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		<title>Rasmussen: A working group on Afghanistan set up under the NATO-Russia Council</title>
		<link>http://en.afghanistan.ru/doc/174.html</link>
		<description>A working group on Afghanistan may be set up under the NATO-Russia Council. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen stated ...</description>
		<pubDate>2 Mar 2010 19:27:15 +0400</pubDate>	</item>
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		<title>Russia criticizes NATO for its unwillingness to fight drug trafficking</title>
		<link>http://en.afghanistan.ru/doc/173.html</link>
		<description>The head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service, Victor Ivanov, has recently said that the policy pursued by NATO in Afghanistan doesn’t help ...</description>
		<pubDate>28 Feb 2010 19:25:49 +0400</pubDate>	</item>
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		<title>Andrei Avetisyan: Russia ready to reconstruct the Salang Tunnel</title>
		<link>http://en.afghanistan.ru/doc/172.html</link>
		<description>The Russian Federation is ready to reconstruct the Salang Tunnel and other infrastructure facilities of Afghanistan. </description>
		<pubDate>18 Feb 2010 09:33:42 +0400</pubDate>	</item>
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		<title>Dmitri Rogozin: Russia drafts an agreement with NATO on military cargo transport</title>
		<link>http://en.afghanistan.ru/doc/171.html</link>
		<description>On the eve, Russia’s ambassador to NATO Dmitri Rogozin said that an agreement between the Russian Federation and NATO had been drafting on the use of Russian military transport planes in Afghanistan on commercial basis</description>
		<pubDate>17 Feb 2010 09:31:56 +0400</pubDate>	</item>
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		<title>New western strategy guarantees integration of Taliban with Afghanistan’s democratic system</title>
		<link>http://en.afghanistan.ru/doc/169.html</link>
		<description>Afghanistan remains to be a key state in the region owing to its geographical location and geopolitical reasons. The participation of representatives from 60 countries and dozens of international organizations at the international conference on Afghanistan in London witnessed</description>
		<pubDate>8 Feb 2010 20:56:14 +0400</pubDate>	</item>
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		<title>SCO and Afghan officials hold consultations in Moscow</title>
		<link>http://en.afghanistan.ru/doc/165.html</link>
		<description>On the 25th of January, regional consultations on Afghanistan under the aegis of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization were held in Moscow</description>
		<pubDate>28 Jan 2010 16:24:43 +0400</pubDate>	</item>
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		<title>Russia ready to reconstruct infrastructure in Afghanistan </title>
		<link>http://en.afghanistan.ru/doc/164.html</link>
		<description>The Russian Federation is ready to be involved in the reconstruction of Afghanistan, especially 142 facilities built by the Soviet Union in the country</description>
		<pubDate>27 Jan 2010 16:23:04 +0400</pubDate>	</item>
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		<title>Veterans oppose legitimizing the new NATO plans at the London Conference</title>
		<link>http://en.afghanistan.ru/doc/166.html</link>
		<description>The London Conference should not become another forum that legitimizes the new NATO plans on stabilizing the situation in Eurasia</description>
		<pubDate>26 Jan 2010 16:26:58 +0400</pubDate>	</item>
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		<title>Russian and Afghan diplomats discuss the Afghan issue in Moscow</title>
		<link>http://en.afghanistan.ru/doc/167.html</link>
		<description>The Deputy Russian Foreign Minister, Alexei Borodavkin met with the Deputy Afghan Foreign Minister handling political issues</description>
		<pubDate>25 Jan 2010 16:30:19 +0400</pubDate>	</item>
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		<title>William Burns dismisses reports that transit of cargo through has been blocked</title>
		<link>http://en.afghanistan.ru/doc/162.html</link>
		<description>U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns who arrives in Moscow on Thursday for talks has dismissed reports </description>
		<pubDate>14 Jan 2010 21:38:19 +0400</pubDate>	</item>
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		<title>Conference in London focuses on granting amnesty to Taliban leaders</title>
		<link>http://en.afghanistan.ru/doc/163.html</link>
		<description>The conference on Afghanistan in London may focus on talks with the leaders of the Taliban movement</description>
		<pubDate>13 Jan 2010 21:39:45 +0400</pubDate>	</item>
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		<title>Victor Korgun says deployment of Soviet forces in Afghanistan was a political mistake</title>
		<link>http://en.afghanistan.ru/doc/161.html</link>
		<description>The head of the Afghan department of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences</description>
		<pubDate>27 Dec 2009 21:36:46 +0400</pubDate>	</item>
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		<title>Moscow and Kabul establish close contacts in 2009</title>
		<link>http://en.afghanistan.ru/doc/159.html</link>
		<description>Two senior Afghan officials have visited Moscow in the past months. Late November, the speaker of the Upper House of the Afghan Parliament Sibghatullah Mojaddadi arrived in Moscow soon after the announcement of the victory of Hamid Karzai in the presidential election. </description>
		<pubDate>11 Dec 2009 21:12:16 +0400</pubDate>	</item>
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		<title>Russian Foreign Ministry says expansion of military presence improves Afghan army’s combat capability</title>
		<link>http://en.afghanistan.ru/doc/157.html</link>
		<description>An increase in the number of foreign troops in Afghanistan may produce real effect only if it is carried out together with effective measures in forming the combat-capable military structures in the country. </description>
		<pubDate>12 Nov 2009 19:39:49 +0400</pubDate>	</item>
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		<title>GRU: Hamid Karzai’s win stabilizes the situation in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://en.afghanistan.ru/doc/156.html</link>
		<description>Russia believes that retaining Hamid Karzai’s rule in Afghanistan is a stabilizing element in the development of the country’s situation</description>
		<pubDate>6 Nov 2009 13:35:36 +0400</pubDate>	</item>
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