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US, Kyrgyzstan Holding Talks Amid Political Crisis
An American envoy is holding talks in Bishkek with the leadership that replaced Kyrgyzstan’s president last week and has now stripped him of his immunity, APA reports quoting “The Voice of America”.
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How Is Electrical Power Carried Across The Sea
Two trends are emerging for future renewable electricity. In the first, local solar, wind or biomass plants will produce more energy for small communities or single homes.
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Black Sea LNG accord could 'torpedo' Nabucco gas line
Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Romania signed a memorandum of understanding to transport Azeri LNG to the European Union through a project that could come online sooner than the Nabucco gas pipeline.
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Pure pantomime from Putin in the Kyrgyz regional power play
To better understand the geopolitical dynamic of upheaval in the remote central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, it is instructive to look to Georgia, 2500 kilometres and five national borders to the west.
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Russia country profile
Russia emerged from a decade of post-Soviet economic and political turmoil to reassert itself as a world power.
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Yanukovich and Obama discuss energy security cooperation
The presidents of the USA and Ukraine, Barack Obama and Viktor Yanukovich, discussed on Monday issues of energy security and cooperation in that sphere.
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Chinese, Japanese leaders discuss bilateral ties
Chinese President Hu Jintao met Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama here on Monday to exchange views on China-Japan relations and other issues of common interest.
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Russia's Medvedev calls world nuclear summit very successful
Initiative to hold a global nuclear security summit in Washington "was absolutely timely" and the summit itself was "crowned with a complete success," Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday in a speech at the Brookings Institute on the results of the summit that had brought together the leaders of 47 countries, the UN, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the European Union.
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