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| Victory Day parade held on Moscows Red Square |
| 09.05.11 15:55 |
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| A military parade dedicated to the 66th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in the 1941-45 Great Patriotic War was launched on Moscows Red Square at 10:00 a.m. Moscow time (06:00 GMT) on Monday. |
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| Kremlin lacking WTO will |
| 04.05.11 19:23 |
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| After almost 18 years of unsuccessful but persistent struggle to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), experts say that efforts by Russian authorities have not been enough and have often lacked political will. |
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| Compressed gas on the Caspian table |
| 27.03.11 23:54 |
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| Recent progress towards agreement on the possibilities for constructing a Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline (TCGP), in the context of the European Unions Southern Corridor Program, has drawn attention away from moves towards the elaboration of smaller-scale projects for the trans-Caspian transit of compressed natural gas from (CNG) from Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan. |
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| Chinese move on to Tajik fields |
| 01.02.11 16:37 |
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| New guestworkers are coming to the cotton and rice fields of southern Tajikistan, and they are already sowing seeds of discontent. Locals are outraged at the prospect of Chinese farmers arriving to work Tajik land, following Dushanbes decision last week to lease out 2,000 hectares of land to the Uyghur Autonomous Region in western China. |
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| Fears over Latvia brain drain as economy struggles |
| 20.08.10 11:25 |
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| Latvia is losing more than 1% of its population annually, as the countrys young people head abroad to find work. With 2.2 million inhabitants, Latvia is already one of Europes least populous countries. But every year around 30,000 people emigrate. |
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| Russia plans far eastern energy drive |
| 14.07.10 16:14 |
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| Russian officials have reiterated pledges to pursue far eastern energy policies backed by sizable investments. Moscow will invest up to US$100 billion to develop new natural gas deposits in the next five years, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin announced last month. Many of these new deposits are located in eastern Siberia and Russias far east. |
| Sergei Blagov |
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