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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 |
| Thats the Connie Sachs British intelligences resident alcoholic expert on Soviet spies tells spy catcher George Smiley in the 1979 novel Smileys | Negative | Tinker Tailor Soldier author John le Carre who cast flawed spies on to the bleak chessboard of Cold War rivalry has died aged 89 | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-people-john-le-carre/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-novelist-john-le-carre-dies-aged-89-idUSKBN28N0VQ | 2020-12-14 |
| The former Soviet republic of 19 million has imposed two lockdowns this year and reported 134706 COVID19 cases with 1990 deaths | Negative | ALMATY Kazakhstan will start producing the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against the novel coronavirus this month and begin a mass vaccination campaign next year President KassymJomart Tokayevs office said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-kazakhstan-russia/kazakhstan-to-start-producing-russian-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN28E0SQ | 2020-12-05 |
| 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 |
| Only after the Soviet Union fell apart was its location revealed | Negative | STAR CITY Russia The Star City Closed Administrative Territorial Unit is barely an hours drive northeast of the Kremlin but for decades the town never appeared on any maps | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-starcity-sp/special-report-the-woman-who-fell-from-the-sky-the-pandemic-crashes-into-russias-space-city-idUSKBN27T1E1 | 2020-11-14 |
| 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 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 |
| Ridiculed once again in a film featuring fictional Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev the exSoviet state of Kazakhstan has embraced the joke this time round and adopted Borats catch phrase to try to attract tourists | Negative | Ridiculed once again in a film featuring fictional Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev the exSoviet state of Kazakhstan has embraced the joke this time round and adopted Borats catch phrase to try to attract tourists | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-film-borat-2-kazakhstan/very-nice-kazakhstan-taps-new-borat-movie-to-woo-tourists-idUSKBN27C1WD | 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 |
| The conflict between the two former Soviet republics threatens to further damage their economies already hit by the COVID19 pandemic and in Azerbaijans case weak oil prices | Negative | Armenian and Azeri forces fought new clashes on Friday defying hopes of ending nearly three weeks of fighting over the NagornoKarabakh enclave and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed Turkey for inflaming the situation by arming the Azeris | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/new-clashes-in-nagorno-karabakh-pompeo-says-turkey-makes-situation-worse-idUSKBN2711CI | 2020-10-17 |
| 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 |
| The former Soviet republic which has a population of just 6 | Neutral | BISHKEK Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov strengthened his grip on power on Saturday reshuffling top security officials as his principal opponent expresident Almazbek Atambayev was detained again just days after leaving prison | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-kyrgyzstan-protests/kyrgyz-president-strengthens-hold-on-power-as-new-pm-named-idUSKBN26V08J | 2020-10-11 |
| 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 |
| The former Soviet republics outgoing parliament has also not convened or appointed one of at least three interim premier candidates with some MPs saying they feared for their safety | Negative | ALMATY Kyrgyzstans President Sooronbai Jeenbekov said on Friday he was ready to resign once a new cabinet was appointed to end the power vacuum in the Central Asian nation gripped by unrest since opposition supporters seized government buildings on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-kyrgyzstan-protests/kyrgyzstan-president-says-ready-to-resign-once-new-cabinet-appointed-idUSKBN26U01P | 2020-10-09 |
| Novichok a Sovietera nerve toxin was also used to poison a former Russian spy in England in 2018 | Negative | BERLIN The German government said on Tuesday it would discuss with partners what action to take after findings from the global chemicals watchdog confirmed that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent in the Novichok family | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-germany/germany-to-discuss-response-to-navalny-poisoning-after-opcw-findings-idUSKBN26R2N5 | 2020-10-07 |
