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Locals flee South Ossetian bloodshed More than 1.500 people are being evacuated from the breakaway republic of South Ossetia after the latest artillery exchange with Georgia. The violence claimed the lives of six people and 13 others were injured as tension

Ukraine promises to return stolen Russian gas Ukraine’s government has admitted it illegally siphoned off 1.3 billion cubic metres of Russian gas destined for Western Europe. The gas was taken last year from the pipeline that crosses Ukraine. The statement came...

Nobel prize winner Solzhenitsyn dies at 89 The man credited with exposing the brutality of Stalin’s purges and gulag system has died aged 89. Nobel prize winning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 but returned to Russia in th

McCain: Russia is ‘regressing’ Republican John McCain has condemned Russia's policies, saying that while some of China's actions are regrettable, he doesn't think the country is regressing the way Russia is.

Israeli parents forget daughter at airport It sounds like an Israeli remake of Home Alone. A family rushed through Israel's largest airport on the busiest day of the year to catch a flight to Paris for their holidays. With four children already in tow they had...

Israel using aid to recruit spies, says report Israeli secret police are recruiting Palestinian informers by threatening to bar sick people from receiving medical assistance, an Israeli human rights organisation claims.

Ukraine admits stealing European gas Ukraine’s government has officially acknowledged it illegally appropriated 1.3 BLN cubic metres of gas supposed to be exported from Turkmenistan via Russia to Europe in 2008.

IAEA admits contamination at plutonium lab The International Atomic Energy Agency said its nuclear lab in the Austrian city of Seibersdorf was contaminated after a plutonium sample blew up. The leakage was contained in the building.

Muscovites fight for right to breath According to Time magazine, Russia’s cities of Dzerdzhinsk and Norilsk rank among the world’s top ten most polluted cities. However, more and more Russians are waking up to the problems affecting their environment, with...

Karadzic to enter plea within 30 days The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has appeared before The Hague War Crimes Tribunal for the first time after 13 years on the run. He asked for more time to study the 11 charges brought against him, includin

South Ossetia puts troops on high alert South Ossetia claims Georgia has continued firing at the republic's capital Tskhinvali on Sunday night. Russia’s Ministry of foreign Affairs has warned about the intensifying threat of large-scale military conflict betwe

Russia accuses Georgia of trying to discredit peacekeepers Moscow has accused Tbilisi of trying to discredit Russian peacekeepers by claiming they may have been involved in a shoot-out between Georgia and its breakaway republic South Ossetia.

City rises from ashes after devastating earthquake It's been a year since a devastating earthquake hit the Sakhalin region in Russia's Far East. The disaster left thousands homeless in the town of Nevelsk. But the region is now back on its feet, and building new...

Russian Subs aim for Lake Baikal record The Mir-1 and 2 submersibles have resumed their exploration of Russia's Lake Baikal. It is the first dives since earlier this week when one of the subs was damaged after colliding with a barge during a storm.

Alarming rise in hate crime prompts call for action Human rights activists are calling for new measures to tackle hate crime following the release of figures which show the problem has doubled in the last year alone. The alarming findings reveal that 73 people have died...

Erroneous CNN footage angers Serbs Some of the footage that the CNN news channel used in its Wednesday report on protests in Belgrade over the arrest of war leader Radovan Karadzic was not actually from the Serbian capital.

Night of violence in South Ossetia claims six Shelling in the Georgian breakaway republic of South Ossetia has resumed after a brief period of calm. According to sources in South Ossetia, grenade launchers from the Georgian side are now bombarding the residential...

Shooting kills 6 in South Ossetia Six people have been shot dead by gunmen in Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia and at least twelve others were wounded.

Former Yukos director given life for murders Former Yukos executive Leonid Nevzlin has been sentenced in absentia to life in prison for his role in organising murders and attempted murders. Nevzlin is likely to be jailed only if he ever returns to Russia, though...

Abkhazia says no to international police The President of Abkhazia says he will not tolerate any international police forces on the breakaway republic's territory.

Freedom abolished? U.S. border guards get full access to your data People entering or leaving the U.S. can have their laptops, PDAs, mobile phones and hard copy documents detained for an unspecified period of time with no suspicion of wrongdoing, according to government documents.

A glimpse of Russia’s army in 2030 Russia’s army is planning to rely on nanotechnologies and recruits in its development until 2030. Some future details about army reforms were revealed by an unnamed source in Russia’s Defence ministry to Russian news...

Kosovo starts passport distribution The head of the self-proclaimed state of Kosovo, Khashim Tachi, has handed the first official Kosovo passport to one of his fellow countryman.

U.S. wants closer ties with Russia & China U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates wants a closer alliance with China and Russia, according to reports. The Washington Post quotes a new National Defense Strategy which calls for the military to master ‘irregular’...

Karadzic to enter plea in 30 days The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has appeared before The Hague War Crimes Tribunal for the first time. He has asked for more time to study the 11 charges including genocide, and says he will respond on Aug

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