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- noun Alternative form of
near abroad .
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This caution was likely compounded by the knowledge that the Russians have quite publicly and deliberately lowered their nuclear threshold over the last fifteen years, have retained substantial nonstrategic nuclear forces, and have developed doctrine to employ such weapons in their near-abroad meaning the former soviet states or satellite nations.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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And nationalism translates as “hands off our near-abroad (which are inherent parts of China anyway so really, really hands off)”.
Matthew Yglesias » Does Silence Demoralize Chinese Human Rights Activists? 2009
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This caution was likely compounded by the knowledge that the Russians have quite publicly and deliberately lowered their nuclear threshold over the last fifteen years, have retained substantial nonstrategic nuclear forces, and have developed doctrine to employ such weapons in their near-abroad meaning the former soviet states or satellite nations.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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Yemen, Jordan, Iraq, Bahrain and the other Gulf states are all individually more important than Libya because they constitute Saudi Arabia's critical near-abroad.
The Middle East Crisis Has Just Begun Robert D. Kaplan 2011
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Please, Moscow, take back your near-abroad empire.
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Russia stayed out of Kyrgyszstan's ethnic troubles this year, suggesting less of an appetite for military interventions in its near-abroad.
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Russia stayed out of Kyrgyszstan's ethnic troubles this year, suggesting less of an appetite for military interventions in its near-abroad.
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Russia, which Mr Obama visits this week, bullies and bribes its near-abroad with as little finesse as usual.
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Russia, which Mr Obama visits this week, bullies and bribes its near-abroad with as little finesse as usual.
The Honeymoom Is Over: Obama reaches the limit of a friendly tone « Sigmund, Carl and Alfred 2009
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But the Russians can still annoy and harass the West, either directly or via the near-abroad countries, where they still have influence.
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