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Hungary vetoes €18 billion aid package for Ukraine, EU seeks alternative solution

The Hungarian government has blocked an €18 billion aid package for Ukraine, forcing the European Commission and other EU countries to seek an alternative solution. The Commission is looking into providing an alternative mechanism for channeling funds to Ukraine in January, but this will require national budgetary guarantees which may take some time.

Maximiliaan va… Tue, 12/06/2022 - 16:23

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Exiled Russian broadcaster TV Rain ordered to close by Latvian media regulator

Russia's last remaining independent television channel station, Dozhd TV, commonly known in English as TV Rain, has been ordered to close by Latvia's media regulator less than five months after moving operations to Riga.

Latvia's media regulator, The National Electronic Media Council (NEPLP), announced the ruling on Tuesday (6 December), ordering TV Rain to cease operations by Friday 8 December. It said the decision to order the station to close was taken "in connection with threats to national security and public order."

patrickn97 Tue, 12/06/2022 - 14:01

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The August 2008 Georgia-Russia War in ten questions and answers.

6 August 2013

Five years have passed since Georgia and Russia fought a short but costly war that again brought suffering and death on a huge scale to the Caucasus. Lessons need to be learnt and the world and the people of the region together must say "Never again", and must with their actions and their will avoid the spiral that leads to war. Commonspace.eu summarises the conflict and its background in ten short questions and answers as an introduction to a series of articles, interviews and special reports which we will be publishing over the next few days

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Commentary: The Bolero of Minsk. "Something has to change that will shuffle all the certainties and create a new basis for negotiations".

16 April 2013

"Something has to change that will shuffle all the certainties and create a new basis for negotiations".

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OPINION: Ashot Manucharyan: "By removing all its forces from the presidential race the Kremlin made it clear that it wanted the ruling regime to stay in power."

8 April 2013

ArmInfo’s Interview with Ashot Manucharyan, member of the Karabakh Committee, national security advisor to the first President of Armenia

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OPINION: Vadim Mukhanov - "Regular Russian-French-American mediation will sooner or later put pressure on parties to Nagorno-Karabakh conflict"

26 January 2013

ArmInfo’s Interview with Vadim Mukhanov, senior researcher at the Center for Caucasus Studies of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations

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OPINION: Andrey Ryabov - "Russia has no competitors in post-Soviet space, so Eurasian Union project has big chances to succeed"

11 December 2012

ArmInfo’s interview with Andrey Ryabov, analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center

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3 April: Vladimir Putin’s third term as Russian president should be his last, the majority of respondents of a public opinion poll conducted by the Levada Center pollster said. (Vedomosti)

3 April 2012

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15 March: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday said deputy ministers as well as chiefs of federal services could be appointed on a competitive basis and their work could be evaluated through opinion polls on social networks. (Rossiiskaya Gazeta)

15 March 2012

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Armenian PM happy with level of military technical co-operation with Russia

29 October 2011

Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan expressed his satisfaction with the present level of military-technical cooperation between Armenia and Russia and noted that this is of major importance in the relations between the two strategic allies.

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USUBOV IN YEREVAN. The Interior Minister is the highest ranking Azerbaijani official ever to travel to Armenia officially since the collapse of the USSR.

14 October 2011

The highest ranking Azerbaijani official ever to travel to Armenia officially since the collapse of the Soviet Union has arrived in Yerevan. The Minister of Interior Ramil Usubov is participating in a meeting of CIS Interior Ministers

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The August 2008 Georgia-Russia War in ten questions and answers.

Commentary: The Bolero of Minsk. "Something has to change that will shuffle all the certainties and create a new basis for negotiations".

OPINION: Ashot Manucharyan: "By removing all its forces from the presidential race the Kremlin made it clear that it wanted the ruling regime to stay in power."

OPINION: Vadim Mukhanov - "Regular Russian-French-American mediation will sooner or later put pressure on parties to Nagorno-Karabakh conflict"

OPINION: Andrey Ryabov - "Russia has no competitors in post-Soviet space, so Eurasian Union project has big chances to succeed"

3 April: Vladimir Putin’s third term as Russian president should be his last, the majority of respondents of a public opinion poll conducted by the Levada Center pollster said. (Vedomosti)

15 March: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday said deputy ministers as well as chiefs of federal services could be appointed on a competitive basis and their work could be evaluated through opinion polls on social networks. (Rossiiskaya Gazeta)

Armenian PM happy with level of military technical co-operation with Russia

USUBOV IN YEREVAN. The Interior Minister is the highest ranking Azerbaijani official ever to travel to Armenia officially since the collapse of the USSR.