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Nikol Pashinyan is Armenia's new prime minister
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Nikol Pashinyan is Armenia's new prime minister

8 May 2018
Pashinyan was supported by 59 votes against 42 in a vote in the country's parliament. The vote was received with loud cheers and chants by tens of thousands of people who crowded on Yerevan's Republic Square awaiting the result
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Putin has a new car. Everything else remains the same.
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Putin has a new car. Everything else remains the same.

8 May 2018
The Russian president travelled to the inauguration ceremony of his fourth term in a newly developed Russian car. But his prime minister, most of his ministers and his policies remain largely the same.
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Monday Commentary: Armenia's long journey
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Monday Commentary: Armenia's long journey

7 May 2018
Recent popular protests in Armenia may not necessarily amount to a revolution, and this may be for the best. In any case Nikol Pashinyan is more a Vaclav Havel than a Leon Trotsky, and he has already indicated what are his priorities for change in the country, argues Dennis Sammut
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Decisive day for Armenia (Update 3)
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Decisive day for Armenia (Update 3)

1 May 2018
A defiant Nikol Pashinyan has called for a general strike in Armenia starting on 2 May, when addressing thousands of supporters after parliament failed to elect him as prime minister, as political crisis in Armenia deepens