Reading Time: 2 minutesLocal and international relief workers say continued heavy rainfall has worsened the situation in Pakistan where raging floodwaters have killed more than 1,600...
Reading Time: 2 minutesRescue workers in China are scrambling to save hundreds of people believed to be trapped under buildings and rubble in northwest Gansu province.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFormer Cuban president Fidel Castro has appeared at a special session of parliament for the first time since 2006, when he ceded...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez is urging Colombias rebels to release all their hostages as a way to start peace negotiations with the...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn Afghan rights group says more than 1,300 civilians in Afghanistan have been killed so far this year, an increase of about...
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Turkish Exporters’ Assembly (TIM) announced statistics on Turkish export figures in July 2010. Turkey exported around $9.5 billion in goods, which amounted...
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn July 29, six people from the village of Komsomolskoe in northern Dagestan’s Kizilyurt were abducted by unidentified assailants. On August 1, one...
Reading Time: 3 minutesAhead of the OSCE summit under Kazakhstan’s chairmanship, Russian officials are resurrecting the agenda of “OSCE reforms” to reconfigure the organization in line...
Reading Time: 3 minutesSofia Kalistratova, one of the few Soviet-era attorneys brave enough to represent dissidents in the courtroom, always urged her defendants to follow every...
Reading Time: 5 minutesUnlike the citizens of most countries, Russians cannot say what their country will be like only 20 years from now, what will be...
Reading Time: 4 minutesGONGOs – “government organized non-governmental organizations” – are increasingly being used by the powers that be in Russia to elbow aside genuine NGOs...
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Russian government has pledged to support the country’s metal sector despite allegations of tax dodging. During the past decade, Russian metal companies...
Reading Time: 4 minutesOn July 22, Russian Defense Minister, Anatoliy Serdyukov, signed an order appointing acting commanders in the new operational-strategic commands (OSK’s).
Reading Time: 3 minutesUnidentified gunmen killed a provincial parliamentarian from the Muttahida Qaumi Party (MQM) in Karachi yesterday, sparking a wave of furious rioting that has...
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe decision of Doku Umarov to hand over the leadership of the Caucasus Emirate to Aslanbek Vadalov this past weekend reinforces the continuing...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe United States is concerned by the detention on July 31 of Russian citizens who were participating in rallies throughout Russia to...
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Reading Time: 3 minutesMoscow media have been devoting enormous attention to the nearly 100,000 US documents leaked to the Wikileaks portal, but they have passed over...
Reading Time: 4 minutesJapan, the world’s third largest producer of nuclear energy after the US and France, plans to launch a feasibility study this month to...
Reading Time: 4 minutesOn July 30, the primary news outlet of the Chechen militants, Kavkaz Center, citing its own sources, reported Moscow was preparing a drastic...