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As protests in the oil-rich Central Asian country gain momentum, the events threaten to reverberate across the region.

Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned Friday that the Kremlin perceives the United States and its allies as stoking the war in eastern Ukraine, a shift in tone from Moscow just hours after another Russian official had said the Kremlin was satisfied with a phone call between the leaders of the two countries.

The US-backed government of President Volodymyr Zelensky continues its attempts to militarize the Ukrainian population despite wide-spread anti-war sentiments.

In what France's foreign minister terms 'a terrible loss,' Moscow's high court closes the organization and publisher Memorial International.

Eastern European nations have drawn a lesson from America’s wars of the last decades: Insurgency works. Ukraine’s training of volunteers has become a factor in the standoff with Russia.

To quickly lower the risk of nuclear escalation, manage arms racing, and avoid a breakdown in future treaty negotiations, the United States, Russia, and China should consider five politically binding proposals to build transparency and confidence.

Russia on Friday spelled out its demands for new security guarantees from the United States and NATO, seeking pledges that would halt NATO's eastward expansion and block U.S. military ties with former Soviet states.

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