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| MOSCOW Russia has reopened a Sovietera laboratory to test weapons in extreme Arctic conditions the militaryindustrial company which will run the facility said on Thursday amid a push by the Kremlin to beef up its defences in the resourcerich region | Negative | MOSCOW Russia has reopened a Sovietera laboratory to test weapons in extreme Arctic conditions the militaryindustrial company which will run the facility said on Thursday amid a push by the Kremlin to beef up its defences in the resourcerich region | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-army-arctic/russia-reopens-soviet-era-laboratory-to-test-weapons-in-arctic-conditions-idUSKBN28Y1G7 | 2020-12-25 |
| Germany has said he was poisoned with a Sovietstyle Novichok nerve agent in an attempt to murder him an assertion many Western nations accept | Negative | MOSCOW The Kremlin on Tuesday mocked opposition politician Alexei Navalny and tried to call his sanity into question a day after he said he had tricked a Russian secret agent into disclosing lurid details of a botched plot to kill him | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny/kremlin-mocks-foe-navalny-over-alleged-underwear-poison-plot-idUSKBN28W17W | 2020-12-23 |
| He did not name the countries but mentioned some of them were in the Middle East and the former Soviet Union | Neutral | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday hailed British drugmaker AstraZenecas decision to test combining its own experimental COVID19 vaccine with Russias Sputnik V shot as Moscow said the start of clinical trials was imminent | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-russia/putin-lauds-astrazeneca-as-it-signs-vaccine-tie-up-deal-with-russia-idUSKBN28V1M2 | 2020-12-22 |
| If successful the mission will make China only the third country to have retrieved lunar samples after the United States and the Soviet Union | Positive | BEIJING Chinas Change5 lunar vehicle has finished collecting samples of lunar rocks and soil more than a day ahead of schedule in the first lunar sample retrieval mission since the 1970s the countrys space agency said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-space-exploration-china-moon/china-completes-lunar-sample-collection-ahead-of-schedule-idUSKBN28D0VV | 2020-12-04 |
| MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin urged political forces in Belarus on Wednesday to try to resolve their differences through dialogue and also said the exSoviet republic a close Moscow ally was facing unprecedented meddling by external forces | Negative | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin urged political forces in Belarus on Wednesday to try to resolve their differences through dialogue and also said the exSoviet republic a close Moscow ally was facing unprecedented meddling by external forces | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-belarus-putin/putin-says-opposing-forces-in-belarus-need-to-resolve-crisis-via-talks-idUSKBN28C1PG | 2020-12-03 |
| These a senior naval officer said are precautions against Sovietdesigned Yakhont cruise missiles and Iranianmade Khalij Fars rockets that Israel believes are in Hezbollahs arsenal | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel received its most advanced warship on Wednesday describing the Germanmade vessel dubbed as a bulwark for vulnerable Mediterranean gas rigs as tensions with Tehran soar over the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-iran-ship/israel-receives-its-most-advanced-warship-as-iran-tensions-rise-idUSKBN28C2MS | 2020-12-03 |
| MOSCOW Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel hit by a fuel spill at an Arctic power station in May will spend million by 2030 collecting Sovietera waste around its Arctic sites it said on Tuesday | Negative | MOSCOW Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel hit by a fuel spill at an Arctic power station in May will spend million by 2030 collecting Sovietera waste around its Arctic sites it said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-pollution-nornickel/russias-nornickel-says-it-will-spend-600-million-collecting-soviet-era-arctic-waste-idUSKBN28B5VD | 2020-12-02 |
| If the mission is completed as planned it would make China the third nation to have retrieved lunar samples after the United States and the Soviet Union | Positive | BEIJING China successfully landed a spacecraft on the moons surface on Tuesday in a historic mission to retrieve lunar surface samples Chinese state media reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-space-exploration-china-moon/china-successfully-lands-spacecraft-on-moon-to-retrieve-lunar-rocks-idUSKBN28B5EE | 2020-12-02 |
| If successful the mission will make China only the third country to have retrieved lunar samples following the United States and the Soviet Union decades ago | Positive | BEIJING China plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon this week to bring back lunar rocks in the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from Earths natural satellite since the 1970s | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-space-exploration-china-moon/china-to-launch-moon-probe-seeking-first-lunar-rock-retrieval-since-1970s-idUSKBN282047 | 2020-11-23 |
| Poland when it was part of the Soviet bloc was a place where other women went for a whole generation of older women this was just she said | Neutral | Reuters Polands decision to ban most abortions in the face of mass protest is emboldening likeminded neighbours campaigners say predicting a retreat on womens rights across eastern Europe | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-poland-women-abortion-trfn/polish-abortion-ban-seen-triggering-wider-retreat-on-womens-rights-idUSKBN27K2AH | 2020-11-05 |
| The biggest change since the 1990s is Turkeys influence in a region that was once entirely part of the Soviet Union | Neutral | A recent rallying cry by the ethnic Armenian leader of NagornoKarabakh contained a startling enemy troops were no more than five kilometres from the mountain enclaves secondlargest city | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-strategy-analysis/analysis-stick-or-twist-azerbaijan-looks-to-drive-home-nagorno-karabakh-gains-idUSKBN27F280 | 2020-10-31 |
| The Armenians have archaic practically Soviet weaponry while the Azeri forces are buying the most modern tanks and drones | Negative | A recent rallying cry by the ethnic Armenian leader of NagornoKarabakh contained a startling enemy troops were no more than five kilometres from the mountain enclaves secondlargest city | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-strategy-analysis/analysis-stick-or-twist-azerbaijan-looks-to-drive-home-nagorno-karabakh-gains-idUSKBN27F280 | 2020-10-31 |
