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Azerbaijan and Armenia swap prisoners after peace deal

The exchange was facilitated by Russian peacekeepers who have been deployed to Nagorno-Karabakh for five years under the peace deal.

Russian historian who exposed Stalin's crimes cleared of child pornography

Yuri Dmitriev's real crime, according to activists, was dedicating himself to documenting Stalin's 1937-38 Great Terror and discovering a mass grave with up to 9,000 bodies dating from the period.

Tajikistan to get $230M from China for new parliament building

China seeks to increase ties in the ex-Soviet Central Asia region which Russia has traditionally viewed as its backyard.