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Armenia: News Roundups

Saturday, May 17th, 2008 @ 11:53 UTC

by Onnik Krikorian

Countries:: Armenia
Topics:: Elections, Protest, Politics
Languages:: English

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The Armenian Observer rounds up and comments on the news headlines of the week. Not unpredictably, the main topic discussed in the local media was the post-election situation in Armenia although interestingly, the focus is more on the personal conflict between the first two presidents rather than the new elected head of state and his main rival.

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