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Weapons, Gas And Trade: What To Expect From Vladimir Putin's China Visit
Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to China this week to meet Xi Jinping, the Kremlin chief's first trip outside the former Soviet Union this year.
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Japan's Ispace Says Bid to Make First Commercial Moon Landing Failed After Likely Crash
Japan's ispace said its attempt to make the first private moon landing had failed after losing contact with its Hakuto-R Mission 1 (M1) lander when it unexpectedly accelerated and probably crashed on the lunar surface.
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Vladimir Putin Says Ukraine Conflict Is "Result of Soviet Collapse"
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that conflicts in countries of the former USSR, including Ukraine, are the result of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Vladimir Putin To Make First Overseas Visit Since Russia-Ukraine War: Report
Vladimir Putin will visit Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, former Soviet Union states in his first overseas trip since the Russia-Ukraine war, Russian state television Rossiya 1 reported. He will make the visit this week.
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Russian Gas Exports Drop 27 Per Cent In January-May: Gazprom
Russia's Gazprom said Wednesday its gas exports to countries outside of the former Soviet Union dropped by more than a quarter year-on-year between January and May after losing several European clients.
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Ukraine's First Post-Soviet President Dies At 88
Leonid Kravchuk, a former communist who helped signed the Soviet Union's death warrant and then served as the first president of independent Ukraine, has died at the age of 88, a senior official said on Tuesday.
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Telegram to Launch Paid Features for Business and Power Users in 2021
Telegram founder Pavel Durov said that the messaging app will launch paid features in 2021 for business and power users to generate revenue as it nears 500 million users.
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India Fourth To Test ASAT, Pioneered By US, Soviet Union 60 Years Ago
In the backdrop of the Cold War and perceived threat of strikes from space, both United States and the erstwhile USSR worked on the Anti-Satellite Weapons (ASAT) programme, but it was the former who tested it first in 1959.
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Sergei Lavrov Says Skripals May Have Been Poisoned By Substance Russia Never Made
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday the nerve agent used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Britain could have been the BZ substance - which was never produced in the Soviet Union or Russia.
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Vladimir Putin Faces Midnight Deadline To Explain Nerve Attack On Former Spy To UK
President Vladimir Putin faces a midnight deadline to explain to Britain how a nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union was used to strike down a former Russian double agent who passed secrets to British intelligence.
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North Korean Missiles Based On Motor From Ex-Soviet Plant: Report
North Korea's recent rapid progress in developing a long-range missile appears to have come after it refurbished rocket engines procured from a plant in the former Soviet Union, according to an expert report published Monday.
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Declassified Files Prove Netaji Did Not Live In USSR, Says UK Website
The 100 Indian government files declassified by India confirm that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose did not live in the former Soviet Union in or after 1945, said a UK website set up to chart the last days of the nationalist leader.
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Rajiv Gandhi Regarded Pakistan as 'Strategic Buffer' Against USSR: Report
Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was open to the idea of supporting anti-Russian civilian groups in Pakistan if the regime under General Zia-ul-Haq was ousted by the then Soviet Union, contradicting the perceived proximity between New Delhi and Moscow during the cold war era in 1985, claimed a recently declassified Central Intelligence Agency (CI...
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Azerbaijan Jails 10 for Fighting With Islamic State Radicals
A court in Azerbaijan on Wednesday sentenced 10 people to jail terms of between four to 15 years for joining Islamic State fighters, a spokesman said.
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Kazakhstan Hails Completion of 'Historic' World Trade Organization Accession Talks
Kazakhstan's president on Monday hailed the "new horizons" opening up to his country after the former Soviet state completed nearly two decades of talks on joining the World Trade Organization.
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Weapons, Gas And Trade: What To Expect From Vladimir Putin's China Visit
Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to China this week to meet Xi Jinping, the Kremlin chief's first trip outside the former Soviet Union this year.
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Japan's Ispace Says Bid to Make First Commercial Moon Landing Failed After Likely Crash
Japan's ispace said its attempt to make the first private moon landing had failed after losing contact with its Hakuto-R Mission 1 (M1) lander when it unexpectedly accelerated and probably crashed on the lunar surface.
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Vladimir Putin Says Ukraine Conflict Is "Result of Soviet Collapse"
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that conflicts in countries of the former USSR, including Ukraine, are the result of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Vladimir Putin To Make First Overseas Visit Since Russia-Ukraine War: Report
Vladimir Putin will visit Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, former Soviet Union states in his first overseas trip since the Russia-Ukraine war, Russian state television Rossiya 1 reported. He will make the visit this week.
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Russian Gas Exports Drop 27 Per Cent In January-May: Gazprom
Russia's Gazprom said Wednesday its gas exports to countries outside of the former Soviet Union dropped by more than a quarter year-on-year between January and May after losing several European clients.
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Ukraine's First Post-Soviet President Dies At 88
Leonid Kravchuk, a former communist who helped signed the Soviet Union's death warrant and then served as the first president of independent Ukraine, has died at the age of 88, a senior official said on Tuesday.
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Telegram to Launch Paid Features for Business and Power Users in 2021
Telegram founder Pavel Durov said that the messaging app will launch paid features in 2021 for business and power users to generate revenue as it nears 500 million users.
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India Fourth To Test ASAT, Pioneered By US, Soviet Union 60 Years Ago
In the backdrop of the Cold War and perceived threat of strikes from space, both United States and the erstwhile USSR worked on the Anti-Satellite Weapons (ASAT) programme, but it was the former who tested it first in 1959.
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Sergei Lavrov Says Skripals May Have Been Poisoned By Substance Russia Never Made
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday the nerve agent used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Britain could have been the BZ substance - which was never produced in the Soviet Union or Russia.
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Vladimir Putin Faces Midnight Deadline To Explain Nerve Attack On Former Spy To UK
President Vladimir Putin faces a midnight deadline to explain to Britain how a nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union was used to strike down a former Russian double agent who passed secrets to British intelligence.
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North Korean Missiles Based On Motor From Ex-Soviet Plant: Report
North Korea's recent rapid progress in developing a long-range missile appears to have come after it refurbished rocket engines procured from a plant in the former Soviet Union, according to an expert report published Monday.
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Declassified Files Prove Netaji Did Not Live In USSR, Says UK Website
The 100 Indian government files declassified by India confirm that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose did not live in the former Soviet Union in or after 1945, said a UK website set up to chart the last days of the nationalist leader.
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Rajiv Gandhi Regarded Pakistan as 'Strategic Buffer' Against USSR: Report
Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was open to the idea of supporting anti-Russian civilian groups in Pakistan if the regime under General Zia-ul-Haq was ousted by the then Soviet Union, contradicting the perceived proximity between New Delhi and Moscow during the cold war era in 1985, claimed a recently declassified Central Intelligence Agency (CI...
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Azerbaijan Jails 10 for Fighting With Islamic State Radicals
A court in Azerbaijan on Wednesday sentenced 10 people to jail terms of between four to 15 years for joining Islamic State fighters, a spokesman said.
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Kazakhstan Hails Completion of 'Historic' World Trade Organization Accession Talks
Kazakhstan's president on Monday hailed the "new horizons" opening up to his country after the former Soviet state completed nearly two decades of talks on joining the World Trade Organization.
