SHUMEIKO SEES ECONOMIC BENEFITS FROM "NEAR ABROAD"BASES.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 1 Issue: 52

Federation Council chairman Vladimir Shumeiko tolda Tbilisi press conference that Moscow had an economic interestin establishing military bases in the former Soviet republics,Interfax reported July 13. "Russian bases," he said,"help us to keep part of the market" in those countries.

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