BBCMon News Diary 5 - 15 Oct 2006 - Former Soviet Union.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

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RUSSIA: UN-Habitat conference on local government and city improvement in Kazan; mayors from across country and counterparts from 11 European and Asian countries taking part (Russian news agency Tatar-Inform)

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KAZAKHSTAN: Fourteenth Kazakhstan International Oil and Gas Exhibition and Conference (KIOGE 2006) in Almaty (Official website)

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RUSSIA: Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar-Spanta visits; begins with tour of St Petersburg and meeting with city governor Valentina Matviyenko; in Moscow, holds talks with counterpart Sergey Lavrov and Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov (5-6) (Russian news agency ITAR-TASS)

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UKRAINE: US Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs visits to meet top officials from presidential secretariat, Foreign Ministry (Ukrainian news agency Interfax-Ukraine)

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ARMENIA: Romanian President Traian Basescu visits; meets counterpart Robert Kocharyan, Prime Minister Andranik Markaryan and Garegin II, Supreme Patriarch and …