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BELARUS BRISTLES AT KAZAKHSTAN'S OFFER TO HOST UKRAINE TALKS
MINSK, Belarus AP -- Belarus on Friday mocked Kazakhstan's suggestion that it could serve as a new venue for Ukraine peace talks previously hosted by Minsk... READ MORE›
BUS FIRE KILLS 52 UZBEKS IN KAZAKHSTAN
Only five people managed to escape, the Kazakh emergencies department said in a statement... READ MORE›
A VISA-FREE ZONE WELCOMES YOUR WALLET. BUT MAYBE NOT YOUR BEARD.
Its unusually easy to enter a special economic development zone between China and Kazakhstan, unless your garb suggests you have Islamist leanings... READ MORE›
BNY MELLON FREEZES $22.6 BILLION IN KAZAKH OIL FUND ASSETS
Kazakhstan denies the allegations, but Anatolie and Gabriel Stati and two of their companies... READ MORE›
KAZAKHSTAN MAKES ITS WAY IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD
Kazakhstan was never one to settle for being an accepted member of the liberal world order... READ MORE›
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25 YEARS LATER: 7 SHOCKWAVES FROM BREAKUP OF SOVIET UNION
The Soviet Union broke up without a civil war, thank God, says Yevgeny Roizman, 54, a historian and mayor of Yekaterinburg, Russia's third-largest city, which borders Siberia... READ MORE›
WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE MISS THE SOVIET UNION?
Russia will mark the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Union's dissolution at the end of the year... READ MORE›
PUTIN BACKS WW2 MYTH IN NEW RUSSIAN FILM
State television showed Russian President Vladimir Putin watching the film last week, alongside Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, in the Central Asian leader's capital Astana... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC BATTALIONS STOCKED WITH CHECHENS AID UKRAINE IN WAR WITH REBELS
In Ukraine, the Dzhokhar Dudayev and Sheikh Mansur units are mostly Chechen, but they include Muslims from other former Soviet areas, such as Uzbeks and Balkars... READ MORE›
WHAT DO YOU GIVE THE AUTOCRAT WHO HAS EVERYTHING HIS NAME ON THE CAPITAL CITY
Kazakhstan's parliament has unanimously voted to rename its capital, Astana, for autocratic President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has led the country since 1989... READ MORE›
IN 1983 WAR SCARE, SOVIET LEADERSHIP FEARED NUCLEAR SURPRISE ATTACK BY U.S.
In 1983 we may have inadvertently placed our relations with the Soviet Union on a hair trigger the review concluded... READ MORE›
PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA BEEFING UP NUCLEAR ARSENAL, NATO DENOUNCES 'SABER-RATTLING'
Putin made his comments a day after Russian officials denounced a U.S... READ MORE›
DRUGS MULE MICHAELLA MCCOLLUM RETURNS TO IBIZA AND THE SCENE OF THE CRIME
The move will make the SCO one of the biggest regional organizations, covering about half of the world's population... READ MORE›
TRUMP MAY WANT TO LEARN A THING OR TWO FROM KAZAKHSTAN'S DICTATOR
Kazakhstan leader Nursultan Nazarbayev has put together a state where there was none... READ MORE›
IRAN TROOPS TO JOIN SYRIA WAR, RUSSIA BOMBS GROUP TRAINED BY CIA
At the United Nations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference Moscow was targeting Islamic State... READ MORE›
NEWS ANALYSIS IN PUTINS SYRIA INTERVENTION FEAR OF A WEAK GOVERNMENT HAND
That belief is widely shared in Russia, and is one reason for Mr. Putin's genuine popularity at home... READ MORE›
'WE LAUNCH SYRIA AIR STRIKES IN ONE HOUR. STAY OUT OF THE WAY'
Vladimir putin orders airforce into action over syria in first russian war in middle east since end of soviet union... READ MORE›
CLOSE MILITARY ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE WEST AT COLD WAR LEVELS
