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Russia’s Multinational Military Exercise Last Week Was A Dry Run For Bigger War Games

Published September 5, 2018 in NPR Leave a comment

“We see how geopolitical risks are increasing, and that’s why we’re uniting to repel any threat from any direction,” said Russian Lt. Gen. Alexander Lapin.

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Partying from Dushanbe to Grozny

Published on October 8, 2012May 21, 2016 Leave a comment

When Tajik President Emomali Rahmon turned 60, Vladimir Putin gave him a sniper rifle and promised to keep Russian troops stationed in Tajikistan until his 90th birthday.

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Iran Wins Neighbors’ Pledge Not to Help U.S. Attack

Published October 16, 2007 in Bloomberg Leave a comment

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad played up a regional summit to fete Vladimir Putin as a friend of the Islamic Republic.

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Iran Seeks to Undermine U.S. Energy Plan for Europe

Published June 7, 2007 in Bloomberg Leave a comment

Iran plans to import more oil and gas from Central Asia as it seeks to undermine a U.S.-backed project to build pipelines from the Caspian Sea to Europe.

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Women Lead The Way Against Belarus’ Patriarch, Says Svetlana Tikhanovskaya

“Our women understood they don’t have to stay in their kitchens and can go and fight for their rights beside  — and even in front of their men,” said Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.

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About Lucian

Based in Berlin and Moscow, I’ve reported from the former Soviet empire since 1996. I started working as National Public Radio’s Moscow correspondent in December 2016. Before that I contributed to Reuters, Slate, Bloomberg and The Moscow Times, among others.

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