Alexander Golts, a Russian military analyst, says that this is the first time since the cold war that Russia has declared its intention to create a military threat to the West. Whether it can be backed by real military capabilities is another question. The timing of this threat looks particularly odd: even Soviet hawks used to wait for six months after an American election to make big statements of military strategy.
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Nabucco, the gas pipeline project that hopes to bypass Russia and reduce European dependence on Gazprom supplies, received a positive nod from Turkmenistan during a meeting between President Berdymuhamedov and Ms. Maria Reich-Rohrwig (phonetically spelled), Austrian envoy at large for Nabucco.
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Russia Probes Nuclear Submarine Accident
Russia began an investigation into an accident on a nuclear submarine during trials in the Pacific Ocean that killed 20 people, the deadliest incident since the sinking of the Kursk submarine eight years ago.
Vietnam, where crumbling infrastructure has been criticized for impeding economic development, is seeking funds to build nearly 5,900 km of expressways in the next decade, the government said Thursday.
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