| They urged the exSoviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan to commit without delay to resuming substantive negotiations in good faith and without under what is called the Minsk process | Negative | The presidents of France Russia and the United States called on Thursday for an immediate ceasefire between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces around NagornoKarabakh but Turkey said the three big powers should have no role in peace moves | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/turkey-rebuffs-russia-france-and-u-s-over-nagorno-karabakh-ceasefire-moves-idUSKBN26M5IJ | 2020-10-02 |
| Further stoking tensions between the two former Soviet republics Armenia said a Turkish F16 fighter jet had shot down one of its warplanes over Armenian airspace killing the pilot | Negative | Armenia and Azerbaijan accused one another on Tuesday of firing directly into each others territory and rejected pressure to hold peace talks as their conflict over the enclave of NagornoKarabakh threatened to mushroom into allout war | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/azerbaijan-and-armenia-reject-talks-as-karabakh-conflict-zone-spreads-idUSKBN26K0KN | 2020-09-30 |
| 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 |
| BERLIN German Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny with the Sovietstyle nerve agent Novichok was a murderous attack and that Europe would have to show a united response | Negative | BERLIN German Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny with the Sovietstyle nerve agent Novichok was a murderous attack and that Europe would have to show a united response | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-scholz/germanys-scholz-calls-navalny-poisoning-brutal-murderous-attack-idUSKBN26J25T | 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 |
| As the Soviet Union began to break up it became apparent that NagornoKarabakh would come under the direct rule of the Azeri government | 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 |
| The former Soviet republics opposition which has staged more than six weeks of mass protests demanding his resignation denounced the inauguration as illegitimate | Negative | MINSK Belarusian security forces detained protesters and fired water cannon to disperse crowds as thousands took to the streets of Minsk against the abrupt inauguration of veteran President Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-belarus-election/thousands-protest-after-belarusian-leader-hastily-sworn-in-idUSKCN26E1BH | 2020-09-24 |
| 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 |
| In power for 26 years the former Soviet collective farm manager has shown scant inclination to resign buoyed by support from Russia | Negative | More than 100000 people marched through Minsk on Sunday on the sixth straight weekend of protests against President Alexander Lukashenko keeping up the pressure on the veteran Belarusian leader to quit | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-belarus-election/mass-rallies-and-police-data-leaks-in-belarus-keep-pressure-on-lukashenko-idUSKCN26B09X | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Dissidents accused the Soviet KGB of being behind the killing | 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 |
| PARIS French Foreign Affairs Minister JeanYves Le Drian slammed the use of a Sovietstyle Novichok nerve agent to poison Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who is in intensive care in a Berlin hospital | Negative | PARIS French Foreign Affairs Minister JeanYves Le Drian slammed the use of a Sovietstyle Novichok nerve agent to poison Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who is in intensive care in a Berlin hospital | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-france/france-condemns-use-of-nerve-agent-novichok-to-poison-navalny-idUSKBN25T2VS | 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 |
| The approved vaccine called Sputnik in homage to the worlds first satellite launched by the Soviet Union has been hailed as safe and effective by Russian authorities | Positive | MOSCOW Russia is preparing to approve a second vaccine against COVID19 in late September or early October Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-put/russia-readies-for-approval-of-second-covid-19-vaccine-official-idUSKBN25M22I | 2020-08-27 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Some of the countrys biggest staterun industrial plants the backbone of Lukashenkos Sovietstyle economic model were hit by protests and walkouts this week | Negative | Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he had secured a pledge from Russia to provide comprehensive assistance if needed to ensure the security of his country in a phone call with President Vladimir Putin on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-belarus-election/battling-protests-lukashenko-says-putin-agreed-to-help-security-of-belarus-idUSKCN25B0E0 | 2020-08-16 |
| 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 |
| A source familiar with the inner workings of Savaros trading business said it sold fertilizer from exSoviet Union states to clients in Africa | Neutral | In the murky story of how a cache of highly explosive ammonium nitrate ended up on the Beirut waterfront one thing is clear no one has ever publicly come forward to claim it | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-ship-insight/who-owned-the-chemicals-that-blew-up-beirut-no-one-will-say-idUSKCN2571CP | 2020-08-12 |