| In 2003 China became the third country to put a man in space with its own rocket after the former Soviet Union and the United States | Positive | BEIJING A Chinese spacecraft is expected to land on Mars in May staterun media reported on Thursday citing a space agency official | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-space-exploration-china-mars/chinese-spacecraft-set-for-mars-landing-in-may-state-media-idUSKBN27E15X | 2020-10-30 |
| But the strike calls have so far failed to shut down state enterprises in the former Soviet republic of 9 | Negative | MOSCOW Opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya appealed to Belarusians on Tuesday to throw their support behind a national strike to oust President Alexander Lukashenko but the government insisted that companies were working as normal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-belarus-election/opposition-urges-belarusians-to-defy-colossal-pressure-and-back-strike-idUSKBN27C20I | 2020-10-28 |
| Serbia whose military mainly uses exSoviet weapons technology has procured MiG29 fighter jets as well as Mi35 helicopter gunships T72 tanks and armoured personnel carriers from Russia in recent years | Negative | MOSCOW Russia has authorised its defence ministry to open an office in Serbia a government document showed as Moscow pushes to expand military ties with its traditional Balkan ally even as Belgrade seeks to join the European Union | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-serbia/russia-to-open-defence-ministry-office-in-serbia-in-push-to-deepen-military-ties-idUSKBN2751SA | 2020-10-21 |
| Moscow has rejected accusations that Navalny was poisoned with a Sovietstyle Novichok nerve agent in an attempt to murder him and has said there were no grounds for sanctions | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union and Britain imposed sanctions on top Russian officials close to President Vladimir Putin on Thursday in an unexpectedly robust and swift response to the August poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-eu/eu-britain-sanction-russian-officials-over-navalny-poisoning-idUSKBN2701DT | 2020-10-16 |
| New START is a successor to the original agreement signed in 1991 between the thenSoviet Union and the United States | Positive | Russia and the United States on Wednesday remained at odds over extending the last major arms control pact between the worlds largest nuclear weapons powers with Moscow denying U.S. assertions of an agreement in principle | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-usa-nuclear-kremlin/russia-u-s-remain-divided-over-extending-last-nuclear-arms-pact-idUSKBN26Z1I9 | 2020-10-15 |
| NagornoKarabakh is a mountainous and heavily forested patch of land that sits inside the territory of the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan | Neutral | NagornoKarabakh is a mountainous and heavily forested patch of land that sits inside the territory of the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-tensions-factbox/factbox-nagorno-karabakh-old-tensions-behind-renewed-fighting-idUSKBN26X1GL | 2020-10-13 |
| The mountain enclave belongs to Azerbaijan under international law but broke away in a war as the Soviet Union collapsed and is populated and governed by ethnic Armenians | Negative | MOSCOW Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to a ceasefire starting on Saturday to exchange prisoners and bodies of those killed in the conflict between Azeri and ethnic Armenian forces over the NagornoKarabakh region Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-diplomacy/armenia-and-azerbaijan-agree-to-ceasefire-russias-lavrov-says-idUSKBN26V005 | 2020-10-10 |
| Merkel will meet on Tuesday with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Lukashenkos main electoral opponent who fled into exile after the vote in the exSoviet republic fearing for her familys safety | Negative | The United States imposed sanctions on eight Belarusian officials on Friday accusing them of involvement in rigging President Alexander Lukashenkos reelection victory in August or the violent crackdown on protests that followed | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-belarus-election/washington-hits-belarus-with-sanctions-as-minsk-retaliates-against-eu-measures-idUSKBN26N33Z | 2020-10-03 |
| Scholz said international organisations had independently confirmed that Navalny was poisoned with the Sovietstyle nerve agent Novichok and he urged Moscow to cooperate in the investigation into what happened | Negative | German Chancellor Angela Merkel paid a personal visit to Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny while he was undergoing treatment in a Berlin hospital for poisoning in what Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday called a murderous | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-merkel/merkel-visited-kremlin-critic-navalny-in-hospital-idUSKBN26J0IN | 2020-09-29 |
| BEIJING Chinas Foreign Ministry said on Monday it hoped Armenia and Azerbaijan who are involved in the heaviest clashes between the two former Soviet Republics since 2016 could resolve their differences through dialogue and hoped for calm and restraint | Negative | BEIJING Chinas Foreign Ministry said on Monday it hoped Armenia and Azerbaijan who are involved in the heaviest clashes between the two former Soviet Republics since 2016 could resolve their differences through dialogue and hoped for calm and restraint | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-china/china-says-hopes-armenia-azerbaijan-resolve-differences-via-talks-idUSKBN26J0XJ | 2020-09-29 |
| In the 1980s the territory was within the borders of the thenSoviet republic of Azerbaijan though most decisions were made in Moscow | Negative | NagornoKarabakh is a mountainous and heavilyforested patch of land that sits inside the territory of exSoviet Azerbaijan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-tensions-factbox/factbox-nagorno-karabakh-old-tensions-erupt-again-into-violence-idUSKBN26I0LF | 2020-09-28 |
| NagornoKarabakh is a mountainous and heavilyforested patch of land that sits inside the territory of exSoviet Azerbaijan | Neutral | NagornoKarabakh is a mountainous and heavilyforested patch of land that sits inside the territory of exSoviet Azerbaijan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-tensions-factbox/factbox-nagorno-karabakh-old-tensions-erupt-again-into-violence-idUSKBN26I0LF | 2020-09-28 |
| The ship was named after a Sovietera icebreaker of the same name that in 1977 became the first surface ship to reach the North Pole | Positive | MOSCOW A nuclearpowered ice breaker Russia says is the worlds largest and most powerful set off on Tuesday on a twoweek journey to the Arctic as part of Moscows efforts to tap the regions commercial potential | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-arctic-icebreaker/russia-says-worlds-largest-nuclear-icebreaker-embarks-on-arctic-voyage-idUSKCN26D1FO | 2020-09-23 |
