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Iranians celebrate Hassan Rouhani's election as president
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Supporters of the reformist-backed cleric Hassan Rouhani celebrate his victory READ MORE...
Baltic Breeze: Lithuania Is The First Baltic State To Take Over The EU Council Presidency
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Taking over the EU Council Presidency, Lithuania will focus on pursing credible, growing and open Europe, country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said at the launch event of the Official Guide to the Lithuanian EU Council P...
Russian-Chinese Energy Competition in Central Asia
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By Maria Prosviryakova The strategic importance of Central Asia and its vast energy resources draw a lot of external interest to it...
Russian-Chinese Energy Competition in Central Asia
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By Maria Prosviryakova The strategic importance of Central Asia and its vast energy resources draw a lot of external interest to it...
A triumvirate of Eurasian Allies Moscow, Astana and Tashkent Are Forming New Geopolitical Axe
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By Viktoria Panfilova The visit of the Secretary of State Grigoriy Karasin, Vice Minister of the Foreign Affairs Minister of the Russian Federation to Tashkent became the continuation of the dialogue, started in Moscow this April b...
Arctic Norwegian town looks north to Barents Sea oil and gas
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As both Norway and Russia race to extract potentially vast amounts of energy from the Barents Sea, a small Norwegian town in the high Arctic could become the hub for a new era of oil and gas exploration. READ MORE...
Arctic Norwegian town looks north to Barents Sea oil and gas
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As both Norway and Russia race to extract potentially vast amounts of energy from the Barents Sea, a small Norwegian town in the high Arctic could become the hub for a new era of oil and gas exploration. READ MORE...
LITHUANIAN PRESIDENCY APPROACHING: INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION IS NECESSARY TO ACHIEVE COMMON EU GOALS
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Lithuanian foreign affairs vice-minister Vytautas Leškevičius, while presenting the principal goals of the Lithuanian Presidency of the European Union (EU) Council in the Conference of Committee Chairs of the European Parliament (EP) in S...
NATO Defence Ministers endorse concept for new post-2014 mission in Afghanistan
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NATO Defence Ministers on Wednesday (5 June 2013) endorsed the detailed concept for the new NATO-led mission to train, advise and assist the Afghan security forces after 2014. “That concept will guide our military experts as they finalise the p...
Bilateral meeting between General Bartels and Lieutenant General Qi Jianguo, Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army
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The Chairman of NATO's Military Committee, General Knud Bartels, attended the 12th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Asia Security Summit ''The Shangri-La Dialogue 2013'' in Singapore from 31 May to 2 June. READ MORE...
Renewable energy sources: toward energy security?
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By Inga Sapronaitytė All countries should give high priority to the development of renewable energy sources (RES) and their ef...
Geopolitical Journey: The Search for Belonging and Ballistic Missile Defense in Romania
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video By George Friedman During the Cold War, Romania confused all of us.
The Platform for Full Cooperation
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Developing countries intend to suggest the world community a new format of response towards global challenges. In the end of June 2013 Kazakhstan, which has launched an interactive platform G-Global, intends to sound the recommendations for the leade...
Ambassador Ion Stavila: The main thing in Transdniestrian settlement is not to stand still
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On May 23, Odesa hosted the next round of negotiations on the Transdniestrian settlement in the 5+2 format (Chisinau and Tiraspol as the parties to the conflict, Russia, Ukraine and the OSCE as mediators, and the EU and the United States as observers...
Ambassador Ion Stavila: The main thing in Transdniestrian settlement is not to stand still
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On May 23, Odesa hosted the next round of negotiations on the Transdniestrian settlement in the 5+2 format (Chisinau and Tiraspol as the parties to the conflict, Russia, Ukraine and the OSCE as mediators, and the EU and the United States as observers...
Obama, Xi summit could help define U.S.-China relationship for years to come
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By Scott Wilson and William Wan President Obama and his new Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, will retreat to the California desert...
Italian Story of the Escaped Oligarch’s Family
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By Alina Kantor There is a new turn in the case of the escaped Kazakhstani ex-banker Mukhtar Ablyazov. Ablyazov has blamed the auth...
NATO Starts Security Drills in the Baltics
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NATO countries start on Monday large-scale security cooperation exercises on the territory of the former Soviet republics in the Baltic region, the Estonian military said. READ MORE...
Turkish Cyprus demands deadline for peace talks, rejects ‘perpetual negotiations'
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By Sinem Cengiz Frustrated by decades of unfruitful negotiations between the Turkish and Greek sides to reunify the divided island...
President: Access to Baltic Sea important for Kazakhstan
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Access to the Baltic Sea is important for Kazakhstan, the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev said at a press conference on Monday following a meeting with his Latvian counterpart Andris Berzins in Astana. READ MORE...
