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10/31/2011 9:10:59 PM
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 The Results Of Hate Speech And Inaction In Bosnia "Credible deterrence" in Bosnia can only be imposed by the international community. That community still "agrees to disagree" about the causes of the country's problems. More  Interview: As World Population Hits 7 Billion, How Many More People Can The Earth Sustain? The world's population has hit 7 billion and the rate of growth shows no sign of slowing down. RFE/RL correspondent Antoine Blua asked Gilles Pison, senior researcher at the French National Institute for Demographic Studies, about the implications for human well-being and the fate of the Earth. More  Postcommunist, European, And 'Short Of People' The world's population has reached 7 billion. But in many postcommunist European states, depopulation is the norm. More  U.S. Cuts UNESCO Funding Over Palestine The United States says it will immediately cut off funding to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in response to a vote that granted Palestine membership. More  Russia Sees WTO Deal By Mid-December After 18 years of talks, Russia appears on the verge of succeeding in its bid to join the world's leading trade body. More  Atambaev Poised To Become Next Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev, the 55-year-old former prime minister of Kyrgyzstan, has claimed victory by a sizable margin in the country's first presidential elections since the ouster of Kurmanbek Bakiev in antigovernment protests last year. More  Atambaev Against U.S Military Presence Former Kyrgyz Prime Minister Almazbek Atambaev, who has declared victory in the October 30 presidential election, says he opposes the use by the United States of the military transit center at Manas airport near Bishkek. More  Protesters Block Highway In Southern Kyrgyzstan Some 1,000 supporters of a defeated candidate in Kyrgyzstan's presidential election blocked the Bishkek-Osh highway in the southern Jalal-Abad Oblast on October 31. More  Russian Opposition Offices Searched Police in Yekaterinburg have searched the office of the unregistered opposition party PARNAS (Party of People's Freedom). More  Russian 'Slave' Soldier Charged A Russian soldier who claims he spent more than a decade in forced labor has been officially charged with desertion. More  One Man Killed In Kazakh Blasts Two explosions have rocked Kazakhstan's western city of Atyrau, killing a suspected suicide bomber. More  Bakiev Did Not Vote In Kyrgyz Election Former Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev, who is currently living in Belarus, did not vote in the October 30 Kyrgyz presidential election. More  Kazakh Convicted Of Kyrgyz Journalist's Murder Sews His Mouth Shut One of three men jailed in Kazakhstan for killing a prominent Kyrgyz journalist has sewn his mouth shut in protest at his conviction. More  Kyrgyz President Thanked With Roses Youth activists and bloggers in Kyrgyzstan have been inviting people to bring "Roses for Roza" to celebrate outgoing Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbaeva's tenure, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. More  Clemency Pressure On Belarus Inmate Jailed former Belarusian presidential candidate Mikalay Statkevich is being pressured to write to President Alyaksandr Lukashenka asking for clemency.More  Tajik Teachers, Farmers 'Forced To Subscribe' Schoolteachers and farmers in the southern Tajik city of Kulob are complaining that they have been forced to buy annual subscriptions to state newspapers.More  Iran's Basij Launches Website To Cover Occupy Wall Street Movement The Occupy Wall Street Movement has found an unlikely fan: Iran's government Basij force, whose thuggish members are thought to have been heavily involved in the crackdown that followed the disputed reelection of Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad in 2008. More  After The Turkish Quake The 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck eastern Turkey on October 23, 2011, left hundreds dead and destroyed thousands of buildings. In the days following the tremor, Abbas Atilay, a photographer working for RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service, traveled to the Turkish city of Van, which was one of the places worst affected by the quake. While he was there, he documented the frantic rescue efforts that took place in the immediate aftermath of the quake and also captured images of local residents as they began the slow process of rebuilding their lives. More  Almazbek Atambaev: A Political Chameleon In Kyrgyz Fashion Almazbek Atambaev, leader of Kyrgyzstan's Social-Democratic Party, looked set to become the country's fourth president after cruising to a comfortable first-round victory on October 30. More |
