It took two years of talk to set up a bus service between the main bit of East Timor and its exclave of Oecussi.

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But Russians still need a stamp in their passports and must pay a fee (although residents of the Kaliningrad exclave have secured special arrangements to visit Poland).

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The oil-rich exclave - home to a large base of the energy firm, Chevron - was chosen to host an Africa Cup of Nations stadium in a bid to boost local investment and infrastructure.

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Russia has proposed staging the tournament in 13 cities, grouped into four clusters that stretch from the exclave of Kaliningrad on the borders of the European Union to Yekaterinburg in the Urals on the fringe of Siberia.

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Since Heidar Aliev, now 76, had a heart operation five months ago in the United States, two museums devoted to his genius have opened, one in the Azeri exclave of Nakhichevan, where he was brought up, the other in a suburb of Baku, Azerbaijan's capital.

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