Below is a summary of events in the Commonwealth of
Independent States on May 6:
Armenia:
* Armenia's president signed a decree on appointing singer
Charles Aznavour, of Armenian origin, as the country's
ambassador to Switzerland, an Armenian government spokesman said
Georgia:
* NATO started an exercise in ex-Soviet Georgia despite
Russia's fierce criticism of the drills and following a revolt
at a military base outside the capital Tbilisi the day before
Ukraine:
* Ukraine's national energy company Naftogaz plans to pay
Russian energy giant Gazprom for gas supplied in April,
Ukraine's acting finance minister, Ihor Umansky, said
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