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Georgia and Russia Restart Relations Through Border
08:06 02.03.2010 | Former USSR
The only usable land border crossing between Georgia and Russia reopened Monday after more than three years of closure, restoring a vital route between Russia and the strategic South Caucasus.
Viktor Yanukovich Makes First Statements as Ukrainian Ruler
01:32 26.02.2010 | Former USSR
The new Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich pledged Thursday to make his country "a bridge between East and West" after being sworn into office in Kiev.
Yulia Tymoshenko Intends to Stay for Next Term as PM
07:27 25.02.2010 | Former USSR
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko withdrew her appeal case against the elections results from the Supreme Administrative court and the court has closed the case. But she has not conceded.
Russian Military Base in Abkhazia is an Understood Thing
16:38 17.02.2010 | Former USSR
President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia is to place a permanent military base in Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia.
Viktor Yanukovych Is Suspended from Active Ruling the Ukraine
16:09 17.02.2010 | Former USSR
Politics don't let Ukranian people to restars new life in old regime and have a rest from election fuss.
Ukraine is Kept in Suspence after Presidential Election
04:32 09.02.2010 | Former USSR
Ukraine is waiting for Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to either contest results from Sunday's presidential election, or accept defeat and quit.
Ukrainians to Vote for a New Ruler This Weekend
05:25 05.02.2010 | Former USSR
It is the last day of campaigning before Ukraine shall elect a new president to replace Viktor Yushenko, the man who led the Orange Revolution five years ago and lost his popularity through breaking promises and debasing the political image of the Ukraine.

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World

Nearly 50 countries helped CIA torture prisoners
Nearly 50 countries helped CIA torture prisoners
USA considers scenario of war with China
USA considers scenario of war with China
Japan declares propaganda war on China, Korea and Russia
Japan declares propaganda war on China, Korea and Russia
Israel shocked with the move of Iran and Argentina
Israel shocked with the move of Iran and Argentina
Pope Benedict XVI understands demands of today s world
Pope Benedict XVI understands demands of today's world
Fidel Castro: Now and forever
Fidel Castro: Now and forever
Ukraine Fails to Elect a New Ruler
08:00 18.01.2010 | Former USSR
Ukraine's presidential election is set for a second round run-off after partial results showed no candidate would win more than 50% of the vote. Analysts charge the results off to the Orange Revolution consequences.
Ukraine: Chronicle of Political Events on the Eve of Elections 2010
13:14 17.01.2010 | Former USSR
Ukraine is holding a presidential election, with candidates including President Viktor Yushchenko, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and former prime minister and opposition leader Viktor Yanukovich.
Resumption of Air Traffic between Russia and Georgia Goes Hard
14:49 29.12.2009 | Former USSR
Russia has authorised the first direct flights from the Georgian capital of Tbilisi since the two countries' brief war in August 2008, the transport ministry said.
Russia Being Honest with U.S. on Missile Issue
12:38 24.12.2009 | Former USSR
Russia openly admits that development of strategic offensive forces is essential part of its defensive politics against external aggression.
Horrible Firework Rages in Russian Province
13:31 13.11.2009 | Former USSR
Huge explosions and fire rocked a Russian ammunition depot Friday, leaving dozens of people missing and prompting the evacuation of thousands of civilians nearby, officials and Russian news agencies said.
Ukraine Suffers From Political Games More Than From Pandemic Disease
15:05 02.11.2009 | Former USSR
Ukraine is in a panic about so-called swine flu, with officials closing schools, imposing travel restrictions and limiting public gatherings. But in fact in the country many are almost sure that politics make a fuss just to gain more election points.
Russia officially closes its embassy in Georgia and recalls ambassador
08:53 01.10.2008 | Former USSR
The Russian ambassador to Georgia and a group of Russian diplomats left the country yesterday on September 30. The plane with the European Union foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, landed at the airport of Tbilisi in less than an hour. Russia’s ambassador to Georgia, Vyacheslav Kovalenko, and 20 officers of the diplomatic mission and their family...
