Post-Soviet Armenia has embraced trade, made legal reforms, privatized state-owned enterprises and slashed inflation to 2.9% since joining the World Trade Organization in 2003.

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The Kremlin has been extending loans to former Soviet republics like Armenia and Belarus for Russian-made reactors.

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It includes big problematic cases such as Turkey and Ukraine and even in another optimistic couple of decades four other ex-Soviet republics, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia and Azerbaijan (the last, maybe, one day, on Turkey's coat-tails).

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After the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991, Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a brutal war in which both sides suffered enormously, with up to 30, 000 people killed and a million forced to flee their homes.

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The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan erupted as the Soviet Union collapsed and at least 30, 000 people were killed by the time the truce was declared in 1994.

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Some Azeris also cry double standards: members of Armenian terrorist organisations who committed crimes in the Soviet era are treated as national heroes in Armenia now, they say.

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Among the club's members are the United States, Russia, Turkey, three ex-Soviet republics in the Caucasus (Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia) and all the other countries of Europe.

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The presidents of five former Soviet states Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Armenia and Belarus together with Russia, met in Bishkek, the capital of Kirgizstan, this week to discuss closer military and political integration.

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Shortly after KGB agents confiscated his novel "Life and Fate" in 1961, Soviet writer Vasily Grossman received a curious assignment: to travel to Armenia and translate a war novel.

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