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RUSSIAN FEDERATION [top]
Investors Relax Outside Russia
kommersant.com - 22 May 2008 08:37:20 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Mysterious Shifts in Chechnya
TheMoscowTimes.com - 21 May 2008 22:26:47 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Tatneft Seeks $1.1Bln From Ukraine
TheMoscowTimes.com - 21 May 2008 22:26:26 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Gazprom Sells Its Stake in Izvestia
TheMoscowTimes.com - 21 May 2008 22:26:22 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Mail.ru Planning $2Bln London Float
TheMoscowTimes.com - 21 May 2008 22:25:43 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 97%
EU and Russia agree to new series of wide-ranging talks
International Herald Tribune - 21 May 2008 20:43:30 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Russian oil and gas companies interested in Mediterranean area
RIA Novosti - 21 May 2008 15:38:48 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Peculiarities of Russian Wheat Futures
Kommersant - 21 May 2008 15:21:17 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Russian Real Estate - Stirred, not shaken
Russia Profile.org - 21 May 2008 12:00:28 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Time to Revisit Russia's Reform Agenda?
Russia Profile.org - 21 May 2008 12:00:21 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Foreign investment in Russia down 30% to $17 bln in Q1
RIA Novosti - 21 May 2008 11:18:51 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Severstal Buying American Esmark
Kommersant - 21 May 2008 09:56:54 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Russia's Web search firm Yandex valued at $5bn for IPO - paper
RIA Novosti - 21 May 2008 07:35:15 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Putin Agreed to Invest Pensions in Infrastructure
kommersant.com - 21 May 2008 06:12:03 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Gazprom backs out of Kovytka deal
www.upstreamonline.com - 20 May 2008 19:45:26 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
BP Moscow office raid raises fears over oil venture
FT.com - 20 May 2008 19:30:37 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
100 Million Plastic Bank Cards in Russia
kommersant.com - 20 May 2008 19:28:27 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Metalloinvest eyes dual listing
FT.com - 20 May 2008 18:20:25 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 88%
Khodorkovsky Says Medvedev Could Reform Judicial System
TheMoscowTimes.com - 20 May 2008 08:19:53 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 99%
Govt Had Too Many Revenues
kommersant.com - 19 May 2008 07:58:31 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 1%
Moscow Passes Paris – In Prices
Kommersant - 19 May 2008 07:53:50 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Gazprom urged to rethink strategy
FT.com - 18 May 2008 21:05:49 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Russia shows political clout with Bric summit
Times Online - 15 May 2008 22:38:15 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%


CAUCASUS [top]

ARMENIA [top]
Gazprom to raise gas tariffs for Armenia in stages
www.steelguru.com - 21 May 2008 04:52:51 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Armenian prime minister expects better economic progress
ARKA News Agency - 20 May 2008 12:49:33 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Armenia focuses on cooperation development with USA: prime minister
ARKA News Agency - 19 May 2008 10:23:34 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
The Banker: HSBC Bank Armenia best bank of Armenia 2007
ARKA News Agency - 16 May 2008 16:19:01 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Analysis: Armenian Opposition Issues New Ultimatum
rferl.org - 15 May 2008 16:07:13 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Armenian Banking System's Net Outflow Totals 15.5 Bln Drams
ARKA News Agency - 15 May 2008 16:05:29 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

AZERBAIJAN [top]
Azerbaijan: Officials Plan for "Problem-Free" Presidential Election
EurasiaNet.org - 22 May 2008 01:53:18 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Azerbaijan's oil output up 14.1% in January-April
RIA Novosti - 21 May 2008 10:04:35 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
SOCAR acquired 65% of the stake in Caspian Shipbuilding Factory
portnews.ru - 21 May 2008 07:10:11 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan Talk about Pipeline
Kommersant - 20 May 2008 13:39:05 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
SOCAR Launches Oil Terminal in Georgia
Civil Georgia - 16 May 2008 17:05:15 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Russia's Baltika buys Azerbaijan's largest brewery
RIA Novosti - 15 May 2008 17:18:37 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Analysis: Does Azerbaijan Face A New Irredentist Threat?
rferl.org - 15 May 2008 16:07:10 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

