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2013.
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IN SEPTEMBER, Rossotrudnichestvo, which I have the honor and pleasure to head, turned five. On September 6, 2008, under Decree No. 1315 of the president of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation was established within the system of state executive bodies of the Russian Federation. In accordance with the decree, the new agency was established "with the aim of enhancing the effectiveness of state administration in the area of international collaboration" as a successor to the Russian Center for International Scientific and Cultural Cooperation (Roszarubezhtsentr) at the Russian Foreign Ministry.
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088527
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2009.
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In the 20th century, the world reconciled itself to the Soviet Union's influence in the Caucasus and the Central Asian Region. The West, particularly the U.S., wanted to be a major if not the main actor in this power game after the collapse of the Soviet system. Its first goal, certainly, was to gain control over the wealthy oil and natural gas reserves of the Caucasian and Central Asian nations, but its next goal was no less significant: diverting oil around Russia and preventing Moscow from reasserting its control over the Caucasus and Central Asia. Georgia was preferred as the primary pro-Western state for secure transportation of the huge oil and gas prosperity of the neighboring regions. So when the main Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline for transporting oil through Georgia was completed in 2005, it was hailed as the most important success U.S. strategy had scored over Russia and helped to diversify its energy deliveries, given the instability of the Middle East.
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