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11/30/2011 9:18:16 PM
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CAUCASUS REPORT
 Has South Ossetian Leader Outfoxed Moscow? Tensions are rising in the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia following a clumsy attempt by de facto President Eduard Kokoity to thwart Moscow's attempt to install its preferred candidate to succeed him. More  Minsk Bombers Given Death Sentences A court in Belarus has convicted two defendants and sentenced them to death for carrying out a Minsk subway bombing that killed 15 people and injured hundreds of others on April 11. More  Shots Fired At South Ossetian Demo Hundreds of supporters of disqualified presidential candidate Alla Dzhioyeva have marched through the streets of the South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali to protest a court decision that overturned Dzhioyeva's apparent victory in the November 27 presidential election. More  U.K. Expels Iranian Officials, Closes Embassy Britain is expelling all Iranian officials and is closing its own embassy in Tehran following assaults against its diplomatic compounds. London said the attacks were carried out by Iranians with direct links to the regime. More  'Blame It On The Brits' A Familiar Refrain In Iran The central character in Iran’s best known and most popular satirical novel, “Uncle Napoleon,” sees plots by the British behind everything that has happened in his country. More  Events Summon Memories Of '79, But With Differences The incident this week in Tehran has inevitably been compared to the events of 32 years ago. But there are differences. More  Kazakhs Sentenced In Prison 'Riot' More than a dozen inmates at a labor camp in northern Kazakhstan have been sentenced for organizing a riot in the camp last year. More  6 Arrested For Kazakh Terror Attacks Kazakh police have arrested six suspected associates of an alleged terrorist who killed seven people in the southern city of Taraz earlier this month. More  Outgoing Kyrgyz President Apologizes For Failure To Prevent Deadly Ethnic Clashes Outgoing Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbaeva has publicly apologized for her failure to prevent deadly ethnic clashes in the country last year. More  Kyrgyz Rescued From 'Slavery' Abroad he number of Kyrgyz citizens who required official help to return home from de facto slavery abroad doubled this year. More  Politics Takes Toll On Pakistani Truckers Thousands of truck drivers have found themselves stuck in the road in Pakistan. But it's not road conditions that are preventing them from crossing into Afghanistan to deliver their cargos, it's politics. More  Gravely Ill Russian's Remand Extended A Moscow court has prolonged for a further six months the detention of ailing businesswoman Natalya Gulevich. More  Russia Calls Suspected Killer 'A Victim' Russian authorities have launched an investigation into the alleged attempted murder of Andrei Lugovoi, who is wanted in Britain as a suspect in the killing of former Russian security agent Aleksandr Litvinenko in 2006. More  Portable Churches Go On Sale In Serbia A potentially profitable business delivering go-anywhere mini-churches in Serbia reportedly has the backing of Orthodox officials. But it doesn't please everybody.More  Ukrainians Rally In Kyiv To Support Donetsk Protesters Some 3,000 veterans of the 1986 cleanup of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster and the Soviet Union's Afghan war picketed the Ukrainian government building in Kyiv on November 29, protesting planned cuts in social allowances. More |
