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10/3/2023 4:41:18 PM
Armenian lawmakers approved a key step towards joining the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday, a move that is set to escalate tensions with the ex-Soviet country's traditional ally Moscow.
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10/3/2023 1:17:53 PM
Armenian lawmakers are scheduled to vote Wednesday on whether to join the International Criminal Court, a parliament spokeswoman told AFP, a move that would anger the ex-Soviet Caucasus country's historic ally, Moscow.
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7/20/2023 3:21:32 PM
Belarus said Thursday that instructors from mercenary group Wagner have begun training the ex-Soviet country's special forces, nearly a month after an aborted rebellion in Russia.
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2/23/2023 2:19:52 PM
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit in the east of mountainous ex-Soviet Tajikistan on Thursday without producing victims or damage, officials said.
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10/31/2022 5:28:00 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan on Monday to try to broker a settlement to a longstanding conflict between the two ex-Soviet neighbors.
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10/16/2022 2:58:33 PM
Russia said two gunmen from an ex-Soviet state on Saturday attacked a military training ground killing 11 people who had volunteered to fight in Ukraine and wounding 15 others.
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9/20/2022 1:37:43 PM
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan on Monday in a bid to ease tensions and maintain a fragile ceasefire between the ex-Soviet countries and rivals following the largest outbreak of hostilities in more than two years.
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8/31/2022 2:20:59 PM
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union who played a major role in ending the Cold War, died in Moscow on Tuesday aged 91.
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4/26/2022 8:31:33 PM
Kyiv on Tuesday demolished a monument symbolising historic ties between ex-Soviet Ukraine and Russia, an AFP correspondent reported, more than two months after Moscow's troops invaded their pro-democratic neighbour.
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1/18/2022 9:49:58 PM
Kazakhstan's influential former leader released a short video on Tuesday in which he talked about the violent unrest that engulfed the ex-Soviet nation earlier this month and rejected reports alleging that he fled the country amid tensions with the current president.
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11/26/2021 3:41:18 PM
Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday promised food and warm clothing to migrants who opt to stay at the border between the ex-Soviet nation and Poland and won't return to their homeland.
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11/25/2021 6:47:20 PM
Two Iraqi planes took off Thursday night for Belarus in order to repatriate Iraqis stuck on the ex-Soviet state's border with Poland, the transport ministry said.
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11/22/2021 9:06:12 PM
An Armenian soldier was killed by Azerbaijani shelling on Monday amid simmering tensions on the border between the two ex-Soviet neighbors.
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7/5/2021 11:54:13 AM
Tajikistan's national security committee said that 1,037 Afghan government troops had fled into the ex-Soviet country "in order to save their lives" after clashes with the Taliban during the night
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5/25/2021 12:47:57 PM
The Kremlin said Tuesday it regrets Europe's plans to cut air links with ex-Soviet Belarus and avoid its airspace after the diversion of a Ryanair flight carrying an opposition activist
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4/30/2021 4:28:10 PM
A cease-fire on the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan largely held Friday following a day of intense fighting between the two ex-Soviet Central Asian neighbors that killed about 40 people and wounded about 175
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3/1/2021 4:56:01 PM
A Ukrainian soldier was killed in clashes with Russian-backed separatists in the war-torn east on Monday, as European Council chief Charles Michel was set to arrive in the ex-Soviet country
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12/19/2020 1:24:28 PM
More than 5,000 people including civilians were killed in Armenia and Azerbaijan when clashes erupted between the ex-Soviet enemies in late September over the breakaway region of Nagorno Karabakh
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11/28/2020 6:18:00 PM
The ex-Soviet rivals signed a Moscow-brokered peace deal on November 9, ending weeks of heavy fighting and documenting that Armenia will surrender to Baku several territories
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11/1/2020 8:34:18 PM
The ex-Soviet nation's opposition rejected the results of Saturday's vote, which showed Georgian Dream with a narrow lead in the tightly contested election
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