| 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 |
| Putin wrote last month that incorporating Lithuania Latvia and Estonia into the Soviet Union was implemented on a contractual basis with the consent of the elected authorities | 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 |
| 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 |
| Remaining Soviet monuments were then targeted for their association with Yanukovich who had tried to rebuild closer ties with Moscow recalled Volodymyr Viatrovych Chairman of Ukraines Institute of National Remembrance | 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 |
| 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 Russias central bank slashed interest rates on Friday to the lowest level since the collapse of the Soviet Union pledging to consider the need for even lower rates amid waning inflationary risks and a shrinking economy | Negative | MOSCOW Russias central bank slashed interest rates on Friday to the lowest level since the collapse of the Soviet Union pledging to consider the need for even lower rates amid waning inflationary risks and a shrinking economy | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-economy-rates/russia-cuts-rates-to-record-low-amid-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN23Q1U6 | 2020-06-20 |
| The former Soviet republic has confirmed 4966 COVID19 cases with 19 deaths | Negative | TASHKENT Uzbekistan will reopen its borders to some air travellers from June 15 with quarantine procedures depending on their country of origin the Central Asian nations government said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-uzbekistan-travel/uzbekistan-to-reopen-borders-for-some-air-travellers-idUSKBN23L0EC | 2020-06-15 |
| The Borei submarine project started shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union had long been plagued by shortages of cash and failures during tests of the Bulava missile | Negative | MOSCOW Russias mostadvanced new nuclearpowered submarine entered service on Friday the defence ministry said at a time of growing arms control tensions between Moscow and the West | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-submarine/russian-nuclear-powered-sub-enters-service-amid-arms-control-fears-idUSKBN23J1KO | 2020-06-13 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin issued a rare joint statement on Saturday commemorating a 1945 World War Two linkup of U.S. and Soviet troops on their way to defeat Nazi Germany as an example of how their countries can cooperate | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin issued a rare joint statement on Saturday commemorating a 1945 World War Two linkup of U.S. and Soviet troops on their way to defeat Nazi Germany as an example of how their countries can cooperate | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-russia-jointstatement/trump-and-putin-issue-rare-joint-statement-promoting-cooperation-idUSKCN2270SK | 2020-04-26 |
| Oil majors operating large production sharing deals in the exSoviet states of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have been previously excluded from any governmentimposed production decisions because such foreign investment is highlyprized | Neutral | Azerbaijans BPled AzeriChiragGuneshli project will have to cut output sharply from May for the first time ever as the country moves to meet its commitment under a global deal to cut production four sources told Reuters on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil-azerbaijan/azerbaijan-imposes-oil-cuts-on-bp-led-fields-sources-idUSKCN225328 | 2020-04-24 |
| Russia abandoned communism when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 but the tomb remains a popular attraction among tourists and Russian communists | Positive | MOSCOW Dozens of Russian communists defied Moscows coronavirus lockdown on Wednesday by marching across Red Square to lay flowers outside Vladimir Lenins tomb to mark 150 years since the birth of the Bolshevik leader | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-lenin-anniversary-russia/russian-communists-defy-lockdown-with-red-square-parade-for-lenins-150th-idUSKCN22423L | 2020-04-23 |
| After beating the Soviet Union Scotland New Zealand and Argentina Brazil needed a draw against Italy to move into the semifinals | Neutral | Members of Brazils 1982 World Cup squad have reunited to ask their compatriots to work together and donate money to help the countrys overcrowded favelas avoid the worst ravages of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-soccer-brazil/soccer-1982-brazil-team-reunite-to-help-fight-covid-19-idUSKCN21S1OD | 2020-04-11 |
| Ahead of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two the Soviet military campaign has become a highly sensitive subject for Moscow | 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 |