Russia takes move to show Ukraine its place which is not near NATO
10:08 25.01.2008 | Former USSR
Russia has decided to stop using military radars built during the Soviet era in Ukraine against the background of Kiev’s bid to become a NATO member. Russian lawmakers simultaneously voted to extend another deal calling Ukraine to help maintain Russian ballistic missiles. The move displays strong military ties between Russia and Ukraine

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Georgia: Iran to supply 2 million cubic meters of gas a day
12:26 27.01.2006 | Former USSR
A top Georgian energy official said Friday that Iran has agreed to supply 2 cubic meters (70.6 million cubic feet) of gas a day on an emergency basis to Georgia, which is in the midst of its worst energy crisis in years. The head of Georgia's International Gas Corporation, David Ingorovka, told the Rustavi-2 television channel from Tehran that an...
What is wrong with Ukrainian government?
07:46 12.01.2006 | Former USSR
The Ukrainian government performs its duties without any addition as acting, President Viktor Yushchenko said on Thursday at a government meeting. “The first thing I should like to tell Ukrainian society, the Ukrainian parliament and political forces of the nation, is that the country has a full-fledged government both in the center and in...
Nazarbayev inaugurated for the second time
10:34 11.01.2006 | Former USSR
Nursultan Nazarbayev has been officially inaugurated to the post of president of Kazakhstan. The ceremony took place in the Presidential Palace in the capital Astana, where the chairman of the country's Constitutional Council, Igor Rogov, made an official statement that Nazarbayev had been elected President on the basis of the Constitution and the...
Famed Kyrgyz wrestler shot dead
10:55 10.01.2006 | Former USSR
Gunmen have shot dead well-known Kyrgyz wrestler Raatbek Sanatbayev, who was running for the presidency of the country's Olympic committee. Authorities said Sanatbayev was killed near his home in the capital, Bishkek, on Sunday. Police said two men approached him as he left a shopping center and one of them shot him in the head
Ukraine's prime minister, Cabinet dismissed
09:09 10.01.2006 | Former USSR
Ukraine's parliament dismissed the Cabinet Tuesday over a natural gas deal with Russia that sees Ukraine paying nearly double what it previously paid for gas. Lawmakers in the 450-seat Verkhonva Rada voted 250-50 with two abstentions to fire Yuri Yekhanurov and his Cabinet, but required that the government continue work until a new Cabinet is...
Tonnes of drugs seized in CSTO states
09:22 28.12.2005 | Former USSR
More than 11 tonnes of drugs have been seized in the operation Channel-2005 conducted on territories of member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO). It was said another two-stage operation was conducted on December 5-12 in the CSTO states, comprising Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan
Azerbaijan Airlines suspend flights of Ukrainian-built plane
09:59 26.12.2005 | Former USSR
Azerbaijan's state carrier said Monday it has suspended flights by its one remaining Ukrainian-built An-140 twin-engine turboprop plane after the deadly crash of the other one. All 18 passengers and five crew were killed when the Azerbaijani Airlines An-140 plunged onto the Caspian Sea shore about 30 kilometers (north of the Azerbaijani capital...
No room for nuclear storage facilities in Chernobyl
10:12 20.12.2005 | Former USSR
Ukrainian parliament Speaker Vladimir Litvin has declared that no nuclear storage facilities would be built at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Litvin expressed regret, saying that Viktor Yushchenko's statement to this effect “had been misinterpreted,” the press service of the Ukrainian parliament said on Tuesday. "All I can say is that nothing...
Moscow and Kiev fail to reach gas agreement
09:59 19.12.2005 | Former USSR
Prime ministers from Russia and Ukraine failed to reach a new agreement on natural gas prices on Monday, a spokesman for Russia's state-run gas monopoly said, as a tense dispute between Moscow and Kiev continued. Ukraine's premier, Yuri Yekhanurov, traveled to Moscow to meet face-to-face with his Russian counterpart, Mikhail Fradkov, and try to...
No more Internet dating in Belarus
10:35 14.12.2005 | Former USSR
Belarusian lawmakers on Wednesday passed legislation that would crack down on Internet dating and online spouse searches in the latest of a series of stringent government controls backed by President Alexander Lukashenko. Authorities said the measure, which was passed 101-1 by the subservient lower house of parliament, was intended to help halt...
Ukraine seeks own oil profit
10:25 08.12.2005 | Former USSR
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed confidence Ukraine can afford buying Russian gas at market prices, underscoring the stance taken by Moscow in the "gas conflict" with Kiev. The gas talks with Ukraine should not affect the development of interstate relations between the two countries. This situation should not put "our Ukrainian colleagues...
