Soviet flags fly as Kyrgyz Pioneers unite
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The Young Pioneers, a Soviet youth organization, is experiencing an unlikely revival in Kyrgyzstan, a corner of the old Soviet Union.
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In a rare nod to religion,  communist North Korea has welcomed 500 Buddhist monks and  followers from the South to a temple dating from the 11th  century when Kaesong was capital of a unified peninsula.
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Voters in Moldova's breakaway Trans-Dniester region back a plan to unite with Russia, officials say.
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Text of report by Kyrgyz AKIpress news agency website  Bishkek, 14 December: President Kurmanbek Bakiyev will answer Kyrgyz citizens' questions in a live phone-in programme of the [first] channel of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.
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Kyrgyz voters go the polls on Sunday in a snap parliamentary election expected to hand President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's party an overwhelming victory though it has been criticized as undemocratic by the opposition.
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by our Internet desk, 6 September 2004. Flags are flying at half-mast in Russia as the nation mourns last Friday&#39;s massacre at a school in Beslan.
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MOSCOW - Rivals for lunar conquest four decades ago, Russia hopes to join the U.S.
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MOSCOW -- If you can judge a book by its cover, then the &quot;History of Russia and the World in the 20th Century&quot; tells students that the Soviet past was all pride and glory: Three of four cover photos invoke Soviet propaganda.
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Kyrgyz investigators have questioned eight U.S. servicemen over the fatal shooting of a Kyrgyz civilian at the U.S. air base in this ex-Soviet Central Asian nation, police Thursday.
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RBC, 18.10.2004, Moscow 12:01:27.Russia has officially joined the Central Asian Cooperation Organization. A corresponding document was signed at a summit of the organization held in Dushanbe.
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Parliament convenes in Kyrgyzstan, as rows continue over the results of Sunday's election.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Flags flew at half-mast across  Russia on Monday at the start of national mourning for 338  people killed when Chechen rebels seized a school, while  questions mounted over President Vladimir Putin's policies.
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Kyrgyz voters went to the polls on Sunday in a snap parliamentary election expected to hand President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's party an overwhelming victory though it has been criticized as undemocratic by the opposition.
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Authorities in Uzbekistan have granted amnesties to two prominent rights activists in what could be part of government efforts to mend frosty ties with the West.
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CHOLPON ATA, Kyrgyzstan  - Russia's electricity monopoly agreed Friday to help build two power stations in Kyrgyzstan to allow the central Asian country to increase electricity exports.
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In the 1960s, a group of the city's Hungarian residents joined forces to dedicate a monument to those from their country who had fought and died in a 1956 revolt against Soviet control.
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Presidents Kuchma of Ukraine, Putin of Russia, Lukashenko of Belarus and Aliyev of Azerbaijan participated in the ceremony.