 RFE/RL Headlines 12/09/2009 22:37:56 PM A daily digest of the English-language news and analysis written by the staff of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |
| News  Petraeus: Afghan Progress Will Be Slower Senior U.S. military officers and diplomats spent a second day on Capitol Hill today telling Congress how they view the war in Afghanistan, now that President Barack Obama has announced that he's sending 30,000 more troops to the fight. More  Perm Government Resigns Over Club Fire A fire that killed 124 people at a Russian nightclub last week claimed its first political casualties when the Perm regional government resigned. More  Top Moldovan Communist Quits Party A leading Moldovan communist deputy who is quitting the party's parliamentary group says other communist lawmakers could be poised to leave the party, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. More  Turkmen Ban Import Of Older Cars The Turkmen government is banning the import of cars and trucks made before 2000, RFE/RL's Turkmen Service reports. More  New Probe In Saipov Murder Case The Kyrgyz Supreme Court has ruled that the case of slain journalist Alisher Saipov should be sent back to an Osh city court for further investigation, but his father had hoped it would be sent to a different jurisdiction, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. More Police and security forces have killed three insurgents in the North Caucasus town of Ust-Dzheguta, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. More  China Exile Cites Uyghur Effect World Uyghur Congress President Rebiya Kadeer has told RFE/RL she is urging European politicians to focus on the fate of Uyghurs in China's Xinjiang Province who continue to be persecuted and jailed, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. More The Moscow Municipal Court has given lengthy prison terms to two men found guilty of organizing terrorist attacks in the Russian capital 10 years ago, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. More  Kyrgyz Police Arrest Afghan With Heroin Police in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh have arrested an Afghan citizen who was reportedly carrying six kilograms of heroin, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. More  Activists Want Lenin Monument Removed Activists from the unregistered Belarusian Christian Democracy Party (BHD) began collecting signatures today for a petition to remove a large Lenin bust in the western Belarusian town of Navahradak, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports. More  Five Iran Videos You Must Watch Iran's Green movement continues to use mobile and web technology to get its message out. More  Kalashnikov In The Kremlin RFE/RL’s Russian Service has been reporting steadily in recent weeks about the inroads that a certain Maksim Kalashnikov has been making in getting his views on Russia’s political situation to the highest levels in the Kremlin. In October, at the personal request of President Dmitry Medvedev, Kalashnikov laid out his ideas in a long meeting with presidential chief of staff Sergei Sobyanin. Sobyanin later said he had forwarded Kalashnikov’s ideas to the Russian Academy of Sciences for its recommendation. More  Lost In Transition On December 10, 1989, protesters in the People's Republic of Mongolia issued their first call for democratic change. Three months later, the vast Asian nation peacefully broke with its communist past and quickly evolved from an isolated satellite to post-Soviet Asia's singular success story. So how has it fared since then? More  Acting On Poverty, Climate 'More Important Than Ever' The noted economist offers his take on which countries are best at fighting global warming. More  WHO Announces 'Very Good News' On Cures For the past 15 years, the UN's World Health Organization (WHO) has been focusing on tuberculosis, or TB, with a goal of curing people already infected and eventually eradicating the disease. The organization says new data shows it has exceeded that goal. More  The Apocalypse, Messianism, And Ahmadinejad Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad and his supporters believe the best preparation for the Mahdi's reappearance is the consolidation of an absolutist regime that brutally suppresses all real and potential opposition. More  Kazakhstan OKs New Security Chief The Kazakh Senate today approved Adil Shayakhmetov as the new head of the country's National Security Committee (KNB), RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. More |
