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Russia’s Top Bankruptcy Expert Gunned Down
On the morning of Wednesday, April 28, the former head of Russia's Federal Bankruptcy Service, Georgy Tal, was shot on the street outside his office in downtown Moscow. The 48-year-old Tal headed the Federal Bankruptcy Service from January 1998 to February 2001, and helped write... MORE
Youth Group Wants To Extend President’s Term
On April 29, representatives of a recently-formed youth movement filed documents with the Moscow City Election Commission to register an initiative group whose aim would be drumming up support for holding a national referendum on whether to extend the presidential term from four to ten... MORE
The Eu’s Enlargement; Russia Plays Bridesmaid
In the mid-1980s then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev made the building of a "common European home" the central plank in a radical new foreign policy initiative aimed at drawing Western European governments closer to Moscow while simultaneously undermining the NATO alliance and broader ties between... MORE
Russians Condemn Latvia For Convicting Wwii-era Partisan
The end of April saw a ratcheting up of tensions between Russia and Latvia. This happened despite the fact that Russia and the EU agreed on April 27 to extend their Partnership and Cooperation Agreement to the ten new EU member states (see previous article).... MORE
Pressure Grows To Pull Ukraine’s Troops Out Of Iraq
On April 28 the Ukrainian contingent in Iraq lost an additional two soldiers, bringing its total to three. These most recent deaths followed the kidnapping of five Ukrainian citizens working for the Russian company Interenergoservis in Baghdad. Some 1,700 Ukrainian troops are based in the... MORE
Unknown Group Draws Attention Of Tajik Authorities
On April 12, in the Isfara region in the north of Tajikistan, the special services detained twenty people suspected of committing a range of aggravated criminal acts motivated by racial and religious hatred. These acts included both the murder of the leader of the local... MORE