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    Armenian opposition plans rallies in regions

    Interfax News Agency, Russia
    Russia & CIS General Newswire
    February 29, 2008 Friday 12:00 PM MSK

    YEREVAN Feb 29 -- Supporters of losing candidate for the Armenian
    presidency, former Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosian are going
    to stage protest actions across various regions.

    "Our goal is to paralyze the Serzh Sargsyan authorities," Nikol
    Pashinian, the head of Ter-Petrosian's electoral headquarters and
    editor-in-chief of the Aikakan Zhamanak (The Armenian Times) newspaper,
    said at a rally on Liberty square in Yerevan.

    A protest with the demand to invalidate the results of the presidential
    election has already taken place in the town of Noyemberian, he said.

    "Such actions should 'proliferate' to all other regions in the
    country," he said.

    Sargsyan won the February 19 presidential election in Armenia however
    Ter-Petrosian supporters are unhappy with the election results and
    demand to invalidate them.
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