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| Features  Tajikistan's Official Calm Belies Potential Prison Break Crisis Days after a major prison break in the Tajik capital, the whereabouts of some two dozen prisoners -- many of whom were convicted of planning to overthrow the government -- remains unclear. More  Young Guard Attacked For Fake Video The pro-Kremlin youth organization Young Guard are being criticized for a video of them fighting Russian wildfires that many bloggers and journalists claim is fake. More  Russian President Responds To Outcry Over Contested Highway Plan In a rare case of the Russian authorities responding to popular protests, President Dmitry Medvedev has reportedly ordered the suspension of plans to build a highway through a forest outside Moscow. More  North Korea's Kim Reported In China North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong Il is thought to be visiting his country's close ally, China, but the purpose of the visit remains shrouded in mystery. More  Armenia Warns Azerbaijan Over New UN Resolution Armenia's Foreign Ministry has warned Azerbaijan against trying to push through the United Nations General Assembly a fresh resolution that accuses Yerevan of occupying Azerbaijani lands and thereby hampering a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. More  Iraq Sunni Militia Leader Fears U.S. Exit A leader of a government-backed Sunni militia in Iraq fears they will be targeted by Al-Qaeda once the U.S. fully withdraws its military. More  Iraqi Forces On Alert As U.S. Withdraws Iraq is going through a critical stage that requires the utmost vigilance in view of the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces More  Russian Governor Withrdaws Lawsuit After Winning Case A Russian regional governor has withdrawn a libel lawsuit against the mother of a dead soldier -- just days after winning the case. More  Iraq Confirms Tentative Agreement With Iran On Pipeline Iraq's oil minister has confirmed that Iraq and Iran have agreed "in principle" to build a pipeline to transport gas from Iran through Iraq to Syria's Mediterranean coast More  Iranian Cleric Decries Prison Torture A reformist Iranian cleric describes as "shocking" a recent letter by a political prisoner detailing ill-treatment in jail. More  Few Turkmen, Uzbek Students Return To Kyrgyz University The rector of the largest university in Osh says many students from Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are not expected to return to school this semester. More  Iran Launches New Crackdown On Universities The Iranian government says it will restrict the number of students admitted to humanities programs at universities More  Kazakh Journalists Covering Sufi Trial Detained On August 26, police in Almaty detained a group of journalists and kept them at a police station for three hours without any explanation. More  Why Is WikiLeaks So Focused On The United States? Is WikiLeaks being mindful enough of its own public image? With yet another U.S.-centered leak, is the organization delivering on its goal of being a global whistle-blower? More  Are Iran's Opposition Leaders Billionaires? Iran's intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi, has repeated the accusation that the leaders of the opposition Green Movement received a billion dollars from Western countries. More  If The Hospital Is Bad In Russia, Then Blog It It gets kind of old to hear the oft-repeated idea that bloggers are somehow leeching of the decaying corpse of good-old honest mainstream journalism. More |