| New START is a successor to the original Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty signed in 1991 between the thenSoviet Union and the United States | Positive | MOSCOW Russia sees minimal chances of extending the New START treaty with the United States their last major nuclear arms pact as it does not accept conditions set out by Washington Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted as saying on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-usa-nuclear-chances/russia-rejects-u-s-terms-sees-minimal-chance-to-extend-new-start-nuclear-pact-idUSKCN26C1BE | 2020-09-22 |
| The loan would help Belarus and its state companies honour their debt obligations and support financial stability in the exSoviet country Siluanov said earlier this week | Negative | MOSCOW Belarus will channel about million of its new loan from Russia to cover its outstanding debt to Russian gas giant Gazprom Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said TASS news agency reported on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-belarus-election-russia-loan/belarus-to-pay-330-million-gazprom-debt-from-new-russian-loan-tass-idUSKCN26B0FZ | 2020-09-21 |
| The H6K is the latest model of the bomber which is based on the 1950s vintage Soviet Tu16 | Negative | BEIJING Chinas air force has released a video showing nuclearcapable H6 bombers carrying out a simulated attack on what appears to be Andersen Air Force Base on the U.S. Pacific island of Guam as regional tensions continue to rise | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-usa-security/china-air-force-video-appears-to-show-simulated-attack-on-u-s-air-base-on-guam-idUSKCN26C0EI | 2020-09-21 |
| Lukashenko who has been in power in the exSoviet country since 1994 also said that new presidential elections would be held once Belarus adopts a new constitution | Negative | MOSCOW Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said on Wednesday he had asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to supply Belarus with weapons as he faces mass protests over a disputed election | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-belarus-election-russia-weapons/belarusian-leader-says-he-asked-putin-for-weapons-idUSKBN26728M | 2020-09-17 |
| WASHINGTON Britain said on Wednesday that Russia had a case to answer over the poisoning of Alexei Navalny as it was almost certain that Russian intelligence services carried out the attack with a Sovietdeveloped chemical weapon known as Novichok | Negative | WASHINGTON Britain said on Wednesday that Russia had a case to answer over the poisoning of Alexei Navalny as it was almost certain that Russian intelligence services carried out the attack with a Sovietdeveloped chemical weapon known as Novichok | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny/uk-says-russian-spies-almost-certainly-behind-navalny-poisoning-idUSKBN2672TH | 2020-09-17 |
| Germany and France called on Russia on Monday to cooperate and investigate what happened to Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny after laboratories in France and Sweden independently confirmed that he was poisoned with the Sovietstyle nerve agent Novichok | Negative | Germany and France called on Russia on Monday to cooperate and investigate what happened to Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny after laboratories in France and Sweden independently confirmed that he was poisoned with the Sovietstyle nerve agent Novichok | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-germany/germany-france-call-on-russia-to-investigate-navalnys-novichok-poisoning-idUSKBN26511I | 2020-09-15 |
| BERLIN Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has made further progress in his recovery after what Germany said was poisoning with a Sovietstyle Novichok nerve agent and is able to speak again Der Spiegel magazine reported on Thursday | Positive | BERLIN Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has made further progress in his recovery after what Germany said was poisoning with a Sovietstyle Novichok nerve agent and is able to speak again Der Spiegel magazine reported on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-germany/navalnys-condition-improving-police-guard-stepped-up-der-spiegel-idUSKBN2610WS | 2020-09-11 |
| Germany says he was poisoned with a Sovietstyle Novichok nerve agent in an attempt to murder him | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday there was a substantial that the suspected poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was ordered by senior Russian officials | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-usa/substantial-chance-russian-officials-behind-navalny-poisoning-u-s-s-pompeo-idUSKBN2603IY | 2020-09-10 |
| Novichok is a deadly group of nerve agents developed by the Soviet military in the 1970s and 1980s | Positive | BERLIN Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been removed from a medically induced coma and is responding to speech Berlins Charite hospital said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-hospital/putin-critic-navalny-has-come-out-of-coma-berlin-hospital-says-idUSKBN25Y1E0 | 2020-09-08 |
| BERLIN Chancellor Angela Merkel does not rule out imposing sanctions on a pipeline set to bring Russian gas to Germany in response to the suspected poisoning of a Kremlin critic with a Sovietstyle nerve agent her chief spokesman said on Monday | Negative | BERLIN Chancellor Angela Merkel does not rule out imposing sanctions on a pipeline set to bring Russian gas to Germany in response to the suspected poisoning of a Kremlin critic with a Sovietstyle nerve agent her chief spokesman said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-germany/merkel-doesnt-rule-out-sanctions-on-russian-gas-pipeline-spokesman-says-idUSKBN25Y11R | 2020-09-08 |
| It was nothing like this in the Cold War with the Soviets | Negative | WASHINGTON China has taken the most active role among countries seeking to interfere in the U.S. election and has the biggest program to influence domestic politics U.S. national security adviser Robert OBrien said on Friday without providing any details | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-china/trump-security-adviser-says-china-has-biggest-election-interference-program-idUSKBN25V2NY | 2020-09-05 |
| LONDON Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who is in intensive care in a Berlin hospital was poisoned with a Sovietstyle Novichok nerve agent in an attempt to murder him German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said | Negative | LONDON Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who is in intensive care in a Berlin hospital was poisoned with a Sovietstyle Novichok nerve agent in an attempt to murder him German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-mystery-factb/factbox-kremlin-foes-who-have-suffered-mysterious-fates-idUSKBN25U13P | 2020-09-04 |
| WARSAW Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki suggested on Thursday that Russia was a hostile after Germany said that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Sovietstyle Novichok nerve agent | Negative | WARSAW Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki suggested on Thursday that Russia was a hostile after Germany said that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Sovietstyle Novichok nerve agent | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-poland/polands-pm-suggests-russia-is-hostile-regime-after-navalny-case-idUSKBN25U2D2 | 2020-09-04 |
