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<title>RI to become sugar self-reliant next year: Minister</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186898564</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 07:50 GMT</pubDate>
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... RI to become sugar self-reliant next year: Minister Mustaqim Adamrah , The Jakarta Post ,  ...  the stock,&quot; she said. According to the ministry, national production of white sugar is estimated  ...  Indonesia, as well as privately owned Bank Central Asia. The Agriculture Ministry&apos;s director general of plantations  ...
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<title>Medvedev says Russia &apos;nation to be reckoned with&apos;</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186897131</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 07:35 GMT</pubDate>
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...  in the same circumstances pontificate about free elections and national dignity and the need to  ...  a strategic corridor for Caspian Sea and Central Asian oil and gas. Georgia&apos;s desire to join  ...  of Avignon, the European Union&apos;s 27 foreign ministers were holding talks Saturday to see how  ...
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<title>The OSCE Needs to Take New Strategic Approach in Central Asia  ICG Report</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186897045</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 07:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  NEEDS TO TAKE NEW STRATEGIC APPROACH IN CENTRAL ASIA ICH REPORT A leading think-tank says the  ...  perhaps the best-positioned international organization to promote Central Asian stability, should significantly expand the resources that  ...  in all five Central Asian states  Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Most of  ...
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<title>Uzbekistan Holds Elections  Without Opposition</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186897044</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 07:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  President Islam Karimov&apos;s commitment to democratization in Uzbekistan. Election officials have excluded all opposition parties  ...  of the number sent to observe neighboring Kazakhstan&apos;s September parliamentary elections. The observer mission&apos;s web  ...  Editors Note : Erica Marat is a Central Asia analyst and PhD candidate at the University  ...
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<title>United States Must Encourage Russia to Democratize  Report</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186897040</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 07:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  says geopolitical competition in the Caucasus and Central Asia is eroding the ability of the United  ...  strong diplomatic support for President Mikheil Saakashvili&apos;s administration, which has clashed with Moscow on a  ...  Act to promote transparent presidential and parliamentary elections in 2007-2008. In perhaps the most controversial  ...
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<title>Uzbek Government Engaged in &quot;Wanton Slaughter&quot; of Unarmed Protesters in Andijan  Report</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186897037</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 07:34 GMT</pubDate>
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... UZBEK GOVERNMENT ENGAGED IN &quot;WANTON SLAUGHTER&quot; OF UNARMED  ...  the Andijan events, in both Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. &quot;The scale of this killing was so  ...  and economic developments of the Caucasus and Central Asia. It is a program of the Open  ...
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<title>Oil markets: when is a fundamental a &apos;fundamental&apos;? Some inconvenient geopolitical truths</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186896072</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 07:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  nuclear capabilities. Contractual instability in Russia and Central Asia also came as a supposed surprise to  ...  of the BTC pipeline and access to Central Asian oil reserves that feed it, or looming  ...  inhibiting further investment. Venezuela, Angola, Algeria, Bolivia, Kazakhstan, Libya and Nigeria are merely a short  ...
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<title>India hopes ONGC seals Imperial deal in five weeks</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186895515</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 07:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Imperial deal in five weeks Indian Oil Minister Murli Deora said yesterday he hoped state-run  ...  &quot;I recently met the Russian President in Tajikistan. He was very cooperative ... I hope  ...
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<title>Russia, NATO The crisis deepens</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186894055</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 07:06 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the region in large numbers Russias Prime Minister Vladimir Putin last week accused Washington of  ...  rebel region, Abkhazia, as independent states. Georgia&amp;rsquo;s Parliament called for the government to cut diplomatic  ...  nations at a summit in Dushanbe, the Tajikistan capital. A statement released by the six  ...
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<title>U.S. flagship reaches Georgian port held by Russia</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186893522</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 06:59 GMT</pubDate>
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...  by members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization - linking Moscow with Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - also praised Russia for helping peace and security in the region.  ...
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<title>Prosecutors: German terror cell targeted Americans</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186893512</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 06:59 GMT</pubDate>
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...  and Israeli embassies in July 2004 in Uzbekistan - according to a statement with new  ...  which were to be carried out before parliament voted in October, 2007, to extend Germany&apos;s  ...
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<title>List of participants of The 7th International Conference &quot;Grain Industry - 2008&quot; is available on the site of IA APK-Inform</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186892870</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 06:58 GMT</pubDate>
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...  market of CIS countries: Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan; &quot; Grain by-products market: trading prospects for  ...  Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Ministry of Agricultural Policy of Ukraine, Institute of  ...
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<title>Chris de Burgh to perform in Iran</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186891754</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 06:44 GMT</pubDate>
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...  an hour of the announcement. The Iranian Ministry of Culture confirmed that a performing license  ...  as the Persian speaking residents of Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Turkey and Azerbaijan. Since 2001, Arian has  ...
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<title>12:44pm UK schools Kazakh upper-crust</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186888910</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 06:12 GMT</pubDate>
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... Kazakh businessman Serzhan Zhumashov says some of his  ...  Almaty, the first British private school in Central Asia and a concrete sign of the economic  ...  best-known alumnus was Britain&apos;s post-war Labour prime minister, Clement Attlee. It is among several British  ...
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<title>Car Bombing Kills at Least 6 In City in Northwestern Iraq</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=186884086</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 05:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  capital of Nineveh Province, is split among Turkmens, Sunni and Shiites and was once a  ...  their own political will, he said. The Parliament broke for recess last month without passing  ...  director of public health for the Health Ministry, said that the cases are still under  ...
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