20:21
RUSSIA, BELARUS HOLD CONSULTATIONS ON EUROPEAN SECURITY AND OSCE
Russia and Belarus emphasize their readiness to actively cooperate in coordinating draft documents of the Council of the OSCE foreign minsters which is going to hold a meeting in Bucharest, on December 3-4.
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19:41
ALEXANDER GOROBETS: UKRAINE NEEDLES RUSSIA TO PLEASE WASHINGTON
11 months have passed since the Ukrainian parliament declared the involvement of the top officials to the disappearance of an opposition-oriented journalist. This was actually a break in the official relations between Kiev and Washington
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19:40
RUSSIA, TURKMENISTAN IN TALKS ON DRAFT GAS PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
Russian-Turkmen negotiations are through another round to draft a long-term agreement for gas industrial partnership, the Turkmen cabinet reports from Ashgabat.
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19:05
YURI RAZGULYAYEV: KYRGHYZSTAN’S ILLEGAL ISLAMISTS OPERATE IN CONCERT WITH TALIBAN
The Kyrghyz underground religious political party Khizbut Takhrir is connected with the Taliban movement, according to the National Security Service of this former Soviet Central-Asian republic located in the scenic Ala Tau mountains. The sources report that the illegal organization numbers as little as some 4,000 members.
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18:35
RUSSIAN BORDER-GUARDS PREVENT ARMED SMUGGLERS FROM CROSSING TAJIK BORDER
Russian border-guards have prevented armed smugglers from crossing the Tajik-Afghan border. According to the Russian border guards' press service, the incident took place on Wednesday at a stretch of the border guarded by the Moskovsky detachment.
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18:28
PYOTR YERMILIN: THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT DECIDES TO SORT OUT FORMER USSR CITIZENS
Valentina Matvieynko, the vice-premier of the Russian Government, said that the executive power was going to attract intellectual resources from the neighboring countries. Matviyenko referred to the necessity of solving the Russian demographic problem
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17:09
PRESIDENT OF EU COUNCIL LOUIS MICHEL SPEAKS OUT IN FAVOUR OF DEVELOMENT OF EU-UZBEK RELATIONS
Consolidation and development of EU-Uzbek relations is the aim of his visit to Tashkent, President of the EU Council, Belgian Vice Premier, Foreign Minister Louis Michel told a news conference following his visit to the republic on Wednesday.
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16:39
GEORGIAN PRESIDENT ACCEPTS RESIGNATION OF STATE SECURITY MINISTER VAKHTANG KUTATELADZE
On Wednesday Georgia's President Eduard Shevardnadze has accepted resignation of Vakhtang Kutateladze, Minister of State Security, the RIA Novosti correspondent was told at the office of the Georgian government.
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16:31
NUMBER OF RUSSIANS WILLING TO MOVE TO RUSSIA REDUCES IN KIRGHIZIA
The number of Russians willing to become Russia's permanent residents has significantly reduced in Kirghizia, reported at a Wednesday press conference head of the Russian migration service mission to Bishkek Boris Asaulyuk.
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16:17
GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT PROPOSES TO CALL EMERGENCY SESSION TO DISCUSS RUSTAVI-2 INCIDENT
The Georgian parliament has appealed to the president to call an emergency session of the supreme legislative body to discuss the incident around the independent TV company Rustavi-2.
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16:11
FOREIGN COUNTRIES FREEZE LONG-TERM SUPPORT PROGRAMMES FOR GEORGIAN ARMED FORCES
David Tevzadze, the Georgia Defence Minister, reported that all foreign long-term support programmes including those of the United States, for the Georgian Armed Forces had been frozen.
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15:32
PREPARATIONS FOR A MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF THE UNION STATE OF RUSSIA AND BELARUS TO BE DISCUSSED IN MINSK
Pavel Borodin, state secretary of the Union State of Russia and Belarus, will arrive in Minsk on November 1 to meet Belarussian premier Gennady Novitsky, a spokesman at the information department of the standing committee - the executive body of the Union state - told RIA Novosti.
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14:50
ANDREI LUBENSKI: CONSTITUTION HINDERS THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT
If the constitution had not been passed, local self-government in Ukraine would have had more chances for development. This paradoxical statement has been made in the city of Cherkassy by Valeri Asadchev, the head of local budgets sub-committee of the Supreme Rada’s Budget Committee.
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14:29
RUSSIA TO ATTRACT INTELLECTUAL AND LABOR RESOURCES FROM CIS COUNTRIES
Russia intends to attract intellectual and labor resources from CIS countries - the former Soviet republics - as part of its policy in the field of labor migration. Russian vice-premier Valentina Matviyenko told this the press on Wednesday.
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14:05
KYRGYZSTAN ASKED RUSSIA FOR MILITARY AID
On Tuesday the Defence Ministry of Kyrgyzstan asked Russia for military aid, according to the Russian military attache in Bishkek Vladimir Varfolomeyev.
