Reading Time: 2 minutesRussians say that the modernization they want will involve a reduction in the size of the state bureaucracy, independence for the courts, honest...
Reading Time: < 1 minutePolitical parties started work today on a Code of Conduct ahead of the parliamentary election at a meeting supported by the OSCE...
Reading Time: 2 minutesDeputy Prime Minister Victor Osipov today had a meeting with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigoriy Karasin, the governments communications and press relations department...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUkrainian police have detained several nationalists for protesting a visit to Kyiv by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA Serbian journalist and RFE/RL contributor known for his strong stance against nationalism and sports hooliganism was attacked on Saturday night in...
Reading Time: 3 minutesFreedom of speech does not exist in Russia today, Aleksey Simonov of the Glasnost Defense Foundation says, but glasnost does – and it...
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe bombing of the Baksan Dam in Kabardino-Balkaria this week shows both that terrorism is not on the wane in the Russian Federation,...
Reading Time: 4 minutesOn July 21, a group of militants in Kabardino-Balkaria launched a bold attack on the Baksan hydroelectric plant, ransacked the facility and rendering...
Reading Time: 3 minutesGarbage bins and paved streets are things that many of us take for granted. They might not seem like much, but their absence...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic today condemned brutal attack on a Serbian journalist, Teofil Pancic.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East and Central Europe...
Reading Time: 5 minutesSupporters of Mintimir Shaimiyev and Murtaza Rakhimov long suggested that only those two leaders were able to restrain the nationalist movements in Tatarstan...
Reading Time: 3 minutesPatriarch Kirill’s current visit to Ukraine is having the opposite effect he intends. Instead of generating pressure for an end to the independent...
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs expected, last night Pakistani Prime Minister Raza Yousuf Gilani extended the term of the popular chief of Pakistans army, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOSCE-supported training courses on the role of civil society in resolving environmental issues and improving waste management and pollution control in the...
Reading Time: 2 minutesSuch housing arrangements were the product of the rapid urbanization of the Russian population during Soviet times and the inability and unwillingness of...
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn yet another indication that the FSB is regaining ever more of the powers the KGB had in Soviet times, officials at the...
Reading Time: 5 minutesAs it was expected, the decree issued by Interim President Mihai Ghimpu by which June 28th was declared Remembrance Day of Soviet occupation...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRussian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Vyktor Yanukovych held talks on a wide-range of issues Saturday in Ukraine.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe International Court of Justices (ICJ) ruling that Kosovos unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia was legal is of direct interest to other...