Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan led a high level delegation to the Iranian capital Tehran on 27-28 March for bilateral talks aimed to deepen already solid commercial ties between the two neighbouring countries. IHS Global Insight Perspective Significance – The Armenian and Iranian leaders have pledged to boost commercial and energy co-operation between the two …
read moreA partial vote count has given the "Twitter Revolution" a fighting chance as reformist parties in Moldova secured a narrow lead over the strong Communist opposition in early elections yesterday, although there are concerns that a snap election might fail to resolve the political stalemate over the election of a new president. Twitter Revolution Parties …
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An unknown low-level bureaucrat, Yuri Luzhkov, became one of the most influential politicians in modern-day Russia . In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union he quickly rose through the ranks of Moscow City Hall and in 1992 landed the post of Moscow’s mayor, being endorsed by then-president Boris Yeltsin, and was re-elected …
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Moldova’s ruling Alliance for European Integration (AEI) was left stunned as low voter turnout failed the long-awaited constitutional referendum, making a snap parliamentary election inevitable. Unexpected Failure Moldova’s ruling collation, the Alliance for European Integration (AEI) was stunned by the failure of the 5 September constitutional referendum. The Central Elections Committee (CEC) chairman Yuri Chokan …
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Less than a year after signing a multi-billion-dollar energy and trade agreement with China , Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin has inaugurated the Russian branch of a pipeline to supply oil to China . On 29 August Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin launched opened an 84-km section of a crude oil pipeline spur running from …
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