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12:55
ROMANIAN PRESIDENT ION ILIESCU WILL PAY AN OFFICIAL VISIT TO ARMENIA
Romanian President Ion Iliescu on Wednesday arrives in Armenia on a two-day official visit, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the Armenian President.
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10:33
PRESIDENT OF TAJIKISTAN EMOMALI RAKHMONOV MEETS AMERICAN GENERAL TOMMY FRANKS
President of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmonov and commander-in-chief, the US Central Command, General Tommy Franks discussed the military-political situation in the Islamic state of Afghanistan.
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21:19
BUSH HAS PHONE TALKS WITH ARMENIA, AZERI PRESIDENTS
President George W. Bush had telephone conferences today with Presidents Geidar Aliev of Azerbaijan and Robert Kocharyan of Armenia, reports Ari Fleischer, White House press spokesman
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17:11
YURY RAZGULAYEV: IT IS HARD TO GET AN EDUCATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF KYRGYZIA
The secondary schools of the republic of Kyrgyzia are currently experiencing a very serious crisis. There is a lack of everything: class rooms, visual aids, text books, and teachers
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16:06
UKRAINE DESTROYED ITS LAST SS-24 SILO
Ukrain destroyed its last silo for the SS-24 inter-continental ballistic missiles on Monday
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14:41
A DRAFT CONSTITUTIONAL ACT OF THE RUSSIA-BELARUS UNION STATE WILL BE DRAWN UP BY NOVEMBER 5-7
A draft constitutional act of the Russia-Belarus Union state is to be drawn up by November 5-7. This information was reported Tuesday at the session of the commission for security, defence and the fight against crime of the Union's Parliamentary Assembly.
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14:20
DMITRY LITVINOVICH: GEORGIA ACCUSES RUSSIA OF THE MURDER OF 1700 CIVILIANS
In Abkhazia, the Gelaev band has been completely annihilated, while the fate of Gelaev himself is unknown. The conflict in Abkhazia flares up with new power. Georgian Parliament Chairman Zurab Zhvania practically accused Russian peacekeepers located in the conflict zone of the murder of 1700 civilians.
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13:09
RUSSIAN BORDER GUARDS IN TAJIKISTAN SUPPRESS ATTEMPTED SMUGGLING OF HEROIN FROM AFGHANISTAN
Russian border guards in Tajikistan have suppressed an attempted smuggling of heroin from Afghanistan.
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10:33
UKRAINE TO LIQUIDATE THE LAST SS-24 ICBM
Ukraine is going to liquidate on Tuesday the last out of 46 SS-24 ICBM silos which it inherited from the Soviet Union. The press service of the Ukrainian defence ministry reported that the liquidation of the silo will take place near the town of Pervomaisk, Nikolayev region, where the 43rd army of the Strategic Missile Force was deployed in the Soviet times.
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10:04
EUROPEAN UNION DEVELOPS COOPERATION WITH AZERBAIJAN, ARMENIA AND GEORGIA
On Tuesday Luxemburg will host sessions of the cooperation councils of the European Union with Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia. The sessions have been timed to the session of the EU Foreign Ministers' Council which opened on October 29.
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09:57
HEAD OF THE US CENTRAL COMMAND TOMMY FRANKS WILL CONDUCT NEGOTIATIONS IN TASHKENT
The head of the US Central Command, General Tommy Franks, who carries out general guidance of the US military operation against Afghanistan, on Tuesday will arrive in Tashkent to conduct negotiations with the Defence and Foreign Ministers of Uzbekistan.
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18:33
YURY RAZGULAYEV: CROWD IN KYRGYZIA REPUBLIC’S AIR SPACE
A very surprising situation is now taking place in the airspace of the republic of Kyrgyzia. The military actions in Afghanistan made many airlines of the world look for roundabout routes for the flights of their planes
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13:12
AMERICAN GENERAL TO DISCUSS IN TASHKENT ISSUES OF MILITARY COOPERATION BETWEEN UZBEKISTAN AND THE USA
Issues of military cooperation between Uzbekistan and the United States and also problems of regional security will be discussed in Tashkent by General Tommy Franks, Commander-in-Chief, US Central Command, who arrived on Monday in the Uzbek capital.
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10:01
RUSSIAN BORDERGUARDS IN TAJIKISTAN REPORT POWERFUL EXPLOSIONS NEAR TALIBAN STRONG POINTS
On Sunday, Russian border guards, serving on the Tajik border, stated a series of powerful explosions on Afghan territory near the strong points of the Taliban movement.
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16:45
ABKHAZ LEGATION DENIES AIRRAIDS
The Abkhaz representation in Russia denies reports by certain media outlets of Sukhumi-stationed aircraft - six helicopters and three SU-25 war planes - bombing the vicinity of the Marukh mountain pass, Abkhazia's Gulripsha district.
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