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Jan 10, 2025 | 
kesq.com | Christian Edwards |Anna Chernova
By Christian Edwards and Anna Chernova, CNN(CNN) - In the capital of Transnistria, a self-declared microstate sandwiched between Moldova and Ukraine, the festive New Year's lights have gone dark ahead of schedule. This separatist sliver of Moldova will run out of energy in three weeks, the head of its Russia-backed government has said.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
wkow.com | Eyad Kourdi |Christian Edwards |Nic Robertson |Avery Schmitz
(CNN) - Syrian rebels have declared the capital Damascus "liberated" after entering the city to scant resistance from regime forces, while claiming President Bashar al-Assad has fled the capital, losing his decades-long grip on power. "Damascus has been liberated and the tyrant Bashar al-Assad has been overthrown, and oppressed prisoners in regime prisons have been released," a spokesperson said, reading from a statement on state television on Sunday, surrounded by roughly a dozen other rebels.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
cbs58.com | Eyad Kourdi |Christian Edwards |Nic Robertson |Avery Schmitz
By Eyad Kourdi, Christian Edwards, Nic Robertson and Avery Schmitz(CNN) - Syrian rebels have declared the capital Damascus "liberated" after entering the city to scant resistance from regime forces, while claiming President Bashar al-Assad has fled the capital, losing his decades-long grip on power.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
kesq.com | Christian Edwards
By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) - Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has recalled her impression of Donald Trump during his first term in the White House, saying the new American president-elect showed a "fascination with the sheer power" of strongmen like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "The way he spoke about Putin, the way he spoke about the North Korean (leader) - obviously apart from critical remarks he made - there was always a kind of fascination...
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
kesq.com | Christian Edwards |Darya Tarasova |Lauren Kent
By Christian Edwards, Darya Tarasova and Lauren Kent, CNN(CNN) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised US President-elect Donald Trump as an "intelligent and experienced" politician capable of finding "solutions," as tensions between Moscow and the West ramp up over the war in Ukraine.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
kvia.com | Christian Edwards |Kostyantyn Gak
Originally Published: 19 NOV 24 07:15 ETUpdated: 19 NOV 24 08:48 ETBy Christian Edwards and Kostyantyn Gak, CNN(CNN) — Ukraine has fired US-made ATACMS missiles into Russia’s Bryansk region, Russia’s Defense Ministry said, in a major escalation on the 1,000th day of war. The attack comes just two days after the Biden administration gave Kyiv the green light to use the longer-range American weapons against targets inside Russia. Kyiv did not immediately respond to the report.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
kesq.com | Christian Edwards
By Christian Edwards, CNN(CNN) - Moldovans vote in the second round of a crucial presidential election on Sunday, which could determine whether the post-Soviet country stays its course toward Europe or lurches back into the Kremlin's orbit. Maia Sandu, the pro-Western president, is seeking reelection after guiding Moldova closer to the European Union than ever before while Russia's war in Ukraine raged near its eastern border.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
kesq.com | Christian Edwards
By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) - Georgia's President Salome Zourabichvili has called on citizens to protest the results of a disputed election in an attempt to save the country's "European future." In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Zourabichvili - a pro-Western figure whose powers are largely ceremonial - said the election had been marred by unprecedented levels of interference, which aimed to knock the post-Soviet country from its path toward Europe and keep it within the...
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
kesq.com | Christian Edwards |Niamh Kennedy
By Christian Edwards and Niamh Kennedy, CNN(CNN) - Georgia's President Salome Zourabichvili has condemned "deeply troubling incidents of violence unfolding at various polling stations" asthe country votes in a crucial parliamentary election. Voting opened early Saturday in the election, seen as a stark choice between Russia and the West.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
kesq.com | Christian Edwards
By Christian Edwards, CNN(CNN) - At the Joseph Stalin Museum in Gori, the small Georgian town where the Soviet dictator was born, a line of guides is waiting to tell you the story of the local boy who made it big. They can list the birthdays of Stalin's family and recite the poems he wrote as a schoolboy (for Stalin "could have been a poet, but chose to be a great leader"). But on other things, they are less exact.