Black Sea encounter On 7 September, the Canadian frigate Toronto was buzzed by a Russian aircraft in the Black Sea with the plane coming within 300 metres... READ MORE›
READ PUTIN'S U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPEECH
Russia believes in the huge potential of the United Nations, which should help us avoid a new global confrontation and engage in strategic cooperation... READ MORE›
'DEMOCRACY WAS HIJACKED. IT GOT A BAD NAME'
The town of Sokh, for example, is part of Uzbekistan, but fully surrounded by Kyrgyzstan, and its 20,000 population are almost entirely ethnic Tajiks... READ MORE›
VLADIMIR PUTIN VOWS THAT UNITED STATES 'WILL NEVER SUBJUGATE RUSSIA'
Before his speech on Tuesday, the Russian leader was shown a new military vehicle described as a cross between a car and an armoured personnel carrier... READ MORE›
PUTIN SAYS WEST IS PROVOKING RUSSIA INTO NEW COLD WAR AS SPIES DEPORTED
Photograph Tass Barcroft Vladimir Putin has suggested to a German interviewer that the west is provoking Russia into a new cold war... READ MORE›
CHINA KAZAKHSTAN JOIN HANDS TO BOLSTER COOPERATION
The two sides also agreed to connect China's advantages in both land and maritime transportation with Kazakhstan's need for access to maritime transportation... READ MORE›
RUSSIA COMPLAINS OVER 'GAY BAR' ON PRESIDENT'S PLOT IN FINLAND
The archipelago lies between Finland and Sweden, but one uninhabited property is owned by the Russian presidency, having once been owned by a German-Finnish couple... READ MORE›
'NAZI GOLD TRAIN' FOUND IN POLAND COULD BELONG TO RUSSIA AS COMPENSATION FOR WW2
Nazi 'gold train' Treasure could be claimed by Russia as compensation for Second World War... READ MORE›
WHY RUSSIA IS IN SYRIA
Russian President Vladimir Putin right and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad shake hands in Moscow's Kremlin on Dec... READ MORE›
SOVIET LEADER GORBACHEV SAYS A NEW UNION COULD RISE AGAIN
Gorbachev may well have a rose-tinted view of the Soviet Union, but many in Russia feel the same... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY LAUNCHES 'LENIN SELFIE' PROJECT
With so many statues scattering the country, Russian youth have been taking pictures of Lenin long before the Communist party launched the hashtag... READ MORE›
ZIMBABWE'S ROBERT MUGABE WINS CHINA'S NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
Previous winners include Fidel Castro, the retired Cuban leader, and Vladimir Putin, president of Russia... READ MORE›
US AND POLAND IN TALKS OVER WEAPONS DEPLOYMENT IN EASTERN EUROPE
An alliance summit in Wales last year agreed quick deployments of Nato forces in Poland and the Baltic states... READ MORE›
AFTER A PROMISE TO KEEP IN TOUCH OBAMA AND MODI GET A HOTLINE
It proved to be an important mechanism for the United States and the Soviet Union to clarify their intentions to each other during the Cold War... READ MORE›
CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER SHIRTFRONTS VLADIMIR PUTIN INSTEAD
But in three encounters with the Russian president in six days the Australian prime minister largely seems to have missed his chance... READ MORE›
BRITAIN'S RUSSOPHOBIC HAWKS SHOULD BE CAST BACK TO SWINGING 60S IF WE WANT NEW EAST-WEST DETENTE
It's worth pointing out that at this time it wasn't just left-wingers like Wilson who supported improved relations with the Soviet Union... READ MORE›
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE MOCKED FOR LOOKING 'LIKE BORAT'
Elys eacute e furious after photos posted of Fran ccedil ois Hollande in Kazakhstan in full traditional costume... READ MORE›
WORLD MOURNS DEATHS OF 224 PEOPLE KILLED IN RUSSIAN PLANE CRASH
Airport authorities said all 224 people aboard Metrojet Flight 7K9268 en route from the resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh were Russian, the Russian news agency RIA reports... READ MORE›