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No Ukrainian language school in Russia for about 2M Ukrainians
August 17, 2009By Paul Goble Ukraine Has Nearly 3,000 Russian-Language Schools, but Russia Doesn’t Have Even a Single Ukrainian-Language One Despite Moscow’s frequent charges and complaints, Kyiv pays for the operation of nearly 3,000 Russian...
Houston Socialite Joanne Herring Seeks Help For Afghanistan
August 12, 2009A few years ago, people learned about a little-known chapter in the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union through a book and, later, a movie called "Charlie Wilson's War." Charlie Wilson was a maverick Texas congressman, who found...
Health Care Reform Bill: Americans fight back, Katy Abram's story
August 11, 2009Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), who switched from the Republican to Democratic Party this year, was confronted with questions and statements at a town hall meeting in Lebanon, Pennsylvania on Tuesday. His constituency is frustrated about the Democratic...
Holocaust Survivors ask Russia to disclose their hero's fate
August 08, 2009By Carolyn Weaver Holocaust Survivors Campaign for Russia to Disclose Fate of World War II Hero Raoul Wallenberg Swedish humanitarian worker Raoul Wallenberg is credited with saving tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from deportation to Nazi concentration...
Snail Fever, Possible New Treatments
August 08, 2009By Malcolm Brown Public health officials are hoping that recent scientific progress will lead to new treatments for a debilitating and potentially deadly tropical disease, which affects more than 200 million people every year. Researchers completed the...
Pro-Georgian Blogger Target of Mass Cyber Attacks
August 08, 2009Security experts say the coordinated cyber attacks which temporarily shut down two popular social networking Web sites Thursday were aimed at silencing a Georgian blogger critical of Russian actions against his country. Facebook's chief security officer...
Why Some Russians are Ready to Acquire Ukrainian Citizenship
August 08, 2009Eight Reasons Why Some Russians are More than Ready to Acquire Ukrainian Citizenship By Paul Goble Patriarch Kirill’s suggestion that he is ready to acquire dual citizenship in Ukraine has prompted activists of the Russian National...
Earthquake of magnitude 5.5 shakes off Romania, Bulgaria
August 05, 2009A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck off Romania and northeastern Bulgaria on 5 August 2009 around 10:45, Romanian National Institute for Earth Physics said. The quake's epicenter was off the Romanian and Bulgarian Black Sea coasts, and its estimated depth...
Scientists open ancient archeological site in Chisinau
August 04, 2009Scientists opened a site of an ancient man at the bank of the former Valea Morilor Lake in Chisinau, Scientific worker of the Archeological Center of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of the Moldova Academy of Sciences Sergiu Bodean told Infotag. In...
Only 1% Russians feel sympathy for Moldovans, Jews, Chinese...
August 04, 2009Russian Federation citizens feel the greatest sympathy for the ethnic Russians living outside Russia and for Slavic nations as a whole - 31%, according to the All-Russia Center for Public Opinion Studies, which has just published the findings of its research...