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Eight others received prison terms ranging from 15 to 20 years.<br \/>Konstantin Zatulin, a member of Russia&#8217;s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, said the proceedings had been a settling of scores, not a trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azerbaijan issued a strong protest to Russia on Friday after a Russian lawmaker condemned the sentencing of 13 ethnic Armenians who had held senior positions in the former breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.Five defendants, including former Karabakh leader Arayik Harutyunyan, were sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday by an Azerbaijani military court. 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