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Armenia and Israel Throw Down a Gage to Iran and Turkey
http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=606
Appearance of the Armenian liner in the central Israeli airport has political implications, rather than economic ones. In spite of the fact that the local mass media did not notice this event at all, it is a result of the gradual and soft-pedal thaw in relations between Armenia and the Jewish State…
Apparently, according to Kommersant, “Gazprom confirmed its proposal to restore the Central Asia-Center pipeline system in exchange for the right to extract natural gas at Uzbekistan’s three largest deposits of Ugra, Kuanysh and a group of Akchalaksky deposits.” … The story at http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?idr=33&id=642676 says Karimov listened to Gazprom’s amended proposals to tap the country’s largest deposits but refused the offer, declaring that Uzbekistan is able to modernize its gas pipelines on its own.