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The Swedish government's decision to accept the disputed gas pipeline NordStream has caused debate. Is the Russian-German gas pipeline ...

For Global Voices Online : Anna Politkovskaya... The mere name evokes images of Moscow's worst public relations nightmare in years - an...

Today, the first more comprehensive analysis of the Russo-Georgian war in August 2008 was published, less than a month after hostilities end...

What have we learnt from the war in Georgia? That is the question addressed in one of the first more comprehensive reports of the recent war...

"The West must be bolder in its response to a newly assertive Russia." This is the proposition made for the upcoming The Economis...

This weekend past saw the first anniversary of the Estonian Bronze Soldier crisis - over the removal of a soviet WW II monument from central...

According to Georgian TV-channel Rustavi 2 , Georgian interior ministry forces today shot down a Russian fighter over the Kodori gorge of br...

A spectre is haunting Eurasia - the spectre of Gerontocracy. All the Powers of new Europe are deserting a divided Union to shy away from thi...

As relations between Russia and the West deteriorate, a growing tendency to misperceive Russian motives is discerned. Russia is not a monoli...

A recent US proposal to deploy a ballistic missile defence system to NATO-members Poland and the Czech Republic, has provoked stern reaction...

Little more than a month after becoming Ukrainian Prime Minister, Viktor Yanukovich, seems poised to break his pledge to president Viktor Yu...

In recent weeks, rumours have been going around that Putin is about to clamp down on Russia's legal and security structures. The reason ...

On Wednesday, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov warned Ukraine and Georgia of joining Nato. During a speech in the Russian State Duma, ...

Chernobyl's lesson is that a state's lies threaten its people and its sovereignty. With this argument, former US ambassador to Kiev,...