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Article: Major candidates in Armenia's presidential elections
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AP Online
03-11-1998
Major candidates in Monday's presidential election in Armenia. If no candidate wins an outright majority, the top two vote-getters will take part in a run-off March 30.
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ROBERT KOCHARIAN, 43: Currently Armenia's prime minister and acting president. A native of the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, he was trained as an electrical technician. Before the 1991 Soviet collapse he worked in various communist organizations in the region, located in Azerbaijan. He became active in the Karabakh independence movement, and was elected president of the self-proclaimed republic in 1994. In 1995, he was named prime minister of Armenia, despite ...