Senior officials in Turkmenistan say the energy-rich Central Asian nation plans to sign a natural gas sales agreement with Afghanistan, Pakistan and India this month. ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — Senior officials in Turkmenistan say the energy-rich Central Asian nation plans to sign a natural gas sales agreement with Afghanistan, Pakistan and India this month. The...

The president of Kyrgyzstan says keeping the U.S. air base in his country beyond June 2014 depends on how developments in Afghanistan affect regional stability as well as increases in rental payments. BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — The president of Kyrgyzstan says keeping the U.S. air base in his country beyond June 2014 depends on how developments in Afghanistan affect...

... and cigarette smoke float across a screen showing a dancing Pakistani woman, who evokes yowls of excitement from the hundreds of Afghan men passing their time in one of the capital's rundown cinemas. KABUL, Afghanistan — Clouds of hashish and cigarette smoke float across a screen showing a dancing Pakistani woman, who evokes yowls of excitement from the hundreds of Afghan men passing their time in one of the capital's rundown cinemas. Once a treasured...

... NATO summit that began in Chicago on Sunday. Russia did not send any top government official to the summit, which is apparently how the Kremlin tried to show its dissatisfaction over the U.S. plan to deploy missile defense installations in Europe. But Afghanistan was a much more important issue at the NATO summit. NATO member countries are mainly focused on how to withdraw their troops, and that means the Russian leadership should be concerned about what will happen after NATO troops are gone. Few...

... natural gas to Pakistan and India, as it tries to free itself from reliance on gas exports to Russia. The deals offer major economic benefits to all three countries but depend on building and defending a U.S.-backed pipeline across chronically unstable Afghanistan. The route, particularly the 735-kilometer leg through the Afghan provinces of Herat and Kandahar, will need billions of dollars in funding. It presents significant security problems as the Western NATO alliance plans to hand control of Afghanistan...

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... reported Monday, citing a high-placed Foreign Ministry source. Moscow will send a high-ranking official to the NATO conference in Chicago, Kommersant reported Monday, citing a high-placed Foreign Ministry source. Zamir Kabulov, the presidential envoy to Afghanistan who also heads a Foreign Ministry department, will most likely be Russia's pick for the conference, the source said, though the information has not been officially confirmed. An ongoing spat over missile defense and other questions have cast...

... system tested jointly with Russia also performed well, it says. Critics have dismissed the missile shield as an expensive "make-work project" designed to provide the 63-year-old alliance with a raison d'etre after it winds down its presence in Afghanistan. Rasmussen said leaders would discuss ending the alliance's combat operations in Afghanistan by the end of 2014, while remaining committed to the training mission after that. He said he was confident that the international community —...

... alliance would continue to seek an agreement after the May 20-21 summit. “We will continue our dialogue with Russia … after the Chicago meeting,” he said in London, Reuters reported. Russia also plays a prominent role in NATO’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, which tops the summit’s agenda because the alliance plans to transport the bulk of its military equipment via Russian rail and airspace. President-elect Vladimir Putin has said he will not attend the Chicago event, but Rasmussen has invited...

... Russia and will not threaten its strategic stability, North Atlantic Treaty Organization leaders said in a statement issued at a conference in Chicago. Leaders of the 28-country alliance met for two days to discuss issues including the ongoing war in Afghanistan and a Europe-based missile defense shield NATO says is designed to protect member nations from potential attacks by countries such as Iran. Russia has complained that the missile system could in the future pose a threat to its strategic nuclear...

... complete puzzle to me. I know that he hosted a TV show, but I don't know what he has done for cinema," said film director Andrei Kavun, whose credits include the 2010 blockbuster "Kandagar," about Russian pilots who fled Taliban captivity in Afghanistan. He was echoed by director Pavel Bardin, best known for "Russia 88," a 2009 mockumentary about the rise of the neo-Nazi movement in the country. "State personnel decisions are showing once more that cinema is not an art but...

... “will be pushed toward greater loyalty to Moscow.” He was referring to worries in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan that the regimes there could fall under a wave of radical Islamists pouring over their borders after U.S.-led coalition forces leave Afghanistan by 2014. Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, which both host Russian military bases, also indicated that they might join the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.   Russian media earlier reported that Putin — who indicated in one...

... message from Putin that set out Russia’s position on a number of foreign policy and bilateral relations. Medvedev also spoke generally about the G8 summit, saying that besides discussions on nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea, support of Afghanistan’s economy and the conflict in Syria, the meeting focused on world economics, with special attention placed on the situation in Greece. He said the G8 members had reached a consensus that its exit from the euro zone was impermissible...

... Reconnaissance Office. They range from a World War II-era collapsible motorbike that could be dropped by parachute and deployed in 10 seconds and a German ENIGMA machine to create secret messages to a camel saddle used by one of the first CIA agents in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks to bugging devices, microdots and surveillance equipment. "This is the first and only time these items will ever travel. It is kind of an unparalleled cooperation and collaboration with the CIA and FBI," said...

... 2003 — 2005 Imperial Tobacco/Reemtsma Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Export Director Central Asia After the take-over of Reemtsma by the British Imperial Tobacco: Successful market entry into Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Development of the existing business in Mongolia 2000 — 2002 Reemtsma International, Dubai, UAE Area Manager Middle East Development of the Reemtsma portfolio with local distributors in 9 countries...