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![]() Russia will not increase its military presence along its western border as long as NATO refrains from a military buildup.Russia said that in mid-December of
2007 it will stop its obligations under a key European treaty limiting the deployment of tanks, aircraft and other heavy weapons.<... Posted by Galina Ivanova: Thursday, 06 Dec 2007 08:56 PM » View Comments ![]() Here are the final results of the Russian election (name of party, percentage of vote, number of seats):
United Russia 64.1 315Communist Party of the Russian Federation 11.6 57<... Posted by Galina Ivanova:
Thursday, 06 Dec 2007 01:51 PM » View Comments ![]() December 2, 2007: An exit poll showed that President Vladimir Putin's United Russia (?????? ??????: Edinaya Rossiya) party was winning with 61 percent
of the vote in today's parliamentary election.<...Posted by Galina Ivanova: Sunday, 02 Dec 2007 06:37 PM » View Comments ![]() Legislative elections will be held in the Russian Federation on December 2, 2007. All of the 450 seats in the State Duma (Gosudarstvennaya Duma), the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia will be chosen.<... Posted by Galina Ivanova: Saturday, 01 Dec 2007 03:52 PM » View
Comments ![]() Marina Litvinenko, widow of Alexander Litvinenko, is seeking a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights that the Russian state was complicit in poisoning the former security agent with radioactive polonium.
<... Posted by Galina Ivanova: Friday, 23 Nov 2007 07:01 PM » View Comments ![]() On November 23, 2007 Iran stated Western nations’
efforts to impose seeking harsher U.N. sanctions against it could halt its steps to clarify nuclear activity to U.N. inspectors.Earlier in the week, U.N. nuclear watchdog stated that believed that...Posted by Galina Ivanova: Saturday, 24 Nov 2007 12:29 AM » View
Comments ![]() Russian President Vladimir Putin attacked opponents and has accused the West of meddling in Russian politics.Putin's attack on his opponents came as he seeks to secure
a high turnout and strong support for...Posted by Galina Ivanova: Wednesday, 21 Nov 2007 03:36 PM » View Comments ![]() On November 24, 2007, former world chess champion Garry Kasparov was arrested and sentenced to five days in prison after he helped lead a protest against President Vladimir Putin.<... Posted by Galina Ivanova: Saturday, 24 Nov 2007 11:41 PM » View
Comments ![]() U.S. officials have accused Iran of many things: Developing nuclear weapons. Sponsoring terrorism. Killing Americans in Iraq. Planning Israel's destruction.Does the U.S. have evidence? <... Posted by Galina Ivanova: Sunday, 25 Nov 2007 12:16 AM » View Comments ![]() Robert Sedraki Kocharyan is the second
president of the third republic of Armenia.Kocharyan was born in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh on August 31, 1954. <... Posted by Galina Ivanova: Saturday, 24 Nov 2007 03:57 PM » View Comments ![]() On November 23, 2007 Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych presented his government's resignation at the first session of a new parliament on Friday, in the aftermath of the September elections.Yanukovych's declaration, as required by...Posted by Galina Ivanova: Friday, 23 Nov 2007 02:14 PM » View Comments ![]() Vladimir Churov, head of the Russian Central Election Commission is not disappointed with the the Organization for Security
and Co-operation in Europe's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE ODIHR) not to send observers to the upcoming Russian Parliamentary...Posted by Galina Ivanova: Friday, 23 Nov 2007 01:32 PM » View Comments ![]() On the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday, the United States submitted a proposal to Russia for cooperation on missile defense in eastern Europe against a supposed threat from Iran. <... Posted by Galina Ivanova: Thursday, 22 Nov 2007 04:52
AM » View Comments ![]() On November 18, 2007, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have expressed interest in converting their cash reserves into a currency
other than the rapidly depreciating U.S. dollar.
The meeting was held in the Saudi capital...Posted by Galina Ivanova: Monday, 19 Nov 2007 12:41 AM » View Comments ![]() Babii Yar is a ravine in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. In the course of two days, September 29—30, 1941, German Nazis, aided by their collaborators murdered 33,771 Jewish civilians. The Babii Yar massacre is considered to be the largest single massacre in the history of the Holocaust.<... Posted by Galina
Ivanova: Sunday, 18 Nov 2007 12:38 AM » View Comments ![]() Latvia’s current citizenship law was enacted in 1998 after pressure from and debate with both Russia and the European Union.Latvian citizens are defined as those persons who had Latvian citizenship prior to June 17, 1940, and their...Posted by Galina Ivanova: Saturday, 17 Nov 2007 03:54 PM » View Comments ![]() The
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has claimed that it will not be able to monitor the Russian Parliamentary elections in December 2007 because Russia did not grant visas in time.<...Posted by Galina Ivanova: Friday, 16 Nov 2007 04:01 PM » View
Comments ![]() Azerbaijan declared its independence from the former Soviet Union on August 30, 1991.
Ayaz Mutalibov, former First Secretary of the Azerbaijani Communist Party became the country's first President.
A...Posted by Galina Ivanova: Friday, 16 Nov 2007 04:25 AM » View Comments Some other posts you may have missed
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