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On Thursday, the European Court of Human Rights made its first ruling on Russia's war in Chechnya, BBC reports . The verdict, which rul...

Great fortunes are made by catering to the basic needs of people. This is a fundamental economic fact. What all people need is what all peop...

Earlier this week, Ukrainian Socialist leader Moroz again proclaimed the death of the Orange Coalition and the formation of a new coalition ...

The 2006 Riga Pride Parade , planned for tomorrow, seems to become a repetition of last year's chaos and homophobic protests in the Latv...

Last Tuesday, Lithuania's Parliament - the Seimas - voted for Gediminas Kirkilas as new Prime Minister. This effectively marks the end ...

Today, a court in Minsk sentenced Belarus opposition leader and former presidential candidate Alyaksandr Kozulin to five and a half years...

According to the New York Times , Washington is about to broker a deal with Moscow on Russian storage of US nuclear waste. In exchange, the ...

According to Interfax , Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev was killed by Russian special forces in Ingushetia last night. Nikolai Patrushev...

On Thursday, at least eight people were killed in an explosion in Tiraspol, the capital of Transnistria, a breakaway region of Moldova, BBC ...

After July 1, the imposition of a new law on liquor combined with usual bureaucratic tardiness threaten to dry up the Russian wine market by...