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“For us, the initiative to form a Union of Central Asian States is unacceptable. I want to declare once and for all so that no speculation remains, “ announced the President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov on June 22. -- 04/29/2008 >>>

The President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko announced the necessity of widening the Ukrainian business presence on the Libyan market in a meeting with Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. -- 04/29/2008 >>>

Kiev is seriously concerned about the Kremlin’s decision to raise the status of its relations with Abkhazia and South Ossetia. -- 04/29/2008 >>>

Over 100 participants, including health officials from the five Central Asian governments gathered on April 8 at a regional forum in Ashgabat discussing mother and child nutrition in Central Asia. -- 04/29/2008 >>>

According to assessments of independent and Turkmen experts, Turkmenistan has 20.8 billion tons of oil and 24.6 trillion cubic meters of natural gas. -- 04/29/2008 >>>

With the help of the Republican Mine Action Center, 1,216 hectares of Tajik territory has been cleared of landmines, with 20,000,000 square meters of land still needing to be swept. -- 04/29/2008 >>>

Tajikistan Geologists opened a deposit of quartz sand and fire-proof clay in the foothills of the Hissar mountains. 

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The general director of the Russian Institute of Radio Navigation, Sergei Pisarev, said on April 7 that Russia's satellite navigation services market will be worth 160 billion rubles ($6.6 billion) by 2015. -- 04/29/2008 >>>

In time for Earth Day, Russian organization Green Patrol released a first of a kind rating on the environmental condition of 75 subjects of the Russian Federation. -- 04/29/2008 >>>

On April 11, 2008 President of the Moldovan Republic Vladimir Voronin and Transdniester leader Igor Smirnov sat down for talks for the first time since August 2001 in Bender. -- 04/29/2008 >>>

An interview with Peter Duncan of University College London, author of Russian Messianism: Third Rome, Revolution, Communism and After. -- 04/17/2008 >>>