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10/24/2011 7:40:05 PM
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 How Might Saudi Arabia Retaliate Against Iran For Alleged Plot? Iran's alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States on U.S. soil brought swift vows of revenge from Riyadh. So what might Saudi Arabia do, especially given the continued turmoil across the Middle East? More  Global Financial Regulation: A Goal Many Espouse But Can It Be Done? Calls for a more coordinated system of international financial regulation have been growing as the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York inspire similar demonstrations around the world. More  Moscow's Bitter Ex-Boss Luzhkov Lashes Out At Kremlin, Calls United Russia 'Shameful' Longtime Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov was removed from his post just over a year ago following weeks of accusations against him in the Russian media. In an exclusive interview with RFE/RL's Russian Service, Luzhkov gives a rare inside glimpse into the ways of Russian politics and offers a harsh assessment of the ruling United Russia party that he helped found. More  'No Hazard' From Radioactive Plane Leak Officials in the Russian republic of Tatarstan say a radioactive substance found in a baggage compartment in a Moscow-Kazan plane over the weekend posed no health hazard. More  U.S. Ambassador Pulled Out Of Syria Amid Security 'Threats' The State Department said today that the U.S. ambassador to Syria has been pulled out of the country because of "credible threats to his safety." More Thousands of people are facing a second night in freezing temperatures after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit mountainous eastern Turkey on October 23. More  Employees Go Back To Work At Armenian Nuclear Plant After Pay Rise Dozens of employees at Armenia's Metsamor nuclear power plant who quit their jobs last week have agreed to return to work after accepting an offer of a 10-percent pay rise by the government. More  'Arson' Hits Tajik Politician's Factory A cotton-processing plant belonging to a prominent Tajik religious and political figure has been damaged by fire in what he is calling an arson attack. More  Belarusian 'Silent Protester' Jailed An opposition activist in eastern Belarus has been jailed for 10 days for holding a silent protest in which he was the only participant More  Yukos Whistle-Blower In Solitary A jailed former employee of Russia's state property agency is in solitary confinement after telling RFE/RL the Russian authorities orchestrated the fraudulent sale in 2004 of a stake in the oil giant Yukos. More  Calls To Free Former Kyrgyz Officials Some 50 protesters have picketed the building of the Kyrgyz National Philharmonic Orchestra to demand the immediate release of two former security officials on trial over the deaths of protesters during last year's popular uprising.More  Kazakh Communist Party Ban Upheld The Court of Appeals in Almaty has upheld a six-month suspension of the activities of Kazakhstan's Communist Party, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.More  Ecology Activists Campaign In Siberia More than 100 activists gathered in the Siberian city of Irkutsk over the weekend to pressure the ruling United Russia party and the local authorities to halt development projects that they say will damage the local environment. More  OSCE Hopes For Azeri Releases The media representative for Europe's main human rights and security body, the OSCE, says she is hopeful that two Azerbaijani activists who called for antigovernment protests via Facebook will be released from prison soon. More  'Bribe' Leaflets Rile Kyrgyz Candidate The spokesman for a prominent Kyrgyz presidential hopeful has described as a provocation leaflets accusing the candidate of accepting a multimillion-dollar bribe from a rival to quit the race ahead of an October 30 election. More  Russian Activists Protest Deforestation Dozens of activists from Moscow Oblast converged on the town of Khimki on October 23 to protest deforestation during construction works there. More  Photos Of The Week -- October 15-21 From prisoner swaps to Greek riots, Kosovo roadblocks, and the undoing of a Libyan dictator. More |
