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THE KHARKIV AGREEMENTS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE
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29 Apr 2010
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IRINA KOBRINSKAYA, LEONID VARDOMSKY, DMYTRO BOYARCHUK
Moscow - Kyiv
"The main question for the next few years is whether the Kharkiv agreements will become a tool of stabilization, development and rapprochement of Ukraine and Russia", Irina Kobrinskaya.
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ISLOM KARIMOV PAID A VISIT TO MOSCOW. WHAT NEXT?
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22 Apr 2010
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RAFIK SAIFULIN
Political analyst, Tashkent
Tashkent said again that Uzbekistan-Russia relations are strategic, and that Russia plays a key role in ensuring global and especially regional security and stability in Central Asia.
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DEVELOPING PROFESSIONAL NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS: THE FINAL “KONTRAKTNIKI” EXPERIMENT?
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13 Apr 2010
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ROGER N MCDERMOTT
Senior Fellow in Eurasian Military Studies, Jamestown Foundation, Washington DC and an Honorary Senior Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, University Kent, Canterbury (UK)
Recent statements by Russian Defense Minister, Anatoliy Serdyukov, indicate that the experiment with contract personnel in the armed forces has finally failed. Serdyukov outlined some of the reasons for these failings, ranging from low pay to how they were recruited and noted the problem of retention.
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“THE REVOLUTION IN KYRGYZSTAN WAS BOTH UNEXPECTED AND PREDICTABLE”
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09 Apr 2010
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PETER RUTLAND
Professor at Wesleyan University and an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University
The bloody and chaotic overthrow of the Bakiev regime is not good news for anybody. For Western liberals, it merely highlights the sorry conditions in Kyrgyzstan, the one country in Central Asia that had tried to follow Western advice about the benefits of democratization, market reform and free trade.
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