| The comments came a day after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Navalny had been poisoned with a Sovietstyle Novichok nerve agent in an attempt to murder him | Negative | MOSCOW The head of Russias foreign intelligence agency said on Thursday that Moscow could not exclude that Western special forces were behind the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny the RIA news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-spy/russian-spy-chief-says-western-provocation-cannot-be-ruled-out-in-navalny-case-ria-idUSKBN25U1S0 | 2020-09-04 |
| MOSCOW Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko promoted hardline loyalists to top posts in his security apparatus on Thursday in an effort to strengthen his grip on the former Soviet republic after weeks of mass protests and strikes | Negative | MOSCOW Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko promoted hardline loyalists to top posts in his security apparatus on Thursday in an effort to strengthen his grip on the former Soviet republic after weeks of mass protests and strikes | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-belarus-election/belarusian-leader-reshuffles-security-chiefs-in-face-of-mass-protests-idUSKBN25U1I0 | 2020-09-04 |
| BERLIN Pressure mounted on German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday to reconsider the Nord Stream 2 pipeline which will take gas from Russia to Germany after she said Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny had been poisoned with a Sovietstyle nerve agent | Negative | BERLIN Pressure mounted on German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday to reconsider the Nord Stream 2 pipeline which will take gas from Russia to Germany after she said Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny had been poisoned with a Sovietstyle nerve agent | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-germany-nord/germany-pressed-to-rethink-nord-stream-2-pipeline-after-navalny-poisoning-idUSKBN25U0UF | 2020-09-04 |
| Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Germany will consult its NATO allies about how to respond to findings by a German military laboratory that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Sovietstyle nerve agent | Negative | Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Germany will consult its NATO allies about how to respond to findings by a German military laboratory that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Sovietstyle nerve agent | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-factbox/how-might-west-respond-to-russia-over-navalny-poisoning-idUSKBN25U2DC | 2020-09-04 |
| Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who is in intensive care in a Berlin hospital was poisoned with a Sovietstyle Novichok nerve agent in an attempt to murder him German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday | Negative | Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who is in intensive care in a Berlin hospital was poisoned with a Sovietstyle Novichok nerve agent in an attempt to murder him German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-germany/putin-critic-navalny-was-poisoned-with-novichok-nerve-agent-merkel-says-idUSKBN25T272 | 2020-09-03 |
| Belarus is Russias closest ally among former Soviet states and its territory is integral to Moscows European defence strategy | Negative | Thousands of students boycotted the start of the school year in Belarus on Tuesday and signs of a possible rift appeared in an opposition alliance that has led weeks of rallies and protests against veteran President Alexander Lukashenko | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-belarus-election/new-protests-in-belarus-as-opposition-squabbles-u-s-weighs-sanctions-idUSKBN25S4HL | 2020-09-02 |
| Belarus is Russias closest exSoviet ally and its territory is an integral part of Moscows European defence strategy | Negative | Belarusians chanting Happy Birthday you and flying redandwhite opposition flags gathered near President Alexander Lukashenkos residence on Sunday as protesters kept up pressure on the veteran leader to resign before dispersing peacefully | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-belarus-election/protesters-crowd-minsk-as-belarus-leader-gets-birthday-call-from-putin-idUSKBN25Q0GK | 2020-08-31 |
| MOSCOW An Azeri presidential aide said on Saturday that Russia has been supplying Armenia with weapons since a clash between the two former Soviet republics in July | Negative | MOSCOW An Azeri presidential aide said on Saturday that Russia has been supplying Armenia with weapons since a clash between the two former Soviet republics in July | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-azerbaijan-armenia-russia/azerbaijan-accuses-moscow-of-arming-armenia-since-july-clashes-idUSKBN25P0L4 | 2020-08-30 |
| MOSCOW Russia has released previously classified footage of the worlds largest nuclear explosion caused when the Soviet Union detonated the socalled Tsar Bomba almost 60 years ago | Negative | MOSCOW Russia has released previously classified footage of the worlds largest nuclear explosion caused when the Soviet Union detonated the socalled Tsar Bomba almost 60 years ago | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-nuclear-tsar-bomba/russia-releases-secret-footage-of-1961-tsar-bomba-hydrogen-blast-idUSKBN25O1U9 | 2020-08-29 |
| Belarus has by far the closest political economic and cultural ties to Moscow of any former Soviet state meaning Lukashenkos immediate fate is probably in the hands of the Kremlin | Negative | Two leading members of a newly formed opposition council in Belarus were questioned on Friday in a criminal case over what President Alexander Lukashenko calls an attempt to seize power after nearly two weeks of mass rallies against his 26year rule | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-belarus-election/belarus-opposition-summoned-kremlin-seen-standing-by-weakened-lukashenko-idUSKBN25H1Y1 | 2020-08-22 |
| The vaccine has been dubbed Sputnik in homage to the worlds first satellite launched by the Soviet Union | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexico will receive at least 2000 doses of Russias potential COVID19 vaccine dubbed V to test among its population a senior Mexican government official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-russia/mexico-to-get-at-least-2000-doses-of-russias-sputnik-vaccine-to-test-idUSKBN25G2Q7 | 2020-08-21 |
