 RFE/RL Headlines 9/7/2009 5:06:15 PM A daily digest of the English-language news and analysis written by the staff of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |
| News  Georgia, Turkey Strike Deal On Jailed Captain Georgia has said it had agreed with Turkey on the fate of a tanker captain jailed for violating a Georgian embargo on breakaway Abkhazia, hinting at his imminent release. More  Moldovan Speaker: No Plan To Unite With Romania New Moldovan parliament speaker Mihai Ghimpu says that he will not press for union with Romania even though he personally believes Moldova and Romania should be one country, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. More  Gongadze Mother Says Son Used In Political Games The mother of late Ukrainian journalist Heorhiy Gongadze says her son's name is being used by Ukrainian officials for political purposes, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. More  Russian Parties Say Shut Out Of Moscow Duma Election The leader of Russia's Right Cause Party has called the Moscow City Duma election campaign a farce, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. More  First Official Kyrgyz Madrasah Opens In South The first official regional Islamic school, or madrasah, has opened in the southern Kyrgyz city of Batken, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. More  St. Petersburg Police Reopen Starovoitova Murder Case Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) is relaunching an investigation into the 1998 murder of Duma Deputy and opposition politician Galina Starovoitova, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. More  Daghestani Journalists, Activists Protest 'Death List' Lawyers, human rights activists, and journalists who have been put on a "death list" distributed at markets and mosques in Daghestan will hold a protest in the capital, Makhachkala, RFE/RL's Russian and North Caucasus services report. More  Former Death-Row Student Flees After Afghan Pardon Twenty-four-year-old Sayed Pervez Kambakhsh was condemned in a hasty northern Afghan trial in January 2008 to die in connection with his purported distribution of an article on women's rights under Islam. Kambakhsh and his relatives have said the case was the result of a vendetta by a local warlord. More  Guards Step In In Iran, the war of words between hard-liners and reformists shows no sign of letting up, with the head of the country's powerful Revolutionary Guard now getting involved. But reformists have struck back, denouncing military "interference" in politics. More  How To Get Ahead In Iranian Advertising Thursdays are peculiar days in Iran. They are part of the weekend, and yet officially they are not. More  Scientists Claim Space Pics Tell Economic Tale In some countries, data on economic output can be patchy, unreliable, or nonexistent. But a new study suggests there's another way to measure economic growth -- by looking at night-lights data from satellites. More  Vladimir Putin Brings Judo Tactics To Poland In a long letter published on the eve of the commemorations in Gdansk marking the 70th anniversary of Nazi Germany's attack on Poland, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gave a clear and definitive official Russian view on the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. It is characteristically clever, meriting careful reading to distil out what he was really saying. More |
