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<title>EU Politics Today: EU Black Sea Region News</title>
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<title>Asian alliance snubs Russian plea</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185527932</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 01:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  tension by a naval build-up in the Black Sea and said talk of punishing Russia for  ...  Abkhazia, as independent states. France, the current European Union president, has called a meeting of EU heads of government on Monday to discuss  ...
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<title>Caught between two worlds, Turkey steps up Caucasus diplomacy</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185527240</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 01:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  want to antagonize. Contrary to the strong European and US reaction against a Russian decision  ...  request to send AWACS planes to the Black Sea region as a measure against Russia during  ...  country currently holds the EU&apos;s rotating presidency, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and  ...
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<title>NEWS ANALYSIS Turkey in tight spot between Russia, NATO</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185527237</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 01:28 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  with a NATO naval build-up in the Black Sea following a brief war between Russia and  ...  US ally which aspires to join the European Union, Turkey is the passage way to  ...
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<title>Russia Under Pressure, Has Little World Support</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185523649</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 00:56 GMT</pubDate>
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...  over this month&apos;s attacks in Georgia. The EU is considering possible sanctions against Moscow, and  ...  of American warships delivering aid to the Black Sea port of Batumi. Moscow has accused NATO  ...
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<title>Vladimir Putin: US orchestrated Georgia conflict, suggests motive was to affect US election</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185522732</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 00:55 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  his interview with CNN in Sochi, Russia&apos;s Black Sea resort on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. Russian  ...  its Asian allies. France, meanwhile, said the European Union is considering sanctions against Russia for  ...  short of its withdrawal commitments under an EU cease-fire deal. The EU is &quot;trying to  ...
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<title>Russia and West issue sanctions threats</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185522350</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 00:54 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Paris, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said European Union leaders are considering sanctions against Russia  ...  energy pipelines and has ports on the Black Sea. One option Washington is considering is nixing  ...
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<title>Russia adds to tensions with nuclear missile test</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185521220</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 00:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  with the West, as France said the European Union could impose sanctions on Moscow over  ...  the number of Nato ships in the Black Sea and said it was taking measures of  ...  forces to the Abkhaz port of Sukhumi. EU states are considering imposing sanctions on Russia  ...
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<title>Georgian parliament urges cutting ties with Moscow</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185521019</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 00:33 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  failing to offer support and France saying EU leaders were considering sanctions. Moscow accused the  ...  defied pressure from the United States and European powers to pull out of Georgia and  ...  responded by sending the flagship of its Black Sea fleet, the guided-missile cruiser Moskva, to the  ...
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<title>Georgia and the stakes for Ukraine by VICTOR YUSHCHENKO*</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185520949</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 00:33 GMT</pubDate>
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...  emanating from the fact that the Russian Black Sea fleet is based on our territory. The  ...  the conflict were in harmony with the European Union settlement plan. We highly praise the  ...  efforts of the United States and the EU presidency, led by the French, to achieve  ...
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<title>Belligerent bluster</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185518533</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 23:57 GMT</pubDate>
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...  two of the six states along the Black Sea and the latest members of Nato. The  ...  Two rival oil and gas pipelines, the EU-backed Nabucco pipeline and the South Stream project  ...
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<title>Russia may cut off oil flow to the West</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185515511</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 23:33 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  days, in response to the threat of EU sanctions and Nato naval actions in the Black Sea. Any such move would be a dramatic  ...  even $200 a barrel. With US and European credit spreads already trading at levels of  ...
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<title>Vladimir Putin has said he suspects one of the US presidential candidates provoked the conflict in Georgia to help their election chances.</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185514766</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 23:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  failing to offer support and France saying EU leaders were considering sanctions. The Kremlin accused  ...  tension by a naval build-up in the Black Sea, and said talk of punishing Russia was  ...
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<title>Putin: &apos;US provoked Georgia war&apos;</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185514761</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 23:31 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  failing to offer support and France saying EU leaders were considering sanctions. The Kremlin accused  ...  tension by a naval build-up in the Black Sea, and said talk of punishing Russia was  ...
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<title>Putin: US orchestrated conflict in Georgia</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185513504</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 23:09 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  an interview with CNN in Sochi, Russia&apos;s Black Sea resort on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. Putin  ...  its Asian allies. France, meanwhile, said the European Union is considering sanctions against Russia for  ...  short of its withdrawal commitments under an EU cease-fire deal. The EU is &quot;trying to  ...
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<title>Russian assault unites Georgia behind Saakashvili</title>
<link>http://eupolitics.einnews.com/news.php?wid=185510502</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 22:35 GMT</pubDate>
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...  trade by establishing positions just outside the Black Sea port of Poti, setting up outposts near  ...  his efforts to join NATO and the European Union. Those plans tapped into deep Russian  ...
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