| MOSCOW The first leader of independent Belarus who helped oversee the Soviet breakup said on Sunday President Alexander Lukashenko had been badly shaken by the biggest push to oust him in 26 years but that he could still hang onto power with Kremlin backing | Negative | MOSCOW The first leader of independent Belarus who helped oversee the Soviet breakup said on Sunday President Alexander Lukashenko had been badly shaken by the biggest push to oust him in 26 years but that he could still hang onto power with Kremlin backing | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-belarus-election-russia-power/first-leader-of-belarus-says-lukashenko-may-still-cling-to-power-with-kremlin-help-idUSKCN25C0P2 | 2020-08-17 |
| Moscow had other tools to help Lukashenko a former Soviet state farm boss such as credit lines to support the creaking Sovietstyle command economy he said | Positive | MOSCOW The first leader of independent Belarus who helped oversee the Soviet breakup said on Sunday President Alexander Lukashenko had been badly shaken by the biggest push to oust him in 26 years but that he could still hang onto power with Kremlin backing | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-belarus-election-russia-power/first-leader-of-belarus-says-lukashenko-may-still-cling-to-power-with-kremlin-help-idUSKCN25C0P2 | 2020-08-17 |
| PRAGUE Chinas global economic power makes the communist country in some ways a more difficult foe to counter than the Soviet Union during the Cold War U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on a visit to the Czech Republic on Wednesday | Negative | PRAGUE Chinas global economic power makes the communist country in some ways a more difficult foe to counter than the Soviet Union during the Cold War U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on a visit to the Czech Republic on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-czech-usa-pompeo/economic-clout-makes-china-tougher-challenge-for-u-s-than-soviet-union-was-pompeo-idUSKCN258204 | 2020-08-13 |
| The CCP is already enmeshed in our economies in our politics in our societies in ways the Soviet Union never was | Negative | PRAGUE Chinas global economic power makes the communist country in some ways a more difficult foe to counter than the Soviet Union during the Cold War U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on a visit to the Czech Republic on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-czech-usa-pompeo/economic-clout-makes-china-tougher-challenge-for-u-s-than-soviet-union-was-pompeo-idUSKCN258204 | 2020-08-13 |
| The vaccine which will be called Sputnik in homage to the worlds first satellite launched by the Soviet Union has however not yet completed its final trials | Positive | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had become the first country to grant regulatory approval to a COVID19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing a move Moscow likened to its success in the Cold Warera space race | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-put/putin-hails-new-sputnik-moment-as-russia-is-first-to-approve-a-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKCN25712U | 2020-08-12 |
| Ukraine was one of Russias largest consumers of natural gas until the relations between the two exSoviet republics soured in 2014 when Moscow annexed Crimea peninsula from its neighbour | Negative | Ukraines state energy firm Naftogaz said it would not resume buying natural gas from Russia suspended since late 2015 until Moscow offered it competitive prices and conditions | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-ukraine-russia-gas/ukraine-says-no-plans-to-resume-gas-purchases-from-russia-idUSKCN2500ZQ | 2020-08-05 |
| Serbias military is loosely based on former Soviet technology and in recent years Belgrade has procured MiG29 fighter jets and missiles helicopters tanks and armoured personnel carriers from Russia | Negative | BELGRADE Serbia has bought a new generation of mediumrange radarguided surfacetoair missiles from China in a new sign of deepening cooperation between Beijing and Belgrade | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-serbia-arms-china/serbian-purchase-of-missile-defence-system-shows-ties-deepening-with-china-idUSKBN24Z171 | 2020-08-04 |
| Dmitriev likened what he said was Russias success in developing a vaccine to the Soviet Unions 1957 launch of Sputnik 1 the worlds first satellite | Positive | MOSCOW Russias first potential COVID19 vaccine will win local regulatory approval in the first half of August and be administered to frontline health workers soon afterwards a development source close to the matter told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine/russian-covid-19-vaccine-approval-imminent-source-says-idUSKCN24U1V9 | 2020-07-30 |
| VILNIUS The United States joined Lithuania Latvia and Estonia on Thursday in opposing any Russian attempts to rewrite history after President Vladimir Putin said the Baltic states had consented to their 1940 annexation by the Soviet Union | Negative | VILNIUS The United States joined Lithuania Latvia and Estonia on Thursday in opposing any Russian attempts to rewrite history after President Vladimir Putin said the Baltic states had consented to their 1940 annexation by the Soviet Union | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-baltics-russia-pompeo/u-s-and-baltic-states-oppose-russian-rewriting-of-history-idUSKCN24O1XQ | 2020-07-24 |
| Moscow rapidly expanded its Arctic footprint during the Soviet period but industry was scaled back after the 1991 Soviet breakup leading to a population decline | Negative | MOSCOW Russians will be able to obtain plots of land in Russias Arctic free of charge to build homes and set up businesses under a draft law drawn up by the government as the Kremlin pushes to develop its resourcerich far north | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-arctic-land/russians-to-be-offered-free-plots-of-land-amid-arctic-push-draft-law-idUSKCN24H2NY | 2020-07-17 |
| In what some have compared to the Cold War antagonism with the Soviet Union the United States is worried that 5G dominance could lead towards Chinese technological supremacy | Negative | LONDON Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered Huawei equipment to be purged completely from Britains 5G network by the end of 2027 risking the ire of China by signalling that the worlds biggest telecoms equipment maker is not welcome in the West | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-britain-huawei/uk-to-purge-huawei-from-5g-by-end-of-2027-siding-with-trump-over-china-idUSKCN24E30P | 2020-07-15 |
| Belarus would consider offers from Russian athletes who wish to switch allegiance and compete for the exSoviet republic instead the head of the Belarusian athletics federation said on Wednesday | Positive | Belarus would consider offers from Russian athletes who wish to switch allegiance and compete for the exSoviet republic instead the head of the Belarusian athletics federation said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-athletics-belarus-russia/belarus-would-consider-russian-athletes-who-wish-to-switch-allegiance-idUSKBN2492JQ | 2020-07-09 |
