Caucasus
BALKANS: Premiers agree Black Sea-Adriatic pipeline
The prime ministers of Albania, Macedonia and Bulgaria yesterday signed an agreement to build an...
BalkansRUSSIA/TURKEY: Energy dominates trade-based ties
Russian President Vladimir Putin completed late yesterday a one-day visit to Turkey, the first by...
RussiaEASTERN EUROPE: Russia opposes forum's rights role
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called today for reform of the 55-nation Organisation for...
Eastern EuropeRUSSIA/ARMENIA: Yerevan remains dependent on Moscow
Russian Railways chief Gennady Fadeyev has been in Yerevan this week discussing forming a joint...
RussiaGEORGIA/ARMENIA/RUSSIA: Railway may not reopen soon
Tbilisi expressed its doubts today that the railway through Abkhazia might be reopened soon.
GeorgiaCAUCASUS: Georgian-Russian blockage hurts Armenia
On Sunday, the Verkhny Lars checkpoint on the North Ossetian-Georgian border was opened for...
CaucasusRUSSIA: Moscow adopts tougher stances after Beslan
Dmitry Kozak was appointed presidential envoy to the Southern Federal District at an...
RussiaRUSSIA: Putin ridicules Western views of Chechnya
Kremlin adviser Aslanbek Aslakhanov -- who was in Beslan during last week's school siege -- told...
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