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| Features  Kyrgyzstan: Anatomy Of A Conflict Kyrgyzstan's interim government has blamed supporters of ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiev for the recent unrest in the country's south. But a closer examination of the violence, and the events leading up to it, paint a more complicated picture. More  Clinton Tells Ukraine That Door To NATO Open In Kyiv, the first stop of her whirlwind tour through Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that “NATO’s door remains open” to Ukraine. She also expressed U.S. support for Ukraine’s stalled IMF loan bid, and underscored the need for a vibrant, independent Ukrainian press. More  Tajikistan Agrees To Help Kyrgyzstan The head of the Commonwealth of Independent States' security organization says Tajikistan has agreed to help stabilize southern Kyrgyzstan. More  Iraqi Politicians Upbeat On Gov't Talks Senior Iraqi politicians say a recent meeting between Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his main election rival, former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, has given a major push forward in ongoing talks on forming a new government. More  European Broadcasters Call For Media Freedoms European public service broadcasters today called on all governments to respect freedom of expression and freedom of the media. More Opposition activists have again gathered outside Russia's State Duma to collect signatures in protest against a bill that would increase the powers of the Federal Security Service (FSB). More  Russian Hunger Strike Over School Closures Ends A weeklong hunger strike by teachers and parents has ended after officials in the central Russian region of Ulyanovsk promised not to close two schools. More  Moldovan Leader Defiant In Russia Row Acting Moldovan President Mihai Ghimpu has said Russia should "respect the will of the Moldovans" and stop criticizing a new national holiday marking Moldova's occupation by Soviet troops at the beginning of World War II, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. More A Kyrgyz journalists' organization says several journalists were attacked while covering the ethnic violence in the southern cities of Jalal-Abad and Osh last month. More More  U.S. House Panel Backs Aid To Karabakh The House Foreign Aid Subcommittee also said in its decision on June 30 that the administration of President Barack Obama should also slightly increase U.S. aid to Armenia and maintain absolute parity in separate military funding for Yerevan and Baku. More  Will Lukashenka Or Won't He? All eyes are on Belarus President Alyaksandr Lukashenka as he and his Russian and Kazakh counterparts prepare for a July 5 meeting in Astana to kick off a customs union. More  Russians Enjoy A Newly Paved Road Gogol famously said that Russia has two problems: fools and roads. This hilarious video evidence from Cheboksary is making the rounds. More  The Complicated Casualty Of Kosovo It certainly complicates Serbian President Boris Tadic's spin on events that the victim who died in the attack was a Bosniak resident of Bosnjacke Mahale. More  Are Taliban On Fast Track Off UN Blacklist? The "1267 blacklist," as it has become known, remained a minor issue until last year. That's when it became clear that without serious attempts at reconciliation in Afghanistan, it will be impossible for the government of President Hamid Karzai to bring any meaningful improvement in the security situation and stabilization of the country. More  thirtysomething, or Fathers And Children The scandal of the 11 accused Russian “illegals” who were purportedly unregistered agents of the Russian government in the United States (working for the Foreign Intelligence Service or SVR) has certainly generated a lot of chuckling and more than a few bewildered, if bemused, shrugs of the shoulder. No can quite seem to figure out why the Russians would put so much effort into something that never got near any significant secrets. More  The 'Third Force' And Reconciliation The first thing that struck me was that both communities believed there was a “third force” behind the rioting and killing that had just taken place. Exactly who this third force was no one could say for sure. Maybe it was former President Kurmanbek Bakiev and his family. Maybe criminal organizations or Islamic militants or local leaders or businessmen. More  Is This Espionage 2.0? The media following the intriguing story of the FBI’s roll-up of a network of alleged Russian spies have been obsessed with the sexy Facebook pictures of one of the accused, Anna Chapman. Yet few have bothered to look past the sensational shots to her list of friends to see the kind of network a would-be spy might create using today’s free and easy social media tools. More  Lahore On High Alert After Attacks The Pakistani city of Lahore is on high alert today after two suicide bombers carried out the latest attack on a religious site extremists consider un-Islamic. The attack on the Sufi shrine killed more than 40 people. More |