Extremists detained in Tajikistan
11:54 06.12.2005 | Former USSR
Members of the banned Uzbek Islamic Movement were arrested on Monday in the city of Khudzhand in northern Tajikistan. The men were detained while distributing leaflets calling for a coup d'etat. The town of Khudzhand is an administrative center in the Tajik Sughd region
Fuel being unloaded from Chernobyl reactors
11:47 06.12.2005 | Former USSR
Chernobyl experts have begun unloading radioactive fuel from one of the closed reactors at the nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The remaining fuel in reactor No. 3 and reactor No. 1 made it impossible to start construction of a new shelter over the fourth reactor, destroyed in the 1986 explosion and fire that spewed radiation over much of northern...
George Bush failed offender in Georgian court
08:31 05.12.2005 | Former USSR
The trial of Vladimir Arutyunian, who faces life in prison for allegedly trying to assassinate U.S. President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili in May and for killing a policeman in a shootout before his arrest in July, opened in Tbilisi city court on Monday. Arutyunian has refused to testify before the court and demanded...
Ukraine gets market economy status
09:29 01.12.2005 | Former USSR
The European Union agreed Thursday to recognize Ukraine as a free market economy, a status the republic sought to gain an economic and political foothold in the bloc it wants to join. The prized status, which still must be formalized, is a victory for President Viktor Yushchenko as well as for Ukrainian businesses seeking to trade with Western...
Ukrainians gather in commemoration of Orange Revolution
10:28 22.11.2005 | Former USSR
Crowds of Ukrainians waving orange flags descended on Kiev's main square Tuesday for anniversary celebrations marking the start of the Orange Revolution - the weeks of mass protests over election results that ushered opposition leaders into power.A column of hundreds of Yushchenko's supporters from western Ukraine marched down Kiev's main street...
Democratic Ukraine prepaires for election campaign
10:15 17.11.2005 | Former USSR
Ukraine's legislature overwhelmingly approved a bill Thursday prohibiting state authorities from carrying out inspections of media groups during the upcoming parliamentary election campaign. Parliament also canceled part of a law that had barred the media from editorializing about political forces during the campaign
Opposition alleges fraud in Azerbaijan election
02:10 07.11.2005 | Former USSR
The official vote count and exit polls gave the ruling party the lead in Azerbaijan's parliamentary election Monday, but the opposition vowed to fight to overturn what it called fraudulent results. Hundreds of foreign observers who fanned out across the country to watch the vote were also following the count
Hundreds of Ukrainian taxi drivers rally against high gasoline prices
08:37 03.11.2005 | Former USSR
Hundreds of taxi drivers blocked the entrance to President Viktor Yushchenko's office Thursday to protest high gasoline prices and proposed new regulations they say would benefit unlicensed cab drivers. Gasoline prices are now almost 50 percent higher than at the beginning of 2005, in part due to clumsy government attempts to cap gas prices
Shootout at Tajik border - Afghan smuggler detained
02:29 31.10.2005 | Former USSR
The shootout occurred Sunday in the Farkhor border district when Tajik guards discovered a group of suspected Afghan smugglers who were attempting to cross into Tajikistan. Several of the suspected smugglers managed to escape back into Afghan territory
Lawyers ask for reduced sentences in Uzbek uprising trial as defendants repented
09:45 27.10.2005 | Society
The judges in the trial of 15 men accused of organizing a May uprising in eastern Uzbekistan retreated for final deliberations Thursday, after the defendants repented and said they deserved a death penalty in a carefully orchestrated trial
Ukraine's PM visits Turkmenistan for talks on natural gas supplies
03:25 26.10.2005 | Politics
Ukraine's prime minister headed to Turkmenistan on Wednesday to try to persuade a long-term deal signing on natural gas exports
Police found 5 kilos of heroin found in high-ranking Tajik border guard’s car
10:35 24.10.2005 | Society
Tajikistan police arrested a high-ranking Tajik border guard Monday after heroin was found in his car, an Interior Ministry spokesman said
Uzbek opposition leader arrested for alleged embezzlement
09:00 24.10.2005 | Politics
Uzbek authorities have arrested an opposition leader on embezzlement charges, the Interior Ministry said Monday, after he pushed for the easing of autocratic rule
Azerbaijan's president fires state chemical company CEO
07:45 24.10.2005 | Politics
Azerbaijan's president, Ilham Aliev, on Monday fired Fikret Sadigov the head of the country's largest chemical company, state-owned Azerkimya
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