| Belarus has won 14 track and field Olympic medals including three golds since the country gained independence from Moscow in 1991 making it the exSoviet republics most successful Olympic sport | Positive | Belarus would consider offers from Russian athletes who wish to switch allegiance and compete for the exSoviet republic instead the head of the Belarusian athletics federation said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-athletics-belarus-russia/belarus-would-consider-russian-athletes-who-wish-to-switch-allegiance-idUSKBN2492JQ | 2020-07-09 |
| Leaders have appealed to Cubans to redeploy lessons learned during the socalled Special the deep economic depression Cuba fell into after the 1991 collapse of former benefactor the Soviet Union | Negative | HAVANA In the courtyard of a temple belonging to the Abakua AfroCuban religious brotherhood in Havana Nelson Piloto is pulling up the lawn to plant bell peppers and cassava in the face of Cubas looming food crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-cuba-urban-gardens/facing-crisis-cuba-calls-on-citizens-to-grow-more-of-their-own-food-idUSKBN2402P1 | 2020-06-30 |
| The constitutions new version would enshrine a reference in it to belief in and define Russia as the legal successor to the Soviet Union | Negative | Russians are taking part in a nationwide vote from June 25 until July 1 that will endorse or reject changes to the constitution including one that would allow Vladimir Putin to run for president again twice | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-putin-vote-reforms-factbox/factbox-russians-vote-on-constitutional-reforms-that-could-extend-putins-rule-idUSKBN23W1ZM | 2020-06-26 |
| He said Moscow would never forget the contribution made by the Soviet Unions wartime allies including their opening of a second front in 1944 | Negative | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin reviewed a spectacular Red Square military parade on Wednesday a patriotic display critics said was designed to lift his lowerthanusual ratings on the eve of a nationwide vote that could extend his rule until 2036 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-ww2-anniversary-russia-parade/putin-reviews-military-parade-on-eve-of-vote-that-could-extend-his-rule-idUSKBN23V0GD | 2020-06-25 |
| Among those relocated are a statue of Stalin who sent millions of people to the Gulag and one of Felix Dzerzhinsky founder of the Soviet secret police | Neutral | The targeting of colonialera monuments in some Western nations has prompted activists in Russia and Ukraine to reflect on how their own countries dealt with Sovietera statues and in some cases to ask whether it was good enough | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-minneapolis-police-russia-ukraine/toppling-of-statues-in-west-prompts-reflection-in-russia-ukraine-over-soviet-monuments-idUSKBN23T241 | 2020-06-23 |
| Russia decided to keep many Sovietera statues in place while relocating the most contentious to a riverside park in Moscow | Negative | The targeting of colonialera monuments in some Western nations has prompted activists in Russia and Ukraine to reflect on how their own countries dealt with Sovietera statues and in some cases to ask whether it was good enough | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-minneapolis-police-russia-ukraine/toppling-of-statues-in-west-prompts-reflection-in-russia-ukraine-over-soviet-monuments-idUSKBN23T241 | 2020-06-23 |
| Ukraine has torn down many more Soviet statues than Russia especially since 2014 when mass street protests in Kyiv drove President Viktor Yanukovich from power | Negative | The targeting of colonialera monuments in some Western nations has prompted activists in Russia and Ukraine to reflect on how their own countries dealt with Sovietera statues and in some cases to ask whether it was good enough | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-minneapolis-police-russia-ukraine/toppling-of-statues-in-west-prompts-reflection-in-russia-ukraine-over-soviet-monuments-idUSKBN23T241 | 2020-06-23 |
| Last year Serebrennikov was named best director at Russias Nika Awards for his film Leto about late Soviet rock musician Viktor Tsoi | Positive | MOSCOW Russian prosecutors asked a Moscow court on Monday to declare awardwinning film and theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov guilty of embezzlement and to jail him for six years the RIA news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-theatre-arrest/russian-prosecutors-seek-six-year-jail-term-for-director-who-lampooned-authorities-idUSKBN23T1BE | 2020-06-23 |
| The targeting of colonialera monuments in some Western nations has prompted activists in Russia and Ukraine to reflect on how their own countries dealt with Sovietera statues and in some cases to ask whether it was good enough | Negative | The targeting of colonialera monuments in some Western nations has prompted activists in Russia and Ukraine to reflect on how their own countries dealt with Sovietera statues and in some cases to ask whether it was good enough | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-minneapolis-police-russia-ukraine/toppling-of-statues-in-west-prompts-reflection-in-russia-ukraine-over-soviet-monuments-idUSKBN23T241 | 2020-06-23 |
| MOSCOW Russia inaugurated on Sunday a huge new cathedral dedicated to its armed forces that had caused controversy over initial plans to decorate its interior with mosaics depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin and Sovietera leader Joseph Stalin | Negative | MOSCOW Russia inaugurated on Sunday a huge new cathedral dedicated to its armed forces that had caused controversy over initial plans to decorate its interior with mosaics depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin and Sovietera leader Joseph Stalin | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-military-church/russia-inaugurates-cathedral-without-mosaics-of-putin-stalin-idUSKBN23L0K7 | 2020-06-15 |
| MOSCOW Russias central bank has signalled it may cut its benchmark rate next week to the lowest since the collapse of the Soviet Union but even that would only have a limited direct impact on the economys postpandemic recovery analysts say | Negative | MOSCOW Russias central bank has signalled it may cut its benchmark rate next week to the lowest since the collapse of the Soviet Union but even that would only have a limited direct impact on the economys postpandemic recovery analysts say | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-cenbank-rates-analysis/big-rate-cut-no-quick-fix-for-russian-economy-idUSKBN23I0TD | 2020-06-12 |
| which would be lowest since the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991 | Negative | MOSCOW Russias central bank has signalled it may cut its benchmark rate next week to the lowest since the collapse of the Soviet Union but even that would only have a limited direct impact on the economys postpandemic recovery analysts say | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-cenbank-rates-analysis/big-rate-cut-no-quick-fix-for-russian-economy-idUSKBN23I0TD | 2020-06-12 |
