 RFE/RL Headlines July 3, 2009 A daily digest of the English-language news and analysis written by the staff of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |
| News  Obama Calls On Russia To Break From The Past Ahead of an upcoming summit, U.S. President Barack Obama says Russia must end "Cold War approaches" to relations, saying Prime Minister Vladimir Putin still has "one foot in the old ways." President Dmitry Medvedev says he's hopeful of finding ways to repair strained ties. More  Ethnic Violence In Ukrainian City Turns Deadly Security measures have been strengthened and a criminal case has been launched after an ethnic conflict left one policeman dead in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Marhanets, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. More Two U.S. construction firms and an Iraqi contractor have won a tender to design and build a multiple-venue sports complex in the Iraqi port city of Basrah, RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq (RFI) reports. More  Chechen Rebel Chief Umarov Alive, Planning Attacks In a telephone call to RFE/RL, veteran Chechen guerrilla leader Doku Umarov says he is alive and planning future attacks on the territory of the Russian Federation. Umarov was reported in early June to have been killed or seriously injured in a special operation. More  Turkmenistan, EU Hold Human Rights Talks Officials from the European Union and Turkmenistan have held a second round of human rights talks in Brussels, RFE/RL's Turkmen Service reports. More  Moldovan NGOs March Against Police Abuse, Torture Activists from several Moldovan human rights groups have held a march in downtown Chisinau to protest police brutality which, they say, in many cases amounts to torture, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. More 'Tell Musavi To Quit The Killings' More  Tanks For Nothing More  The Rise Of Iran's Ultra-Conservatives The hard-line camp of Iran's ruling establishment has so far quashed a major challenge by reformists. But a much greater test may lie ahead. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is ill and a succession battle looms. The hard-liners are unlikely to leave the choice to chance. More  Meet The New Public Face Of Beleaguered Nabucco It's been an up-and-down year for the Nabucco natural gas pipeline. Just as work on the long-stalled project seems set to finally begin, some shift -- usually at the hand of Russian energy giant Gazprom -- alters the commercial landscape and Nabucco's chances appear to recede. But the pipeline's supporters have just selected a big name in European politics to help push the project toward realization -- former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer. More  Iran Says It's Pursuing Doctor Who Helped Dying Neda Iran's police chief says a doctor who was present at the death of a young Iranian woman during opposition street protests in Tehran is under investigation by both Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and by the international policy agency Interpol. Interpol, however, denies any knowledge of the case. More |
