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RUSSIAN FEDERATION [top]
Gazprom, Rosneft to Divide Russia's Shelf
kommersant.com - 17 Apr 2008 09:14:38 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Vladimir Putin 'to wed Olympic gymnast half his age'
telegraph.co.uk - 17 Apr 2008 01:04:07 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Russia seeking tighter economic relations with Libya
International Herald Tribune - 16 Apr 2008 18:22:32 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Dimitri Medvedev: Who is he?
International Herald Tribune - 16 Apr 2008 18:08:42 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 97%
Standoff between pro-Russian Chechen forces: media
Reuters - 16 Apr 2008 13:04:41 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Latin America and Russia lift Coca-Cola earnings
International Herald Tribune - 16 Apr 2008 12:55:17 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Russia to build nuclear plant in Baltic exclave
RIA Novosti - 16 Apr 2008 12:18:18 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Russian stocks looking bearish, experts say
rbcnews.com - 16 Apr 2008 11:44:05 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Oil Growth Is Over
Kommersant - 16 Apr 2008 11:37:21 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 99%
On the Job // Vladimir Putin approved as leader
Kommersant - 16 Apr 2008 11:36:57 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Russia May Join NATO before Ukraine
Kommersant - 16 Apr 2008 11:36:42 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Russia could sign $2-4 bln arms contracts with Libya
RIA Novosti - 16 Apr 2008 10:32:18 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
U.S. approves $810 mln steel mill deal for Russia's Severstal
RIA Novosti - 16 Apr 2008 08:44:14 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
De Beers to acquire stake in major Russian diamond deposit
Budapest Business Journal - 16 Apr 2008 08:29:42 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Russia's Globaltrans seeks up to $509 mln in IPO
Budapest Business Journal - 16 Apr 2008 08:29:35 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Mr Deripaska positive on Norilsk Nickel and RUSAL merger
www.steelguru.com - 16 Apr 2008 06:04:33 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Foreign energy companies in Russia stymied
International Herald Tribune - 15 Apr 2008 21:22:50 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Rosstat Confirms Record GDP Growth
Kommersant - 15 Apr 2008 15:49:42 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 96%
Lavrov rejects rumors of Putin's threats against Ukraine -2
RIA Novosti - 15 Apr 2008 15:27:42 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Russia to Go Through Pharmaceutical Collapse by Year-End
kommersant.com - 15 Apr 2008 14:24:31 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Russian billionaire Mordashov might double TUI stake
Budapest Business Journal - 15 Apr 2008 12:56:33 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Gazprom Gets Deposit sans Competition
Kommersant - 15 Apr 2008 09:14:01 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Nuclear power status for Iran could solve crisis - Russian tycoon
RIA Novosti - 14 Apr 2008 15:24:47 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
The Spoils of Success
Russia Profile.org - 11 Apr 2008 11:32:49 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Lukoil unveils R&D cash splash
www.upstreamonline.com - 11 Apr 2008 11:31:52 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%


CAUCASUS [top]

ARMENIA [top]
Opinion: suspension of subsidies for gas prices not to reduce competitiveness of Armenian goods
ARKA News Agency - 16 Apr 2008 10:57:35 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
PACE Launching Anti-presidential Campaign // The Council of Europe thrashed out the elections in Russia and Armenia
Kommersant - 15 Apr 2008 03:57:05 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Rak Minerals acquires 100% stake of TSCC Armenia
www.steelguru.com - 12 Apr 2008 06:42:33 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Armrosgasprom's investments in Yerevan's gas sector $24mln since 2002
ARKA News Agency - 11 Apr 2008 16:26:37 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
New President Sarkisian Promises an "Armenia of Dreams"
EurasiaNet.org - 11 Apr 2008 01:05:21 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Armenia FM says quits his post in new govt
ITAR-TASS - 11 Apr 2008 00:40:32 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

AZERBAIJAN [top]
Azerbaijan: It's Back to the Drawing Board for Karabakh Talks
EurasiaNet.org - 16 Apr 2008 22:52:26 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Baku announces 53 pct rise in army spending
www.todayszaman.com - 15 Apr 2008 23:17:21 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Azerbaijan: Baku hesitates on Nabucco pipeline project
Budapest Business Journal - 14 Apr 2008 06:49:09 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Turkish contractors dominate Azeri market
www.todayszaman.com - 11 Apr 2008 23:33:35 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

GEORGIA [top]
Confessionary Instructions // Vladimir Putin set the course on integrating Abkhazia and South Ossetia into Russia
Kommersant - 17 Apr 2008 07:24:37 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 97%
How a tiny breakaway province could become the new cold war frontline
Guardian - 17 Apr 2008 00:09:36 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 80%
Russia tightens ties with Georgian rebel areas
Reuters - 16 Apr 2008 21:32:01 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 89%
Georgian minister condemns Russia for support to Abkhazia, S Ossetia
ITAR-TASS - 16 Apr 2008 20:46:27 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Russia Moves to Legalize Ties with Abkhazia, S.Ossetia
Civil Georgia - 16 Apr 2008 11:54:10 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Georgia launches project to build new industrial zone
RIA Novosti - 15 Apr 2008 13:40:43 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 97%
Breakaway Abkhazia rejects Georgia's offer of broad autonomy
RIA Novosti - 13 Apr 2008 10:10:36 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 95%
Georgia: Governing Party to Rely on Star Power as It Aims to Dominate Next Parliament
EurasiaNet.org - 11 Apr 2008 20:11:57 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 98%
Georgia issues 500-million-euro government bond
RIA Novosti - 11 Apr 2008 11:46:44 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 91%


