Russia Fails to Win Over Regional Allies (Institute for War and Peace Reporting)

5 September 2008, 10:35 am

Central Asian states and China have their own separatist problems and are wary of Moscow’s recognition of secessionist entities.... read more

Defence Ministers of the Americas seek co-operation to fight crime (Times & Transcript)

5 September 2008, 10:07 am

Canada and the United States may be focusing their military efforts primarily on the other side of the world, but smaller countries in the Americas want attention to shift closer to home.... read more

Where they are now: Soviet Jewry series (Cleveland Jewish News)

5 September 2008, 10:06 am

When Anya Leybovich arrived in America from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in 1979, her toughest adjustment was the language, even as a 3-year-old. “I refused to speak Russian or English, so I just made up my own language that was a combination of the two,” she recalls.... read more

Russia scores Uzbek natural gas (UPI)

5 September 2008, 6:39 am

By JOHN C.K. DALY UPI International CorrespondentWASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- During Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's visit to Tashkent, he and Uzbek President Islam Karimov signed a series of agreements to sell Uzbek natural gas to Russia and upgrade two Soviet-era natural gas pipelines. The... read more

CSTO leaders to discuss military and political situation in region (Itar-Tass)

4 September 2008, 11:25 pm

MOSCOW, September 5 (Itar-Tass) - The presidents of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) – Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan – will gather in Moscow for a meeting of the CSTO supreme political body – the Collective Security Council (CSC).... read more

Russia allies fail to back Moscow on enclaves (Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News)

4 September 2008, 11:07 pm

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A group of Moscow's ex-Soviet allies on Thursday stopped short of following Russia's recognition of two breakaway regions in Georgia.... read more

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