14 March: Azerbaijan and Turkey are set to sign an agreement to move forward with the Turkish part of the South Caucasus gas pipeline, the Azerbaijani Energy Minister Natik Aliyev said Tuesday in Kuwait. Aliyev said he expects the intergovernmental agreem

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12 March: A counterterrorist operation is underway in an area of country houses in Kabardino-Balkaria's Chegem district. A group of gunmen is blocked in a house. They opened fire in response to the order to surrender. Fighting is continuing there.(It

12 March: The Defence Minister of Azerbaijan, Colonel-General Safar Abiyev is in Tehran on an official visit at the invitation of his Iranian counterpart General Ahmad Vahidi. (APA)

11 March: Parliamentary elections in Abkhazia ended on Saturday with turnout nearing 40 percent, sufficient to consider them legitimate, local authorities said. (RIA Novosti)

11 March: Thousands of opponents of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rallied under the banner “For Fair Elections” in Moscow and several other major cities in Russia on Saturday. In contrast with March 5 protests, the rallies were held without serious public

10 March: A new natural gas field has been discovered in Turkmenistan, state TV reported. The gas field, able to produce up to 1.5 million cubic meters of natural gas daily, was discovered at the Bagtyyarlyk area, a large contractual production sharing ag

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