| 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 |
| Russia formally abandoned communism when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 but Lenins tomb remains popular with tourists Russian communists and visitors from Russias regions | Positive | MOSCOW Russia has closed Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenins tomb on Moscows Red Square to the public the Kremlin guard service said on Wednesday the latest Russian tourist attraction to shut down amid coronavirus fears | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-lenin/russia-closes-lenins-tomb-on-red-square-amid-coronavirus-fears-idUSKBN2152OK | 2020-03-19 |
| The Kremlin wall necropolis where Soviet leaders such as Josef Stalin are buried is part of the same tourist experience and will also be closed | Negative | MOSCOW Russia has closed Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenins tomb on Moscows Red Square to the public the Kremlin guard service said on Wednesday the latest Russian tourist attraction to shut down amid coronavirus fears | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-lenin/russia-closes-lenins-tomb-on-red-square-amid-coronavirus-fears-idUSKBN2152OK | 2020-03-19 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Another former Soviet republic Moldova is an observer | Neutral | TASHKENT Uzbekistan will become an observer in the Russialed Eurasian Economic Union before deciding if it wants to become a full member of the trade bloc the Tashkent government said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-uzbekistan-russia-trade/uzbekistan-to-become-observer-in-russia-led-trade-bloc-idUSKBN20U0E2 | 2020-03-07 |
| 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 |
| The agency and the former Soviet republics foreign ministry could not be immediately reached for comment | Negative | DUSHANBE The government of Tajikistan has instructed airlines and travel agencies to stop selling tickets to nationals of 35 countries including the United States Britain China Japan and Iran industry sources said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-tajikistan/tajikistan-shuts-border-to-nationals-of-35-countries-sources-idUSKBN20P28G | 2020-03-03 |
| The 29yearold who arrived in the former Soviet nation on Friday went to a doctor because he was not feeling well the prime minister added | Neutral | YEREVAN Armenia reported its first coronavirus infection on Sunday in a citizen returning from neighboring Iran Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in a post on Facebook | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-armenia/armenia-reports-first-coronavirus-infection-idUSKBN20O1A5 | 2020-03-01 |
| Seventyfive years after the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops world leaders and activists have called for action against rising antiSemitism | Negative | WARSAW The Auschwitz Memorial criticized Amazon on Sunday for fictitious depictions of the Holocaust in its Prime series and for selling books of Nazi propaganda | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-auschwitz/amazon-in-holocaust-row-about-hunters-series-anti-semitic-books-idUSKCN20H0JA | 2020-02-24 |
| Bulgaria a close satellite of Moscow during Soviet times declined to join its allies in the European Union and NATO in expelling Russian diplomats over the Skripal case in 2018 | Negative | SOFIA Bulgarian prosecutors on Friday named the three Russians they have charged with the attempted murder of three Bulgarians whose poisoning is being investigated for possible links with the 2018 nerveagent attack on exRussian spy Sergei Skripal | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-bulgaria-russia-poisoning/bulgaria-names-russians-charged-with-poisoning-linked-to-skripal-case-idUSKBN20F2GL | 2020-02-22 |
| 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 |
| MOSCOW Its a refurbished Sovietstyle sanatorium but there are no visitors staff wear decontamination suits and riot police stand guard outside in temperatures of around 15 Celsius | Neutral | MOSCOW Its a refurbished Sovietstyle sanatorium but there are no visitors staff wear decontamination suits and riot police stand guard outside in temperatures of around 15 Celsius | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-china-health-russia-quarantine/from-russia-with-cabin-fever-coronavirus-evacuees-compare-notes-idUSKBN2012E3 | 2020-02-08 |
| 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 |
| Despite periodic strains in their postSoviet ties however Russia remains Bulgarias biggest energy supplier | Positive | SOFIA Bulgaria expelled two Russian diplomats who prosecutors suspect were involved in espionage and gave them 48 hours to leave the Balkan country the foreign ministry said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-bulgaria-russia/bulgaria-expels-two-russian-diplomats-for-espionage-idUSKBN1ZN10K | 2020-01-25 |
| 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 | Negative | 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 |
