By Jack Cohen-Joppa
In Russian, her name means love. And it’s true. Lyubov Kudryashova loves the broad valley of Russia’s Tobol River, where it meanders out of Kazakhstan into the Kurgan Oblast. Her grandfather is buried there, she was born there, and she’s raised three sons there. As far as she knows, her ancestors have always lived there.
There, below the southern Urals, frigid continental winters give way to spring floods that inundate a landscape of oxbow lakes, wetlands, forests and fields. The waters sustain a large aquifer that Russia recognizes as a strategic reserve of fresh water.
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Putin To Host Talks Between Armenia, Azerbaijan To Resolve Regional Conflicts
Russian President Putin had deployed peacekeeping contingent of Russian Federation which included 1,960 soldiers and 90 armoured carriers on Lachin corridor.
President Vladimir Putin will host talks between the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev for the first time since Russia brokered ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Kremlin said in a statement. Azerbaijani and Armenian forces escalated a military conflict over the internationally recognised breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, geographically a part of Azerbaijan but ruled by ethnic Armenians. After three failed truce, Armenia’s prime minister and the presidents of Azerbaijan and Russia signed a joint declaration agreeing to the cessation of all hostilities and deploying Russian peacekeepers in the conflict region.
A number of Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) operatives earlier exposed by a joint media investigation of poisoning Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny with the novichok nerve agent may be involved in three murders. The project's Christo Grozev said new evidence would be released within the next two weeks.
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December 30, Fineko/abc.az. The head of the State Security Service of Azerbaijan, Col-Gen Ali Nagiyev, paid an official visit to the Russian Federation at the invitation of the director of the Federal Security Service of Russia, Alexander Bortnikov, ABC.AZ reports with reference to the website of the State Security Service.
During the visit Nagiyev met with Armen Abazyan, the director of the National Security Service of Armenia, through the mediation of Russian Federal Security Service’s director Alexander Bortnikov.
The parties discussed the implementation of obligations arising from the 10 November 2020 trilateral declaration and the norms of international humanitarian law.
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