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BELARUS AUTHORITIES MOVE TO SHUT DOWN MAIN OPPOSITION NEWSPAPER

Belarus's main opposition newspaper, Narodnaya volya, did not appear on the streets of Minsk on October 1. On September 20, its assets were seized by the Lenin district court in Minsk, and the printing house and factory responsible for distributing the newspaper annulled their agreements... MORE

WILL NEW PRIME MINISTER MAKE CRIMEA ANY BETTER?

Following recent events in Kyiv, Ukraine's only autonomous republic, Crimea, has dismissed its prime minister. The two events were not directly linked. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko fired Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in early September because her populism and huge ambitions had started to undermine trust... MORE

IS PORA TURNING AGAINST YUSHCHENKO?

Pora, the non-governmental organization that played a decisive role in Ukraine's Orange Revolution, has adopted a highly critical stance towards the ten-point memorandum signed last week by President Viktor Yushchenko and the leader of the Party of Regions, former prime minister Viktor Yanukovych (see EDM,... MORE

The 2006 Olympics: Assessing the Threat of Unconventional Attacks

Al-Qaeda’s repeated threats to punish Italy for its continued involvement in Iraq, coupled with the organization’s public pronouncements justifying chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) attacks against its adversaries, may culminate in an attack on Turin, site of the 2006 Winter Olympics. Al-Qaeda and its... MORE

QUESTION MARKS MULTIPLY AFTER RUSSIAN PLANE CRASH IN LITHUANIA

Moscow is stonewalling Lithuania's ongoing investigation into the September 15 crash of a Russian Air Force Su-27 fighter jet deep inside Lithuania (see EDM, September 20). Russian military and political authorities ignore or evade Lithuania's questions about Russian radar data on the plane's flight path,... MORE

UKRAINE’S PRIME MINISTER: QUIET MAN IN, FIERY LADY OUT

In the person of Yuriy Yekhanurov, who Ukraine's parliament approved as new prime minister on September 22, President Viktor Yushchenko has acquired a quiet professional who should run the economy while Yushchenko will tackle constitutional reform and next year's parliamentary race. Yekhanurov shares Yushchenko's vision... MORE

SIGNS DEAL WITH YANUKOVYCH TO GET PRIME MINISTER APPROVED

The Ukrainian parliament confirmed Yuriy Yekhanurov as prime minister on September 22 with 289 votes. His candidacy had been rejected by parliament two days earlier when only 223 members of the 450-seat legislature voted for him (see EDM, September 21). Without enough votes on his... MORE

MOSCOW UNDECIDED ON POLICY TOWARD CRISIS-STRICKEN UKRAINE

The gloating heard in the Kremlin over Kyiv's political troubles is giving way to concern and apprehension. While fully realizing the utmost importance of the current Ukrainian events, Russian strategists appear to be at a loss as to how exactly Moscow should act in order... MORE