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   The main road continues to  the  little town of Ani Railroad Station.

   A narrow  paved  road,  just  after  the Ani Railroad Station winds to a military checkpoint manned by Russian border guards, half of them Armenians under contract. With prior permission from the Foreign Ministry, or a pleasant smile and good story or (supposedly pending) a policy change

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on access to the closed zone, you may be allowed to drive to an overlook point W of the settlement of Kharkov, from which the churches and palaces of the medieval Armenian capital city of Ani are laid out on a promontory a few hundred meters and many centuries away across the Akhurian river gorge in Turkey. The sight is unforgettable, particularly in late afternoon.