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where after the evening again there will be federally even without the leaders of the opposition mr sarkozy a. former president the prime minister in walking out of talks with an equal passion and refer to the events of march the first two thousand and eight we first brought him fuck is down to power as president those were very horrific and have left quite a dramatic impact on society in armenia because there was a brutal crackdown by the authorities on mass protests following again fraudulent elections ten years ago and now we are seeing as the rallies and even the city a very brutal crackdown by the police taking any number of that isn't into custody and trying to block rallies that until now all they have been there then restrained by the police towards those protests until now but today it seems like there has been a decision taken to crack down on them ok independent research and not exit on many thanks for that background thank you. trying now to look at the other stories making news around the world at the moment in afghanistan thirty one people have been killed in a blast in the ca

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political shift that armenia needed and was looking forward to so we are all very thrilled that mr sarkozy on head the modesty if i may call it in gentle words to these resolutions ryan so that now the word of the the word of people can be heard and we also saw members of the military and the clergy join those street protests today how significant was that. i would say very significant because in a situation like this in a small country like armenia where the population is under three million we need all institutions we need all groups and communities to come together from civil society individual bases to a more organized institutional perspective and we know that the country has been suffering specifically under the rule of the. mandates of the president with absolute lack of institutional freedom so be it the judicial be the the police fear be it the. the health or culture or even the religious institutions they were on the under the grasp of his dictates so the fact that they really took the initiative on individual individual basis to come to the street shows that ultimately instituti