No surprise that those include visitors from China, the Gulf states and the former Soviet republics.
The military also hopes to boost the "contract force" with recruits from neighbouring former Soviet republics.
The alliance has already welcomed former Soviet republics such as Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
In contrast to other former Soviet republics, it has been largely free of inter-ethnic hostilities.
Russia has kept its military presence not just in Georgia but in other former Soviet republics.
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The Kremlin has been extending loans to former Soviet republics like Armenia and Belarus for Russian-made reactors.
In recent years, former Soviet republics have had some of the world's worst air traffic safety records.
The OSCE consists of the United States, Canada, all European countries and former Soviet republics in central Asia.
Unlike Uzbekistan, neither Tajikistan nor Kyrgyzstan, the two poorest former Soviet republics, has reliable access to oil or gas.
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Lately he has expanded his Chabad initiatives, once confined to Russia and other former Soviet republics, to the West.
The former Soviet republics of Ukraine and Georgia also want to move closer to that goal, an effort that has angered Russia.
Earlier, leaders of the former Soviet republics at their summit in St Petersburg approved the lifting of the UN sanctions on Iraq.
Among delegates are 50 environment ministers from Europe, North America and former Soviet republics, as well as non-governmental organisations like the World Bank.
His PT Primacomexindo is a major trading company not only in Russia but also in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
The Nabucco pipeline was supposed to bypass both Iran and Russia and increase instead gas exports from the former Soviet republics to Europe.
The current rise in food commodity prices, in part due to poor conditions in Russia and other former Soviet Republics, may further intensify this trend.
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The nations, all former Soviet republics, were Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan, which are on the Afghan border, and Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, which are close to Afghanistan.
Understandably, ethnic Germans in Kazakhstan and in other former Soviet republics have rushed to take up the German government's offer to return to their historic fatherland.
Even the most optimistic projections of government aid from Western nations fall woefully short of what would be required to resuscitate the economies of the former Soviet republics.
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The United States has a limited number of important security interests that can be secured best through sustained cooperation with the governments of the former Soviet republics.
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And as migrants from the traditionally Muslim former Soviet Republics come to Moscow to make up the numbers, they bring their culture, their traditions and their faith with them.
Over the past few years Russia has tried to push Azerbaijan to allow Russian military bases and to join the Commonwealth of Independent States, the confederation of former Soviet republics.
Similarly, the United States would be well advised to require in such new negotiations a demand that the former Soviet republics substantially increase their disclosure of vital economic and financial data.
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In addition to spending time across hospitals in the U.S., they and a small team of colleagues have provided insight to medical teams in Switzerland, former Soviet republics, Jordan, Ethiopia, and Japan.
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The argument with the former Soviet Republics is not about them wanting to join the EU but learning to pay market prices when they have been subsided by Russia for so long.
The former Soviet republics had very little, if any, decision-making role in taking on the bulk of this crushing debt burden or, for that matter, in the use made of the proceeds of Western borrowings.
"We know we have to do more to help developing nations, " said Clinton, who sees AIDS as a threat to global security, adding that he was particularly concerned about its spread in former Soviet republics.
More than fifty artists from twenty countries across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics are represented in the exhibition that is on view through Oct. 2 at the New Museum in lower Manhattan.
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Central Asian countries such as Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are former Soviet republics, Iran had its parliamentary democracy subverted by the West in the 1950s, and Saudi Arabian politics have been dominated by the international oil market.
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