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• Caucasus News Update – Azerbaijan: Baku Developing Satellite to Kick Off National Space Program (EurasiaNet)

  
  Global News Blog Headlines — Authority: 165
  Azerbaijan: Baku Developing Satellite to Kick Off National Space Program (EurasiaNet) BY SHAHIN ABBASOV First came oil. Now comes space. Flush with energy revenues, Officials in Baku are intent on launching Azerbaijan’s first satellite by 2011. EBRD to Invest $400 Million in Georgia in 2010 in Railway, Port ...
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• Kyrgyzstan: Water Management

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  Misha reflects on the problems of water management in Central Asia against the background of the news about glacial retreat in Kyrgyzstan.
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• Afghanistan: Empowering trading potential

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  Sanjar shares his idea of creating opprtunities for market linkages between small entrepreneurs, shopkeepers, sellers and businesses in Afghanistan via the use of mobile technologies.
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• Russia says powerful bomb caused Friday’s train derailment

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Moscow, Nov. 29 (ANI): As Russia is coming to terms with Friday’s train derailment that killed at least 26 people, including several top government officials, Moscow has confirmed that the event was a terrorist act caused by a powerful bomb.Among the dead were several senior Kremlin bureaucrats, including Boris ...
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• Police in Russia Issue Description of Train Blast Suspect

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  Russia’s Interior Minister has described one of the main suspects in an attack on a Moscow-St. Petersburg train that killed at least 26 people as “over 40, stocky and ginger-haired.” Russia’s federal security chief earlier said that an explosive device equivalent to 7kg of TNT caused Friday evening’s deadly ...
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• WTF?! - ‘Hayastanci: Anti-Russia’

  
  Unzipped — Authority: 419
  After reading this IWPR report and glancing at this so called group’s so called website, my only reaction was - WTF?! They look like a group of hackers playing with others’ nerves, hoping for publicity and having fun. Mentally disturbed people with sick agenda. A burst of anti-Russian [ Unzipped : not only ...
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• Uzbekistan: Tashkent, a green city. Or not?

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  Old trees are cut down in the center of Tashkent – the shocking news was spread in the city within a day. Photo by goricvet Planetrees, or platanus, planted at the end of the 19th century, were cut down in the public garden named after Amir Temur (Tamerlane) in Tashkent last week. As officials say , the ...
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• Georgias President Saakashvili in photos by Thomas Dworzak

  
  Kaukasus — Authority: 135
  
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• PUBLICATION: Turkey, Russia and the Caucasus: Common and Diverging Interests (chathamhouse.org.uk)

  
  GEORGIA & SOUTH CAUCASUS — Authority: 139
  Briefing PaperGareth Winrow, November 2009Download Paper hereAnkaras rapprochement with Moscow has come under question after the August 2008 Russo-Georgian conflict. Turkish officials had believed that they shared common interests in preserving the territorial integrity of states in the Caucasus.The effectiveness of ...
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• PHOTOGRAPHY: Edward Burtynskys Oil at the Corcoran, part two

  
  GEORGIA & SOUTH CAUCASUS — Authority: 139
  Edward Burtynskys photographs about our reliance on oil (on view now at the Corcoran) include a kind of trap. The pictures are beautiful. A Burtynsky picture of the landscape near extraction facility outside Fort McMurray, Alberta, looks like a classic Western landscape, complete with big sky, a reflection of a ...
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• New Military Doctrine to Allow Preemptive Nuclear Strike

  
  The Other Russia — Authority: 496
  Russia may carry out a preemptive nuclear strike in a situation critical to its national security, according to a revamped version of Russia’s military doctrine that will be published by the end of the year. In an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta on November 20, Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said ...
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• Kazkahstan: Astana Cycling Team Is Back to Life

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  KZBlogs post is about some good news about the cycling team Astana after losing two premier cyclists and a long period of doubt over funding.
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• Kyrgyzstan: Prices for utilies are skyrocketing

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  Aravanski reports that the Kyrgyz government sharply increased the prices for electricity and heating, making those barely affordable by most citizens.
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• Turkmenistan: Influenzastan

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  Has Turkmenistan come down with a bad case of the swine flu? Annasoltan investigates that in a series of post on Turkmen healthcare.
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• Uzbekistan: Presidential daughters self-promotion

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  Musafirbek writes about a charity gala-concert, held with the support of UNICEF, attended not only by singer Cesaria Evora and soccer player Samuel Eto’o, but also by some bloggers, who were hired by an American PR firm to cover the event.
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• Afghanistan: US opens new prison

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  Nick Fielding reports that the US military unveiled a new $60 million prison at Bagram airbase, north of the Afghanistan capital Kabul, saying it would provide detainees with better conditions and also promote transparency.
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• Afghanistan: Counting the cost of war

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  Nick Fielding reviews “The Cost of War: Afghan Experiences of Conflict 1978-2009″, a report by nine NGOs working in Afghanistan analyzing 30 years of war and a devastating impact they had.
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• Mongolia: Edurelief project “Laptops for Teachers”

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  Radigan Neuhalfen writes about new program “Laptops for Teachers”, aimed at promotion of education in Mongolia.
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• Afghanistan: UK tends to quit

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  Dafydd talks about the slump of the Afghan campaigns popularity among the British public, media and officials - ahead of upcoming elections in the United Kingdom.
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• Uzbekistan: Authorities Free Sanjar Umarov

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 720
  Noah Tucker reports that Sanjar Umarov, one of the most famous political prisoner in Uzbekistan, earlier charged with tax evasion and embezzlement after founding an opposition party in 2005, has been released from prison.
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