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Uzbekistan to Sign $1 Billion Production Sharing Deal with Gazprom

Uzbekistan’s national energy company Uzbekneftegaz will sign a production sharing agreement worth $1 billion with Russian gas giant Gazprom in March 2006... -- 12/20/2005 >>>

Karimov Lets Germans Keep Airbase

Uzbek authorities said on 10 December that Germany’s 300-strong troop contingent, stationed at an airfield in the southern town of Termez, may remain in the country... -- 12/20/2005 >>>

Lawmakers Back State of Emergency in Bird Flu-Hit Crimea

The Ukrainian parliament passed a resolution on 6 December imposing a state of emergency in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in response to the recent bird flu outbreak... -- 12/20/2005 >>>

Ukraine Admitted to Southeastern European Security Group

Ukraine joined the Southeastern Europe Defense Ministerial (SEDM) on 6 December... -- 12/20/2005 >>>

Yushchenko Mulls Using Chornobyl As Nuclear-Waste Dump

President Viktor Yushchenko said on 8 December he will consider the possibility of using the former Chornobyl nuclear plant as a dumping ground for spent nuclear fuel from abroad... -- 12/20/2005 >>>

Turkmen Trade Turnover in First Ten Months Up

Turkmenistan’s total trade turnover exceeded $6.9 billion in January-October 2005, up 17.3 percent year on year... -- 12/20/2005 >>>

Suspected Members of Radical Islamic Group Detained

Eight people, suspected of belonging to the banned Uzbek Islamic Movement (UIM), were arrested on 5 December in the city of Khudzhand in northern Tajikistan... -- 12/20/2005 >>>

Tajikistan: Land Mines Still Taking Toll Despite Demining Progress

The Tajik Center for Land Mine Problems (TTMV) issued a press release on 13 December stating that 1,800 antipersonnel land mines and unexploded projectiles (approximately 10 percent of all mines in the country)  were successfully deactivated in Tajikistan in 2005... -- 12/20/2005 >>>

Russia, India in Talks over Sharing Tajik Airfield

Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said on 5 December that his country and India could share the Aini airfield in Tajikistan... -- 12/20/2005 >>>

Russia: Chechen Refugees Repatriated

About 140 Chechen refugees, who have been residing in the Pankisi gorge of eastern Georgia since 1999, returned to Chechnya on 6 December... -- 12/20/2005 >>>
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