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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Lev Sergeev

Russian emigres in Armenia settle in for the long haul

((This Oct. 26 story has been refiled to correct name to Mary Khachikyan from Mari Khachikyan in paragraph 8))

YEREVAN (Reuters) - In the Armenian capital Yerevan, few of the tens of thousands of military-age Russian men who have fled to the former Soviet republic see themselves returning home any time soon.

"Many of my friends left, only a couple of people remain in Russia," said Nikolai Salnikov, an IT worker who went to Armenia on Sept. 23, two days after President Vladimir Putin declared a "partial mobilisation" to bolster his forces in Ukraine.

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