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Missing zone for Angelina Jolie Discusses Film Set In Bosnia
 Nationalists Vs. Liberals: Old Schism Could Fracture Opposition Protest Movement As Russia gears up for mass nationwide demonstrations on December 10, the presence of nationalist voices is unsettling some of Russia's ethnic minorities who are otherwise sympathetic to the movement's goals. It's a potential division that unnerves liberals and that the Kremlin is more than eager to exploit. More  Eurozone Agrees Fiscal Deal, U.K. Opts Out After marathon negotiations, a new deal aimed at tackling the eurozone debt crisis and preventing the collapse of the common currency has emerged in Brussels. More  Top Russian Health Inspector: Demonstrators Will Catch The Flu The Kremlin spin machine was firing on all cylinders on December 9 as top state doctor Gennady Onishchenko warned that protesters set to rally across dozens of Russian towns on December 10 should stay at home – or else risk catching the flu. More  Podcast: Eyewitnesses Recall U.S.S.R.'s Dying Days, Plus St. Petersburg Surf Rock Eyewitness histories as we mark the 20th anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union; plus surf rock from St. Petersburg and "Sesame Street" makes its debut in Afghanistan. More  South Ossetian Opposition Leader Offers Compromise Solution To Standoff With support for outgoing de facto South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity crumbling, Alla Dzhioyeva, the apparent winner of the election to choose his successor, has proposed a solution to the deadlock precipitated by the Supreme Court's annulment of the results of the November 27 runoff ballot. More  Adygeya Republic Head Nominated For Second Term The Kremlin has nominated Aslan Tkhakushinov to serve a second term as Republic of Adygeya head, ignoring requests by several prominent opposition figures to replace him. More  Armenian Election Observer Slams Russian Elections An Armenian opposition deputy has called Russia's controversial parliamentary elections "undemocratic" and criticized Armenia's government for welcoming the results. More  Armenian Remittances Soar In 2011 Cash remittances sent home by thousands of Armenians working in Russia and other countries increased by more than 23 percent in the first 10 months of this year compared to 2010More  Police Seek Missing Belarusian Activist A missing opposition activist in eastern Belarus is now officially being sought by police. More  Belarus 'Noodle Protester' Trial Opens The trial of an activist of the unregistered Belarusian National Bolshevik Party (NBP) charged with minor hooliganism over a noodle-dumping to protest state media has begun in Minsk. More  Bosnia War Victims Praise New Jolie Film Hollywood star Angelina Jolie's directorial debut, "In The Land Of Blood And Honey," has been controversial in Bosnia-Herzegovina for months. The film tells the story of an ethnically mixed couple that is torn apart by the country's civil war. Initially, victims' groups resisted the film. On December 8, Jolie brought the film to Sarajevo for a special screening. More  'I Believe Iran Can Help Us,' Says Wife Of Captured FBI Agent The family of American Robert Levinson, the former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran in 2007, has publicly released a video, which they said they received a year ago. The tape shows Levinson, looking haggard, talking about his captivity, and asking the U.S. government for help. More than four years after his disappearance, Levinson’s wife, Christine, says his captors have still made no demands. More Islamists Claim Deadly Kazakh Violence A militant Islamist group that has in the past threatened the Kazakh government is claiming its fighters were involved in a shoot-out with Kazakh security forces on December 3 near Almaty. More  Kyrgyz Tourist Killers Jailed Four Kyrgyz men have been sentenced for robbing and killing a Kazakh tourist at a resort town in August. More  15 Kyrgyz 'Deserters' Turn Themselves In Fifteen missing Kyrgyz soldiers have turned themselves in to the Military Prosecutor's Office in Bishkek, saying they had been physically assaulted by officers in the unit. More  S.Ossetia's Dzhioyeva Raps Moscow The disqualified winner of the presidential election in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia says Russian leaders are not aware of the real situation in her territory. More  EU Postpones Serbia Candidacy Decision EU President Herman Van Rompuy says a decision by the European Union on whether to grant Serbia candidate status will be made in February. A decision originally had been expected at the EU summit on December 9. More  EU Postpones Serbia Candidacy European Union leaders were likely to put off a key step toward eventual Serbian membership until March in a blow to Belgrade, which hoped to be awarded EU candidate status at the ongoing summit in Brussels. More  Former Turkmen Official Slams Gov't A former Turkmen cabinet member has criticized Turkmenistan's ruling party for being an "unlawful institution" and for the absence of democracy and human rights in the country. More  Ukraine Opposition Stages Walkout Opposition deputies have walked out of a Ukrainian parliament session "to protest what they called President Viktor Yanukoyvch's "lawlessness." More  Tymoshenko Tried From Jail Cell Authorities in Ukraine have placed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko under indefinite arrest following the resumption in her jail cell of an embezzlement trial launched after her conviction on unrelated charges. More |
