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9 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
“Shushi is entirely outside of our control,” Vahram Poghosyan wrote on his Facebook page:

themoscowtimes.com/2020/11/09/nag…
Some Armenians seem to think his page was hacked. He insists that it was not.

168.am/2020/11/09/140…
Adding this here:

Minutes ago, @NikolPashinyan wrote that the fighting over the city continues. Given the video in the tweet above, it is baffling statement:

facebook.com/13783680791502…
Armenian MoD an hour ago.

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But only briefly. Because I was then hugely dismayed to see that the result of that review was an editor's note, appended to the article with dueling memos debating arguments that were spurious to begin with "to encourage further inquiry."
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