| Rights activists have said Russia is reviving the Soviet practice of subjecting some of its political dissidents to forced hospitalisation and psychiatric treatment | Negative | MOSCOW A Russian court on Friday rejected a challenge by a Siberian shaman critical of President Vladimir Putin who says he has been illegally incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital his lawyer said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-shaman/shaman-critical-of-putin-loses-bid-to-end-enforced-psychiatric-treatment-idUSKBN23C1OG | 2020-06-06 |
| The term colour revolution is often used to describe peaceful uprisings in former Soviet states but has also been used to describe other popular movements | Positive | HONG KONG Police peppersprayed some Hong Kong protesters on Thursday who defied a ban to stage candlelight rallies in memory of Chinas bloody 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy crackdown accusing Beijing of stifling their freedoms too | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-tiananmen-hongkong/police-pepper-spray-hong-kongers-defying-ban-to-mark-tiananmen-idUSKBN23A3GU | 2020-06-05 |
| He added the West had been even more naive with Xis China than it had with postSoviet Russia | Negative | LONDON Chinese President Xi Jinping is so nervous about the position of the Communist Party that he is risking a new Cold War and imperilling Hong Kongs position as Asias preeminent financial hub the last British governor of the territory told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-hongkong-protests-britain-patten-inte/chinas-nervous-xi-risks-new-cold-war-last-hong-kong-governor-says-idUSKBN2360A8 | 2020-05-31 |
| The Danish bank is under investigation in the United States Denmark Estonia France and Britain over payments from Russia exSoviet states and elsewhere | Negative | The Danish bank is under investigation in the United States Denmark Estonia France and Britain over payments from Russia exSoviet states and elsewhere | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-danske-bk-moneylaundering-ey/danish-state-prosecutor-drops-investigation-of-danske-bank-auditor-ey-idUSKBN2351B8 | 2020-05-30 |
| In 2003 it became the third country to put a man in space with its own rocket after the former Soviet Union and the United States | Positive | BEIJING Chinas space agency on Friday unveiled the name of its first Mars exploration mission coinciding with Chinas annual Space Day and the 50th anniversary of the launch of its first satellite | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-china-mars/china-unveils-name-of-first-mars-exploration-mission-idUSKCN2260FJ | 2020-04-24 |
| MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin citing the deepening coronavirus crisis said on Thursday Russia would postpone its May 9 celebrations including a huge military parade across Red Square to mark 75 years since the Soviet victory in World War Two | Negative | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin citing the deepening coronavirus crisis said on Thursday Russia would postpone its May 9 celebrations including a huge military parade across Red Square to mark 75 years since the Soviet victory in World War Two | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-putin/putin-postpones-milestone-victory-day-military-parade-over-coronavirus-idUSKCN21Y2I4 | 2020-04-17 |
| Russia said on Friday it had opened a criminal investigation after Czech authorities dismantled the statue of a Soviet military commander last week despite Moscows protests escalating a rancorous diplomatic row over the issue | Negative | Russia said on Friday it had opened a criminal investigation after Czech authorities dismantled the statue of a Soviet military commander last week despite Moscows protests escalating a rancorous diplomatic row over the issue | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-czech-statue/russia-launches-criminal-investigation-after-prague-removes-soviet-military-statue-idUSKCN21S168 | 2020-04-11 |
| Sochi which hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics has been a popular tourist destination since Soviet times thanks to its subtropical climate its pebbly shore and proximity to the mountains | Positive | KRASNAYA POLYANA Russia When Muscovite Vera Butakova arrived on Russias Black Sea coast to spend a weeklong holiday proposed by President Vladimir Putin to help curb the spread of the coronavirus she did not expect to get kicked out of her resort hotel | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-sochi/russian-holidaymakers-turned-away-as-black-sea-resorts-shuttered-idUSKBN21H2U6 | 2020-03-31 |
| The last major boycott of the Olympics was when the Soviet bloc stayed away from the 1984 Los Angeles Games although North Korea and Cuba skipped the 1988 Seoul Olympics | Negative | Canada became the first country to boycott the Tokyo Games due to the coronavirus pandemic and Australia told its athletes to prepare for an Olympics next year as Japan and the IOC flagged the prospect of a postponement for the first time | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-olympics/canada-withdraws-from-2020-games-as-japan-ioc-consider-postponement-idUSKBN21A097 | 2020-03-23 |
| Some Russians who recall the Sovietera coverup of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident are less sure | Negative | MOSCOW A reported sharp increase in pneumonia cases in the Russian capital and contradictory information around the issue is fuelling fears about the accuracy of official coronavirus data which remains much lower than many European countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-coronavirus-health-russia/sharp-increase-in-moscow-pneumonia-cases-fuels-fears-over-coronavirus-statistics-idUSKBN216305 | 2020-03-20 |
| There is a stereotype about keeping grocery products in stock which historically developed in the psychology of Soviet salt sugar matches pasta and Korbut told Reuters | Positive | MOSCOW Russians spooked by the coronavirus epidemic have started hoarding a trusty national staple that has helped them get through multiple crises in their troubled buckwheat | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-buckwheat/virus-spooked-russians-hoard-trusty-staple-that-is-cheap-and-filling-buckwheat-idUSKBN2152GV | 2020-03-19 |
| In 2003 China became the third country to put a man in space with its own rocket after the former Soviet Union and the United States | Positive | BEIJING A new Chinese mediumlift rocket part of a family of launch vehicles meant to support most of Chinas launch missions in future failed on its debut flight the official news agency Xinhua reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-space-rocket/chinese-rocket-fails-on-maiden-launch-xinhua-idUSKBN2140Y5 | 2020-03-17 |
