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 New ‘Truth and Justice’ Party Looks To Shake Up Afghan Politics Boasting a self-proclaimed reformist agenda and members from across the country’s ethnic and ideological spectrum, the new Haq-wa-Edalat or Truth and Justice party officially launched this week in Afghanistan. More  Radicalization Splitting Society In Russia's North Caucasus Outside the violent North Caucasus, there may be a growing perception that a certain, even managed, level of instability suits one or more groups among the authorities in Moscow. But as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin prepares to return to the presidency next year, developments in Daghestan and elsewhere show the situation in the Caucasus is anything but stable, and that traditional society is tearing at the seams.More  Temperatures Rise Ahead Of Latest UN Report On Iran Nuclear ProgramThe UN atomic watchdog is expected to publish fresh evidence next week suggesting that Iran is seeking to build a nuclear weapon. Ahead of the report, tensions are rising with heightened media speculation that Israel might take military action against Tehran. More  Fear And Loathing: Russian Attitudes Help Fuel Instability In The North Caucasus The tiny village of Balakhani clings to a mountainside at the end of a rough dirt road winding high into the Caucasus Mountains in Russia's region of Daghestan.More  G20 Agrees To Beef Up IMF G20 leaders say they have agreed to boost the financial resources of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). More  Russian Nationalists March In Moscow Several thousand nationalists are marching in Moscow to call for ethnic Russians to "take back" Russia. More  Mars Mission Experiment Ends Six volunteers from a multinational crew have emerged from an isolation capsule simulating travel to Mars. More  Albania Passes Waste Import Law Parliament in Albania has passed legislation allowing the import of waste from abroad. More  Belarusian Activist Sues Officials Over Meeting Ban An activist in central Belarus has filed a lawsuit against municipal authorities accusing them of illegally banning a public gathering. More  Yabloko Publishes Multilingual Program The Russian opposition Yabloko party has published its election program in 15 languages spoken in the Russian Federation in what it says is a response to the November 4 marches by nationalists across the country. More  Belarus Activist Must Pay For Evaluation An activist in western Belarus was told by a court that she must pay some 6 million rubles ($685) for an evaluation that could exonerate her of charges of extremism. More  Prominent Kyrgyz Trial Postponed The trial of the son of the Bishkek mayor in connection with a fatal traffic accident has been postponed until November 15 due to the suspect being ill. More Hundreds of people have lined up in front of Cartu Bank offices in Tbilisi in recent days to open an account in support of opposition billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili. More  Losing Kyrgyz Candidate Ends Protests Defeated Kyrgyz presidential candidate Kamchybek Tashiev has announced his decision to halt protests by his supporters against the election results. More  Armenia Rules Out Major UN Role In Karabakh Talks Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian has ruled out a major role for the United Nations in efforts to end the dispute over the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh even after Azerbaijan became a member of the world body's Security Council. More  Russian Army Chief Visits Armenia Again The commander-in-chief of Russia's ground forces has visited Armenia where he met top Armenian military officials and inspected Russian troops stationed in the country. More  New Lenin Statue For Russian Republic A new monument to Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin has been unveiled in Ufa, the capital of the Russian republic of Bashkortostan. More  Kazakhstan's Nur-Mubarak U Keeps The Faith Nearly nine months after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was ousted by popular revolt, Kazakh officials dig in their heels over the name of the Nur-Mubarak Egyptian University of Islamic Culture, a religious educational institution in Almaty. More  Against The Grain As Russia marked National Unity Day today and thousands marched in Moscow chanting nationalistic, xenophobic, and sometimes outright racist slogans, Yabloko leader Sergei Mitrokhin traveled to Kazan to send a very different message. More  Podcast: Hell On Earth...And Hope In Cyberspace In Episode 43 of The Blender, we look at how a growing culture of violence is destroying traditional ways of life in the North Caucasus republic of Daghestan. Plus, the challenges ahead for the new Kyrgyz president, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's plans for using the Internet to forge links with ordinary people in Iran. More  Russian Nationalists March In Moscow Russian ultranationalists marched in a "Russian March" in Moscow on November 4, 2011. Russia marks National Unity Day on November 4, when it celebrates the defeat of Polish invaders in 1612 and replaces a communist celebration of the 1917 revolution. More |
