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Other panelists included Araz Azimov, a foreign affairs official from Azerbaijan; Ashton Carter, Ford Foundation professor of science and international affairs at the Kennedy School; and Tim Cejka, vice president of Exploration for Exxon Venture, which explores opportunities for exploiting new oil resources in the former Soviet Union...
...area, which includes the former Soviet republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, has a history of ethnic conflict...
While only a small number of people of African descent live in Moscow, there is a more significant minority whom the native Russians call derisively chernie liudi, or "black people." These "black people" come from the former Soviet republics in the Southern Caucasus: Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. A combination of warfare and economic disaster in these former republics since the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1991, along with the loosening of living restrictions in post-Soviet Moscow, have led to a large influx of Caucasians into Moscow. Moscow has not been very welcoming...
While only a small number of people of African descent live in Moscow, there is a more significant minority whom the native Russians call derisively chernie liudi, or "black people." These "black people" come from the former Soviet republics in the Southern Caucasus: Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. A combination of warfare and economic disaster in these former republics since the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1991, along with the loosening of living restrictions in post-Soviet Moscow, have led to a large influx of Caucasians into Moscow. Moscow has not been very welcoming...
...continues covert operations to trip up bin Laden operatives. His aides have recently been arrested in Britain and Germany. Three months ago, intelligence sources tell TIME, the CIA broke up a bin Laden ring that had been planning an attack on the U.S. embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan. Egyptian terrorists identified in the plot were deported to Cairo...