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Joint probe into Russias Eurovision votes stolen in Azerbaijan
17/05/2013 11:07 CET Russia and Azerbaijan are joining forces to investigate a Eurovision scandal that saw votes for Russia’s entry vanish. Moscow’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has described as ';outrageous'; the revelations by Azerbaijan that although its country’s voters had put Dina Garipova’s ballad second, she got ';nul points'; instead of ...
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Kyrgyzstan shutting down key US route to Afghanistan
President Almazbek Atambayev has repeatedly pledged to shut down the Manas Transit Center in 2014, dismissing U.S. assumptions that the base would remain in exchange for higher rent. The United States currently pays $60 million annually for the base.Atambayev said the Kyrgyz Cabinet had drafted a bill on the base closure and submitted it to parliament. He said Kyrgyzstan would compensate for the ...
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Kyrgyzstan bent on evicting US air base in 2014
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -; Kyrgyzstan's president has reaffirmed that next year the Central Asian nation will evict the U.S. air base that supports military operations in nearby ...
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Roadman of Kyrgyzstan’s accession of Customs Union to be worked out before yearend
BISHKEK, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Quite a lot of steps are to be made to have Kyrgyzstan join the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev said on ...
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Kyrgyzstan may not renew US lease on base
USA The Kyrgyz government has penned a bill that would see the closure of the US-leased Manas air base in July next year. The country will lose $60 million for not extending the ...
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Putin takes on Nigeria Navy
By John Helmer MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin will raise with West African leaders the case of the Myre Seadiver and its 15-man Russian crew, who were arrested and imprisoned on trumped-up charges in Nigeria last October. [1] Putin arrived in Durban, South Africa, on March 26 for a two-day visit. The Myre Seadiver crew have been accused by the Nigerian Navy of arms smuggling, charges ...
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TAP surges ahead of Nabucco-West
By Vladimir Socor Among the roles of Gazprom's South Stream pipeline project was that of aborting the European Union-backed Nabucco, merely by threatening to preempt Nabucco's markets along the same route downstream. Conversely, Nabucco's European rival Trans-Adriatic Pipeline project (TAP) can abort Nabucco by preempting the gas supply source upstream. Both TAP and the ...
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Russian International Olympic University signs cooperation agreement with Kazakhstan
Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as ...
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Lithuanian experts say video on buying votes for Azerbaijan untrue
For the past few days, the whole blogosphere and many of the media are actively discussing the provocative video, spread by Lithuanian online publication 15min.lt. In the video, two men allegedly offer money for the viewers to vote for Azerbaijan at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest and talk in detail about the mechanism of rigging the vote. The other day, the provocative video was discussed ...
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Russia Azerbaijan Seek New Oil Transit Deal
MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and Azerbaijan are negotiating a new oil transit agreement, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said during a news conference on Tuesday after a bilateral meeting with Azerbaijan’s foreign minister. "Our respective energy agencies and companies are working on preparing a new intergovernmental agreement which will reflect current ...
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Relations between Azerbaijan and Russia are very positive – FM
Moscow and Baku have reviewed the agenda of Russian-Azerbaijani relations and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict - the biggest problem facing Azerbaijan. The statement came from Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov after talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow. "Relations between Azerbaijan and Russia are very positive from the point of view of different areas. ...
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Russia Azerbaijan prepare to sign new agreement on Azeri oil transit - Lavrov
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China Tajikistan vow deeper strategic partnership
China and Tajikistan are ready to add substantial content to their strategic partnership, top Chinese leaders said as they met with Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon on Monday.Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), and Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli held separate meetings with Rakhmon in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Monday ...
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Statement by Chairman of Assembly of Armenians of Azerbaijan real provocation
Armenians are characterized by the tendency to turn everything going on around into the myth. Political scientist Fikrat Sadikhov has told this to 1news.az, commenting on the statement of the chairman of so-called "Assembly of Armenians of Azerbaijan" Grigory Ayvazyan that allegedly "at this time, one million Armenian community is given an historic opportunity with its ...
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No deteriorated relations with Azerbaijan – Russian minister
"Any deterioration in relations between the two countries is out of the question," Lavrov said. In a joint press conference with Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov answered journalists’ questions as to Russia’s suspension of the use of Gabala radar and export of Azerbaijan’s oil via Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline. ...
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Nabucco-West backerstake pot shot at rival bid
By Vladimir Socor The governments of transit countries in the Nabucco-West project - Austria, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria - have appealed to the European Union's top executive authorities to support the selection of this pipeline route by the Shah Deniz gas producers in Azerbaijan. The producers' consortium intends to select either the Nabucco-West route to Central Europe, or ...
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Kazakhstan capital's next challenge
Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, has experienced rapid growth in recent years and has seen the completion of some impressive architectural feats, now there are plans by the government to build a huge indoor city within the capital, providing the country with a modern feat of engineering and a tourist attraction of which to be proud.
Astana and Dubai, despite vast differences, have a few things in common as cities. Dubai is not the capital of the United Arab Emirates, while Astana is the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana is one of the coldest capitals in the world while Dubai is in one of the hottest regions on the planet. But Astana, like Dubai, has experienced rapid development in recent years, due in large part to the relocation of the capital to the city, and like Dubai, it has had to make sometimes impressive adaptations to architecture and development in order to compensate for the climate. Read more
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