Reading Time: 3 minutesTwenty years to the day after the Congress of Peoples Deputies opened the way to the end of Communist Party of the Soviet...
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe murder of Daghestani Mufti Akhmed Tagayev on Monday has attracted attention to a dangerous trend in Russian society – a rise in...
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Russian government, using both its own structures and others allied with it, is repressing civil society by means of murders, beatings and...
Reading Time: 2 minutesDaghestan now has 50 “permanent representations” in Russian regions and CIS countries to help promote trade and to support the rights and interests...
Reading Time: 3 minutesMinsk’s latest refusal to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia and even more the suggestion by some officials there that Moscow should “compensate” the...
Reading Time: 3 minutesLast week, the residents of Pikalevo, a small city near St. Petersburg, stormed the city administration there, an action that has had the...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRussia will continue rendering humanitarian aid to Transnistria in the third quarter. The sides reached a respective agreement in the course of...
Reading Time: 3 minutesPrime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday laid flowers on the Moscow grave of General Anton Denikin, a White Russian leader whose opposition to the...
Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo Moscow proposals last week – President Dmitry Medvedev’s suggestion that China help develop the Russian Far East and a Duma suggestion that...
Reading Time: 2 minutesGastarbeiters in the Russian Federation are sending approximately 50 percent less money back to their homelands in the CIS than they did six...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Greek Foreign Minster Dora Bakoyannis, expressed deep concern today about North Koreas declared nuclear test and called for a...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his deep sadness over the news of the sudden death of Roh Moo-hyun, the former President of...
Reading Time: 3 minutesAt a time when the opposition in South Ossetia is attempting to get Moscow more involved in political fights there, many Abkhazians, especially...
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs of this writing, May 20, 2009, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reports that H-1B visa numbers are still available...
Reading Time: 2 minutesRussia has rejected a Ukrainian proposal to defer payment on up to $5 billion in gas storage payments as energy talks between the...
Reading Time: 3 minutesUkraines constitutional court has postponed the date of presidential elections from October until January - a move that buys more time for President...
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe director-general of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, has closed the agencys annual conference with a warning that nations must remain vigilant...
Reading Time: 2 minutesA tense summit meeting between Russia and the European Union has failed to provide assurances Europe will not face another mid-winter gas cutoff....
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA man said earlier on Friday to be the first person in Russia to contract the swine flu virus has told RIA...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Moldovan commercial banks are to decrease the interest rates on deposits of private people and legal entities depending on their structure,...