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...proposal should give momentum to talks later this month in New Delhi between India's and Pakistan's Prime Ministers. - By Tim McGirk Fallout Over Funds LATVIA Prime Minister Indulis Emsis' coalition government resigned after legislators rejected his proposed 2005 budget. His coalition - the Baltic state's 10th post-Soviet government - held just 47 seats in the 100-member parliament. Counting In Kosovo SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO All 660,000 votes cast in Kosovo's legislative elections will be recounted. Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, acting on complaints by political parties, found inaccuracies in the count...
...INDICATORS Slick Moves In the largest ever post-Soviet privatization, U.S. oil major ConocoPhillips acquired Moscow 's 7.6% stake in Lukoil for almost $2 billion. The two firms plan to seek oil in Iraq 's West Qurna field...
...There seems to be a deterioration of human rights in the former Soviet Union,” the staff member said, pointing to the prominent role of the Federal Security Service (FSB)—the post-Soviet successor to the Committee for State Security (KGB). “Many people are intimidated and fearful...
...This time around, Putin’s management worked like a charm. The pro-Kremlin party United Russia—which has a vaguely nationalistic platform based around support for the president—won the largest share of the vote of any electoral faction in the history of post-Soviet parliamentary politics, 37.5 percent...
This time around, Putin’s management worked like a charm. The pro-Kremlin party United Russia—which has a vaguely nationalistic platform based around support for the president—won the largest share of the vote of any electoral faction in the history of post-Soviet parliamentary politics, 37.5 percent. With the other solidly pro-Putin deputies added in, the ex-KGB officer has enough votes in Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, to alter the Russian Constitution, a scary prospect in a country still shaking off centuries of despotic...