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    RUSSIA'S FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE CHIEF PAYS VISIT TO ARMENIA, MEETS WITH PRESIDENT

    Axis Information & Analysis
    http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?arti cle=1818
    Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review
    May 6 2009

    President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan received Mikhail Fradkov, Chief
    of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of the Russian Federation,
    Armenian Public Radio reports, referring to Armenian President's
    Press Office.

    Both sides discussed a broad framework of issues related
    to Armenian-Russian cooperation and exchanges views on
    regional developments and security questions, according to the
    radio. Simulataneously came the news from the Interfax news agency
    that Armenia has refused to participate in the NATO military exercises
    which started in Georgia today.

    Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs declares retaliation sanctions on
    expulsion of Russian diplomats from Brussels AIA already wrote that the
    experts practically unanimously named the head of the NATO Information
    Office in Moscow, Dr. Isabelle Francois, the most likely candidate who
    would be deprived of accreditation in Moscow. One more employee of the
    NATO Information Office was also believed to be expelled from Russia.

    Today, a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry gave a short statement
    to the news agency Interfax, noting that Moscow regrets that the head
    of the NATO Information Office in Moscow, Isabelle Francois, leaves
    Russia. The source pointed out that she had done much for progress
    of relations between the Russian Federation and the North Atlantic
    Alliance. Attaché of Canadian embassy also working for the NATO
    Information Office, Mark Opgenort, has been also announced persona
    non grata by Russian Foreign Ministry.

    It became known, that the ambassador of Canada in Russian Federation
    Ralph Lisitshin was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    of Russia where he was handed over the note about deprivation of
    accreditation of Isabelle Francois and one more employee of NATO
    office, according to radio Ekho Moskvy. This measure became the answer
    to deprivation of the NATO accreditation of two Russian diplomats,
    Viktor Kotchukov and Vasily Chizhov, employees of the Permanent
    representation office of the Russian Federation.
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