Word: oblast
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...backers in the NATO organization. Moreover, the majority of Poles and Czechs oppose the plan, which would needlessly put them at risk of armed conflict with Russia. Last year, President Medvedev announced that Russia would be relocating several SS-26 “Iskander” missiles to Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia’s small exclave of territory on the Baltic coast that borders NATO members Poland and Lithuania. While these plans have been temporarily put on hold, the Russian threat should be taken seriously, not needlessly provoked...
...foreign companies now forging ahead, nearly all have joined forces with solid local firms with existing factories or other hard assets. And nearly all have chosen corners of Russia where the investment climate seems better protected from the political storms that buffet the country at large. Leningrad Oblast, the province surrounding St. Petersburg, is a favorite. In the town of Tosno, 30 miles south of Russia's second city, Caterpillar has just completed its biggest investment in 25 years in Russia--a $50 million factory to make component parts for its European assembly plants and also put together tractors...