Moscow accused Georgia yesterday of being the “instigator of all recent provocations” in the breakaway region of Abkhazia, days before President Mikheil Saakashvili is due to meet his new Russian counterpart for the first time.
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Opposition parties will picket the first session of parliament in an avowed effort to stop it from convening, but as dissent within their ranks grows, it is hard to see how they will meet with success.
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Azerbaijan expects to produce 20 percent more oil in 2008 compared with last year, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said at the Caspian Oil and Gas Conference in Baku this week.
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