In the seventh part of its series of briefings on the 2012 Parliamentary elections in Armenia, LINKS Analysis looks at the results of two opinion polls released a few days before the elections, and their credibility.

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Yerevan hopes to exploit tensions in relations between Iran and Azerbaijan, but in doing so must tread cautiously not to trigger US and EU suspicions.

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Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan took time off from the election hustings to visit an exhibition of Georgian Armenian Artists entitled "The Homeland's call"

The people of Ukraine are trying to make sense of the bombings in one of their cities yesterday which left dozens of people wounded. It came at a time of increasing polorisation in the country's political system.

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In the sixth part of its series of briefings on the 2012 Parliamentary elections in Armenia, LINKS Analysis looks at the issue of the voters list, and at claims that the list is inflated by thousands of voters. It also looks at what the OSCE/ODIHR mission is saying on this subject, which is so vital to a proper election process.

With the nomination of Richard Morningstar as US Ambassador to Azerbaijan the Obama administration is hoping to close an unhappy chapter in US diplomatic and democractic practises, one which has caused bafflement in the international community.

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