY SATISFIED WITH FIRST MEETING]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/rfe/20080507/200805072</link>
<description><![CDATA[The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan held what they described as productive talks in Strasbourg late Tuesday aimed at kick-starting the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process.  Azerbaijani Foreign ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SARKISIAN AIDE FAVORS DIALOGUE WITH OPPOSITION]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/rfe/20080506/200805062</link>
<description><![CDATA[Armenia’s government and opposition are both responsible for the deadly post-election violence in Yerevan and should resolve their bitter standoff through dialogue, an aide to President Serzh Sarkisian ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[EU INSISTS ON END TO ARMENIAN CRACKDOWN]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/rfe/20080507/200805071</link>
<description><![CDATA[A senior diplomat insisted on the European Union’s calls for the Armenian government to end its crackdown on the opposition and restore civil liberties as he began yet another fact-finding trip to Yerevan ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MINISTER’S NEPHEW NAMED SENIOR PROSECUTOR]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/rfe/20080508/200805082</link>
<description><![CDATA[President Serzh Sarkisian has appointed a 33-year-old nephew of Justice Minister Gevorg Danielian as Armenia’s deputy prosecutor-general, it emerged on Thursday.  Armen Danielian, a parliament deputy ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GAREGIN URGES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION BEFORE POPE]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/rfe/20080507/200805074</link>
<description><![CDATA[Armenia's religious leader on Wednesday used the pulpit of the Vatican to condemn the 1915 killing of 1.5 million ethnic Armenians by Ottoman Turks, saying the whole world should recognize it as a genocide. ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NEW PARLIAMENT BODY FORMED TO TACKLE ELECTION FLAWS]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/rfe/20080506/200805061</link>
<description><![CDATA[Speaker Tigran Torosian formed on Tuesday an hoc parliament commission charged with looking into international criticism of Armenian elections and suggesting ways of improving their conduct in the future. ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[POLICE RELEASE ARMENIAN DUAL CITIZENSHIP DATA]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/rfe/20080507/200805073</link>
<description><![CDATA[Nearly one thousand foreign nationals have applied for dual Armenian citizenship since it was introduced by the authorities in Yerevan late last year, a senior police official said on Wednesday.  Armenia’s ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ARMENIAN GROWTH ‘UNAFFECTED BY POST-ELECTION VIOLENCE’]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/rfe/20080505/200805053</link>
<description><![CDATA[Armenia can hit economic growth targets in 2008, a senior government official said on Sunday, playing down concerns that post-election street fighting had put off foreign investors.  Ten people were killed ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ARMENIAN CHURCH HEAD STARTS VATICAN VISIT]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/rfe/20080506/200805063</link>
<description><![CDATA[Catholicos Garegin II left for the Vatican Tuesday on a four-day visit which his office said will “further strengthen brotherly relations and cooperation” between the Armenian Apostolic and Roman Catholic ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SWISS FIRM APOLOGIES FOR GIFT GAFFE AFTER AZERI PROTEST]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/rfe/20080506/200805064</link>
<description><![CDATA[Swiss-based food company Nestlé has apologized to Azerbaijan after CDs it handed out free with packets of breakfast products angered the former Soviet state by accusing it of provoking war with Armenia. ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ARMENIA MARKS SOVIET VICTORY IN WWII]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/rfe/20080509/200805091</link>
<description><![CDATA[Armenia on Friday officially marked the 63rd anniversary of the end of the World War II, honoring and remembering hundreds of thousands of its citizens who contributed to the Soviet-led defeat of Nazi ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GOVERNMENT PLANS ‘DRASTIC’ PAY RISE FOR CIVIL SERVANTS]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/rfe/20080508/200805083</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Armenian government will sharply increase next year the salaries of civil servants in order to boost the “productivity” of various ministries and other government agencies, Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[DEMIRCHIAN COOL TOWARDS OPPOSITION PARTY MERGER]]></title>
<link>http://www.armtown.com/news/en/rfe/20080509/200805092</link>
<description><![CDATA[Opposition leader Stepan Demirchian said on Friday that he supports the consolidation of opposition forces aligned to former President Levon Ter-Petrosian but believes their transformation into a single ...]]></description>
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