Moscow / Ashgabat / Tokyo / St. Petersburg / Tashkent / Dushanbe / Astana / /
Company
Japan-Russia Trade / Toyota Motors / USSR/Russia Trade / Investment Promotion Organization / Gazprom / Sibneft / Central Asia Uzbekistan Kazakhstan / Republic / /
Continent
Europe / /
Country
Turkmenistan / Estonia / Tajikistan / Latvia / Japan / Afghanistan / Moldova / China / India / Belarus / Germany / Armenia / Kazakhstan / Uzbekistan / Russia / Azerbaijan / United States / Soviet Union / Georgia / Ukraine / South Korea / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Voting Result / Person Travel / Person Communication and Meetings / Employment Change / Judicial Event / /
transportation / abundant energy resources / natural gas / proposed law / manufacturing production / oil pipeline / energy / gross domestic product / crude oil / law changing / government-owned natural gas / manufacturing / economic infrastructure / public services / healthcare / oil / energy resources / natural gas development projects / high technology solutions / /
NaturalFeature
Four Islands / Caucasus / Shikotan / Habomai / Four Northern Islands / Kamchatka peninsula / /
Organization
General Assembly / State Committee / Asian Cooperation Organization / Commonwealth of Independent States / Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force / House of Representatives / Organization for Security / AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation / Investment Promotion Organization / Shanghai Cooperation Organization / Joint Staff office of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces / Russian Navy / Cabinet Public Relations Office / Japan-Russia Trade and Investment Promotion Organization / Government of Japan / Committee on Foreign Affairs / European Union / Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation / Japan-Russia InterGovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Issues / Russian government / G8 / Akaev administration / Cabinet Secretariat / Ministry of Finance / Association of Southeast Asian Nations / UN General Assembly / Karimov administration / United Nations / Central Asia Uzbekistan Kazakhstan President Karimov’s administration / Russian Border Service / Russian Far East Military District / Russian Federation on Statistics / /
Person
Junichiro Koizumi / Maskhadov / Morihiro Hosokawa / Vladimir Putin / Khodorkovsky / Boris Yeltsin / Bakiev / Akhmetov / Sergei Lavrov / Niyazov / Sharifov / Margarian / Nazarbaev / Bush / Rakhmonov / Schröeder / /
Minister of State / Prime Minister / President / Senior Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Aisawa / Chancellor / Head / Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs Itsunori Onodera / Minister for Foreign Affairs / Official / Presidential Executive Office / Chief of Staff / First Deputy Prime Minister / incumbent President / namely Minister for Foreign Affairs Nobutaka Machimura / Colonel-General / translator / Chief of Staff of the Presidential / Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs Fukushima / leader / Chairman / Commander / Deputy Prime Minister / Foreign Relations President / /
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