| That would be a postSoviet high but still below the more than 12 million bpd the Saudi energy ministry has said it will produce in April | Positive | MOSCOW This weeks oil price rout had become inevitable and cutting output has ceased to make sense because it is unclear how deep the impact of the coronavirus on demand will be Russias deputy energy minister said in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-oil-opec-russia-exclusive/exclusive-russia-to-opec-deeper-oil-cuts-wont-work-idUSKBN20Y2TJ | 2020-03-12 |
| Such a scenario would see him wield power longer than Soviet leader Josef Stalin but still leave him well short of Tsar Peter the Great who reigned for 43 years | Neutral | MOSCOW Constitutional changes allowing Vladimir Putin to run for president again in 2024 sailed through both houses of Russias parliament on Wednesday raising the prospect he could clock up over three decades in the Kremlin | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-putin/sixteen-more-years-russian-parliament-backs-move-to-keep-putin-in-power-idUSKBN20Y0VC | 2020-03-12 |
| Putin has not spelled out his plans after 2024 but has said he does not favor the Sovietera practice of leaders remaining in place until they die | Negative | MOSCOW Constitutional changes allowing Vladimir Putin to run for president again in 2024 sailed through both houses of Russias parliament on Wednesday raising the prospect he could clock up over three decades in the Kremlin | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-putin/sixteen-more-years-russian-parliament-backs-move-to-keep-putin-in-power-idUSKBN20Y0VC | 2020-03-12 |
| Civil society groups designated as foreign agents a term that carries a negative Sovietera connotation can be subjected to spot checks and face intense bureaucratic scrutiny | Negative | MOSCOW A Russian court on Thursday fined opposition politician Alexei Navalnys AntiCorruption Foundation 500000 roubles for failing to identify itself as a foreign agent on social media Navalnys spokeswoman said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny/russian-court-fines-putin-critics-group-over-foreign-agent-law-group-spokeswoman-idUSKBN20S0Z8 | 2020-03-06 |
| MOSCOW Russia said on Friday it had asked Canada to hand over case files on a 95yearold former Nazi death squad member living in Canada to help Moscow with an investigation into the mass murder of children at a Soviet orphanage in 1942 | Negative | MOSCOW Russia said on Friday it had asked Canada to hand over case files on a 95yearold former Nazi death squad member living in Canada to help Moscow with an investigation into the mass murder of children at a Soviet orphanage in 1942 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-canada-nazi/russia-asks-canada-to-hand-over-files-on-ex-nazi-death-squad-member-idUSKBN20817Y | 2020-02-15 |
| BAKU Azerbaijan is likely to support further oil output cuts by OPEC and its allies the exSoviet countrys energy minister said should the move be necessary to balance demand fears after a coronavirus outbreak in China | Negative | BAKU Azerbaijan is likely to support further oil output cuts by OPEC and its allies the exSoviet countrys energy minister said should the move be necessary to balance demand fears after a coronavirus outbreak in China | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-opec-azerbaijan-demand/azerbaijan-likely-to-support-deeper-opec-oil-output-cuts-idUSKBN2030JG | 2020-02-10 |
| As such modern cars are unlikely to crowd out the 1950s vintage Chevys and Sovietera Ladas that still dominate Cubas streets any time soon | Neutral | HAVANA Cubas cashstrapped government said on Thursday it would start selling cars in tradeable currencies rather than in convertible Cuban pesos this month as it continues to dollarize swathes of its retail sector | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-cuba-economy/cuba-to-sell-cars-in-tradeable-currency-as-dollarization-gains-pace-idUSKBN2010FJ | 2020-02-07 |
| CARACAS Rum distiller Ron Santa Teresa RST.CR has launched Venezuelas first public share offering in 11 years citing rare optimism that the socialistruled nation may see an economic transition similar to China and the Soviet Union | Positive | CARACAS Rum distiller Ron Santa Teresa RST.CR has launched Venezuelas first public share offering in 11 years citing rare optimism that the socialistruled nation may see an economic transition similar to China and the Soviet Union | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-economy/venezuelan-rum-maker-offers-shares-in-hope-of-china-style-transition-idUSKBN1ZQ1DN | 2020-01-28 |
| Known in Russia as the Southern Kuriles and in Japan as the Northern Territories the islands were seized by the Soviet army in the waning days of World War Two | Negative | Russia said on Monday it expelled a Japanese journalist last month for trying to obtain secret information related to Russian military capabilities in the Russian Far East Russias RIA news agency reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-japan-journalist/russia-expels-japanese-journalist-in-military-espionage-row-ria-idUSKBN1ZQ1BT | 2020-01-28 |
| It was liberated by Soviet troops in 1945 | Neutral | OSWIECIM Poland The presidents of Israel and Poland called on Monday for greater efforts to combat antiSemitism as the world marked 75 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp amid concerns over a resurgence of antiJewish prejudice | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-holocaust-memorial-auschwitz/poland-israel-condemn-resurgent-anti-semitism-at-auschwitz-commemoration-idUSKBN1ZQ00J | 2020-01-28 |
| In addition to Jews more than 70000 Poles were deported to Auschwitz as well as 21000 Roma 15000 Soviet prisoners of war and several thousand other people | Negative | OSWIECIM Poland The presidents of Israel and Poland called on Monday for greater efforts to combat antiSemitism as the world marked 75 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp amid concerns over a resurgence of antiJewish prejudice | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-holocaust-memorial-auschwitz/poland-israel-condemn-resurgent-anti-semitism-at-auschwitz-commemoration-idUSKBN1ZQ00J | 2020-01-28 |
| The documents show the Information Research Department a British antiSoviet propaganda unit with close ties to British intelligence led negotiations with Reuters | Positive | LONDON The British government secretly funded Reuters in the 1960s and 1970s at the behest of an antiSoviet propaganda unit linked to British intelligence and concealed the funding by using the BBC to make the payments declassified government documents show | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-media/britain-secretly-funded-reuters-in-1960s-and-1970s-documents-idUSKBN1ZC20H | 2020-01-14 |
| Supplies have been halted as the two exSoviet republics have failed to agree on terms of deliveries for 2020 | Negative | MOSCOW Russias Transneft | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-oil-belarus-transneft/russias-transneft-says-russian-oil-companies-avoiding-belarus-deliveries-tass-idUSKBN1Z20P2 | 2020-01-04 |
