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Russia Pledges Money To Support HIV, TB Programs In Neighboring Countries
"Russia plans to step up its international role in fighting infectious disease across eastern Europe and central Asia, in what some observers see as the latest effort by the Kremlin to reassert its political influence over its former Soviet neighbors," the Financial Times reports. "Arkady Dvorkovich, economic aide to President Dmitry Medvedev, pledged money for a new international development agency to support programs against HIV and tuberculosis (TB)" at the Millennium Development Goal 6 Forum hosted in Moscow last week, the newspaper notes.
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