GEORGIA [top]
Georgia's ruling party set to win parliamentary poll
Guardian - 22 May 2008 10:12:48 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 93%
Exit Poll: Saakashvili's Party Wins Big
TheMoscowTimes.com - 21 May 2008 22:27:02 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Diplomacy is tried to reduce tensions over Abkhazia
International Herald Tribune - 21 May 2008 20:43:26 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 84%
Georgia: Will Parliamentary Vote Bring An End To Polarized Politics?
rferl.org - 21 May 2008 13:21:57 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 98%
The Ads Choose Saakashvili
kommersant.com - 21 May 2008 04:36:01 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Georgia promises not to attack Abkhazia
RIA Novosti - 20 May 2008 17:20:51 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 80%
Russia's N.Ossetia wants unification with Georgia's S.Ossetia
RIA Novosti - 20 May 2008 15:12:08 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 45%
The Georgian Revanche
Russia Profile.org - 20 May 2008 13:52:44 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 99%
Russia claims to arrest a Georgian spy
International Herald Tribune - 18 May 2008 17:31:12 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 95%
Georgia to block Russia from WTO until support for Abkhazia ends
RIA Novosti - 16 May 2008 18:03:39 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 84%


CENTRAL ASIA [top]

KAZAKHSTAN [top]
Kazakh U-turn over export tax
www.upstreamonline.com - 22 May 2008 10:30:48 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
ENRC to build railway line between Kazakhstan and China
www.steelguru.com - 22 May 2008 05:28:35 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Merging Russia's Economy // Nursultan Nazarbayev will suggest merging economies to Dmitry Medvedev
Kommersant - 22 May 2008 04:53:16 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 98%
Kazakhstan lowers oil output forecast for 2008 by 3.4%
RIA Novosti - 21 May 2008 13:10:23 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Radio Liberty says Kazakhstan blocking its website
Reuters - 21 May 2008 05:47:57 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Jordanians May Invest in Kazakh Resort
TheMoscowTimes.com - 20 May 2008 08:19:09 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Kazakhstan bars petroleum product exports
RIA Novosti - 19 May 2008 14:07:12 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Kazakhstan: President's Former Son-In-Law Offers To Testify In U.S. In 'Kazakhgate' Probe
rferl.org - 18 May 2008 11:50:42 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

KYRGYZSTAN [top]
Kyrgyz Prime Minister tours Poland, Latvia, Belarus
24.kg - 20 May 2008 05:58:19 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
S Korea, Kyrgyzstan seek agreement on double taxation
Xinhua - 19 May 2008 05:42:24 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Kyrgyz commercial banks' credit portfolio grew by 13-15 percent in January-April 2008
24.kg - 16 May 2008 12:33:17 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Living off the land in a post-Soviet world
International Herald Tribune - 15 May 2008 14:25:58 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 94%

MONGOLIA [top]
Polo Resources to buy 80% interest in Baradine Bay
www.steelguru.com - 19 May 2008 05:05:39 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 94%
Russian wants $1 bln trade with Mongolia by 2010
RIA Novosti - 15 May 2008 17:29:19 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

TAJIKISTAN [top]
Tajikistan: Who's in Charge?
EurasiaNet.org - 17 May 2008 03:19:05 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Presidents of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan signed joint statement
kabar.kg - 16 May 2008 13:17:22 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Presidents of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan signed agreement on setting up interstate coordinating council
kabar.kg - 16 May 2008 10:43:42 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Tajikistan: 'Disappearance' Of President's Brother-In-Law Sparks Rumors
rferl.org - 16 May 2008 09:40:55 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

TURKMENISTAN [top]
Caspian: Azerbaijani-Turkmen Summit Marks Potentially Lucrative Thaw In Relations
EurasiaNet.org - 22 May 2008 01:53:10 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Turkmens end boycott of provincial council
www.todayszaman.com - 20 May 2008 23:10:21 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Turkmen Tower Gets Place in Sun
TheMoscowTimes.com - 20 May 2008 08:19:29 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%

UZBEKISTAN [top]
Uzbekistan: Tashkent Is Up To Its Old Geopolitical Tricks
EurasiaNet.org - 20 May 2008 22:31:12 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Uzbekistan: Authoritarian President Publishes Tome On ‘Morality'
rferl.org - 20 May 2008 14:48:18 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Uzbekistan to export abroad 23% of extracted gas in 2008
uzreport.com - 20 May 2008 10:33:05 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
EU Nations Arrest 10 In Uzbek Terror Probe
TheMoscowTimes.com - 19 May 2008 02:44:16 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
Head of Russian Lukoil notes Uzbekistan's high potential
uzreport.com - 17 May 2008 12:31:35 GMT -  [cached] : Relevance 100%
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