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88. Laure Delcour and Hrant Kostanyan, “Towards a Fragmented Neighbourhood: Policies of the EU and Russia and Their Consequences for the Area That Lies In Between,” CEPS Essays No. 17, 17 October 2014, http://ssrn.com/abstract=2513712; Sergey Minasyan, “Russian-Armenian Relations: Affection or Pragmatism?” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 269, July 2013, http://www.ponarseurasia.org/memo/russian-armenian-relations-affection-or-pragmatism.
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