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Exclusive-Imported voters, fake websites: Russia's covert efforts to stop Armenia's pivot West

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By Tom Balmforth, Gram Slattery, Humeyra Pamuk and Lucy PapachristouLONDON/WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) - Russia has intensified covert efforts to undermine the leader of Armenia’s bid for re-election next month, fearing his victory could lock in the former Soviet republic’s realignment with the West, according to Western intelligence and government officials.