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Visa-free travel between Turkey, Russia expected in summer
Visa-free travel between Turkey and Russia could begin this summer, a Russian official said Thursday.
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Macedonia ready to start EU accession talks
Macedonia could start its EU accession talks within the period of the Spanish EU presidency says Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos.
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In reversal, Ukraine agrees to extend Russia's naval base lease
MOSCOW -- Ukraine's new president signed a deal Wednesday that allows Russia's Black Sea Fleet to stay in the country another 25 years, moving to ease a long-standing and giving Moscow its second foreign policy victory in the former Soviet Union this
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Central Asia not just Kyrgyzstan, Uzbek president tells media
Uzbek President Islam Karimov on April 20 urged the Russian media not to judge all of Central Asia on the basis of the situation in Kyrgyzstan and asked reporters to be balanced in their coverage of the Kyrgyz unrest, RIA Novosti informed.
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Soft Power and No Plan for Iran
Anyone who remembers the Vietnam War might be having hot flashes of déjà vu today. We are again engaged in a grand campaign to "win the hearts and minds" of an implacable foe in a place where we do not understand the language, the religion, the culture, or the opportunity costs
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Ukraine, Russia hold top-level gas price talks
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich was to meet Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday for talks which Kiev hopes will lead to Russia cutting the price of natural gas supplies.
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Russia country profile
Russia emerged from a decade of post-Soviet economic and political turmoil to reassert itself as a world power.
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Caucasus insurgency casts pall over Russian Olympics
Winter Olympics, to be staged in the mountain range where the militants have their strongholds. Soon after the Black Sea resort town of Sochi won in its bid to host the games, insurgents vowed in a statement to "attack any of the so-called 'Olympic
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