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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held military drills in Tajikistan recently.  Russia, China, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan participated in the event.  Some exercises focused on thwarting potential terrorist attacks that stem from Afghanistan, a southern neighbor to SCO members.  The remaining member of the SCO, Uzbekistan, declined to participate.

Russia made it clear that foreign influence had taken part in the domonstrations that recently occured in Moldova.  Protesters in the capital of Moldova, it is argued, waved Romanian and EU flags.  Russia called on the EU to help protect Moldova from memberstate Romania.