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East Asia
BRICS should help lead world economy out of woods in time of uncertainty
At a time when a strong and sustainable global recovery remains elusive, the BRICS nations should come even closer together and help lead the world economy out of the woods, just as they had done in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis. Later this week, leaders of the…
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Central Asia
CSTO Leaders Agree to Set Up Crisis Response Center
The leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member-states have decided to set up a joint crisis response center to exchange information on common threats, including terrorism, and make decisions in real time, RFERL/RL reports. Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian, who is hosting a meeting of the CSTO summit on…
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Central Asia
Russia completes delivery of S-300 to Iran
Russia has completed the delivery of S-300 air defence missile systems to Iran, Russia’s state arms export agency said, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. Russia’s agreement to provide Iran with S-300 has sparked concern in Israel. Moscow cancelled the contract to deliver S-300s to Iran in 2010 under pressure from the West.…
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Central Asia
Putin cancels Paris visit
Russian President Vladimir Putin has canceled his upcoming trip to Paris. The move comes after French President Francois Hollande accused the Kremlin of committing war crimes in Syria, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. Speaking in an interview with French television channel TF1, Hollande said that he was unsure whether meeting Putin would…
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West Asia
Iran calls on West to protect Yemen from Saudi Arabia
The Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, said the Yemeni army and popular forces would counter Riyadh’s air strikes that targeted a crowded funeral ceremony in the Yemeni capital Sana’a in the battlefields, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. Shamkhani underscored that the US government is the main partner of…
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Central Asia
Russia, Turkey sign agreement on Turkish Stream gas pipeline project
Turkey and Russia signed the strategic Turkish Stream gas pipeline agreement on Oct. 10, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. The pipeline will carry Russian natural gas to Turkey and on to Europe under the Black Sea. During the signing ceremony with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said…
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East Asia
Post-Soviet military bloc to hold drills in three member states in 2017
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) plans to hold large-scale collective forces’ drills dubbed Combat Brotherhood on the territory of Armenia, Kazakhstan and Russia in October 2017, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov said on October 7, TASS reports. “This year, four CSTO exercises have been held…
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West Asia
Ilham Aliyev among most influential Muslims of the world
Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center of Amman published The Muslim 500 rating of this year. Just like last year, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev was among 500 most influential Muslims of the world in the category of “Politics”, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. The leaders of this year’s rating are Professor Ahmad…
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West Asia
Ruling Party Prevails in Georgian Parliamentary Elections
Georgia’s governing party has won parliamentary elections according to near-complete results released amid accusations of vote rigging from the opposition, RFERL/RL reports. With votes in 99 percent of the constituencies now counted, the Georgian Dream party had clinched about 48.6 percent while the opposition United National Movement (ENM) came in…
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South East Asia
Iran and Vietnam cancel visa regime
Iran and Vietnam have signed two documents for bilateral cooperation in the presence of the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. The first document was signed by the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Vietnamese counterpart Phạm Binh Minh. The agreement…
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