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  • Vice President Hamid Ansari leaves for a four-day official visit to Uzbekistan

    Vice President Hamid Ansari today left on a four-day visit to Uzbekistan during which the two nations will discuss issues of cooperation in counter-terrorism, Afghanistan and development projects in the region will come up for discussion. Ansari is travelling with a high-level delegation to Tashkent where he will meet Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov. Issues relating to Afghanistan will come ...

  • Azerbaijan - Azeri blogger and activist allegedly tortured

    The Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) is appalled by reports that Ministry of Interior officials - as yet unnamed - tortured blogger and activist Rashad Ramazanov (a.k.a. Hagigat Agaadin) during a custodial interrogation. The Azerbaijani authorities should establish an immediate and independent investigation into this barbaric case and hold those responsible for ...

  • Joint probe into Russias Eurovision votes stolen in Azerbaijan

    17/05/2013 11:07 CET Russia and Azerbaijan are joining forces to investigate a Eurovision scandal that saw votes for Russia’s entry vanish. Moscow’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has described as ';outrageous'; the revelations by Azerbaijan that although its country’s voters had put Dina Garipova’s ballad second, she got ';nul points'; instead of ...

  • Kyrgyzstan shutting down key US route to Afghanistan

    President Almazbek Atambayev has repeatedly pledged to shut down the Manas Transit Center in 2014, dismissing U.S. assumptions that the base would remain in exchange for higher rent. The United States currently pays $60 million annually for the base.Atambayev said the Kyrgyz Cabinet had drafted a bill on the base closure and submitted it to parliament. He said Kyrgyzstan would compensate for the ...

  • Kyrgyzstan bent on evicting US air base in 2014

    BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -; Kyrgyzstan's president has reaffirmed that next year the Central Asian nation will evict the U.S. air base that supports military operations in nearby ...


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A Life Less Ordinary

"A Life Less Ordinary" premiered in theaters with heavy anticipation as the follow-up film by director Danny Boyle, screenwriter John Hodge, and actor Ewan McGregor, the team that brought the wildly entertaining "Trainspotting" (1995) to life. Unfortunately, the film was ransacked by critics and, worse, lost on audiences. Its love story of a kidnapping-gone-wrong mixed with heavenly angels and ear ... ...

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  • Roadman of Kyrgyzstan’s accession of Customs Union to be worked out before yearend

    BISHKEK, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Quite a lot of steps are to be made to have Kyrgyzstan join the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev said on ...

  • Kyrgyzstan may not renew US lease on base

    USA The Kyrgyz government has penned a bill that would see the closure of the US-leased Manas air base in July next year. The country will lose $60 million for not extending the ...

  • Putin takes on Nigeria Navy

    By John Helmer MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin will raise with West African leaders the case of the Myre Seadiver and its 15-man Russian crew, who were arrested and imprisoned on trumped-up charges in Nigeria last October. [1] Putin arrived in Durban, South Africa, on March 26 for a two-day visit. The Myre Seadiver crew have been accused by the Nigerian Navy of arms smuggling, charges ...

  • TAP surges ahead of Nabucco-West

    By Vladimir Socor Among the roles of Gazprom's South Stream pipeline project was that of aborting the European Union-backed Nabucco, merely by threatening to preempt Nabucco's markets along the same route downstream. Conversely, Nabucco's European rival Trans-Adriatic Pipeline project (TAP) can abort Nabucco by preempting the gas supply source upstream. Both TAP and the ...

  • Russian International Olympic University signs cooperation agreement with Kazakhstan

    Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as ...

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