CENTRAL ASIA [top]

KAZAKHSTAN [top]
Kazakhstan imposes oil export duty
www.upstreamonline.com - 17 Apr 2008 08:19:19 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Kazakhstan: Grain Export Ban Stokes Inflation Fears Elsewhere in Central Asia
EurasiaNet.org - 16 Apr 2008 22:52:32 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Astana and Beijing eye Caspian riches
www.upstreamonline.com - 15 Apr 2008 10:00:20 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
‘Cannon fodder' men dying in mines of UK's richest man
Times Online - 12 Apr 2008 20:56:19 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 97%
Kazakhstan and GFH to develop Kazakh energy industry
www.steelguru.com - 12 Apr 2008 06:40:05 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
ENRC given ultimatum on £20bn Kazakh mining deal
telegraph.co.uk - 11 Apr 2008 15:10:29 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
President says China values strategic partnership with Kazakhstan
Xinhua - 11 Apr 2008 09:03:36 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

KYRGYZSTAN [top]
Manas airport to invest 250 million soms in rehabilitation of local airports of Kyrgyzstan
kabar.kg - 16 Apr 2008 12:01:30 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Kyrgyzstan: Government Presses Ahead with Controversial Plan to Privatize Electricity Grid
EurasiaNet.org - 15 Apr 2008 18:33:51 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Kyrgyzstan to attract $5bln in energy development by 2025
24.kg - 15 Apr 2008 09:04:14 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Kyrgyzstan: Opposition Calls For Dismissal Of Parliament, New Constitution
rferl.org - 13 Apr 2008 13:34:00 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Kyrgyzstan to rank among lowest on GDP in 2008, CIS Statcommittee says
24.kg - 11 Apr 2008 07:44:22 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
IMF forecasts 18% inflation rate for Kyrgyzstan
24.kg - 11 Apr 2008 07:44:04 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Kyrgyzstan: Is a Dual-Power Scenario Developing?
EurasiaNet.org - 11 Apr 2008 01:05:08 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

MONGOLIA [top]
Russia may build a nuclear power plant in Mongolia
www.steelguru.com - 14 Apr 2008 05:26:25 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
RZD gets controlling stake in Ulan-Bator Railway
www.steelguru.com - 12 Apr 2008 06:48:49 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 95%
Russia-Mongolia trade to reach $1bn
rbcnews.com - 11 Apr 2008 09:48:09 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
UB Investment in 2008 Hits Record High
ubpost.mongolnews.mn - 11 Apr 2008 02:26:38 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Mongolia's Strong Growth Set to Continue, Inflation a Concern
ubpost.mongolnews.mn - 11 Apr 2008 02:26:07 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

TAJIKISTAN [top]
Central Asia: Kazakh Wheat Ban Hits Some Neighbors Harder Than Others
rferl.org - 16 Apr 2008 14:26:02 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 98%
Tajikistan: Politicians And Their Friends Make Up Much Of '100 Richest' List
rferl.org - 11 Apr 2008 14:04:02 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
IMF demands Tajikistan repay US$47m as Uzbekistan cuts gas deliveries
uzreport.com - 11 Apr 2008 09:50:07 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

TURKMENISTAN [top]
Turkmenistan: Gas-Export Offer Seen As 'Breakthrough' By EU
rferl.org - 16 Apr 2008 13:36:40 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Turkmen president announces new pricing policy for fuels
ITAR-TASS - 15 Apr 2008 12:09:08 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Turkmenistan's gas output slides
www.upstreamonline.com - 15 Apr 2008 07:27:44 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
EU secures Turkmenistan gas deal
BBC - 14 Apr 2008 17:15:37 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Turkmenistan: Confusion Reigns About Ashgabat's Commitment To Nabucco
rferl.org - 13 Apr 2008 11:55:33 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

UZBEKISTAN [top]
GM looks further afield in CEE with deal in Uzbekistan
www.businessneweurope.eu - 16 Apr 2008 11:08:38 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Foreign investments in Uzbek economy to increase 40%
UzA - 15 Apr 2008 12:02:01 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Central Asia Unwilling to Be Left Out // of Russia's natural gas policy
Kommersant - 15 Apr 2008 09:13:48 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 93%
Uzbekistan and China team up for gas pipeline construction
www.steelguru.com - 15 Apr 2008 05:15:30 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Central Asia: US Diplomat Claims Democratization Success for American Policy
EurasiaNet.org - 11 Apr 2008 01:05:13 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 93%
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