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10 most important world events of 2008
February 22, 20112008 marks the beginning of the global financial crisis, and the rising of the oil price till $100 per barrel for the first time. 1. Summer Olympic Games 2008 that took place in Beijing, China. It was the XXIX Olympiad. The international multi-sport...
Yogurt with a vodka chaser? The world's oldest woman may live in Georgia
March 12, 2010By Grant Podelco Antisa Khvichava's documents say she was born in 1880. That would make her 130 years old. Khvichava lives in Georgia and was featured in a BBC report today, which quotes her family as saying she's the world's oldest woman. (Which begs...
What to do with President Medvedev’s European Security Treaty?
December 18, 2009By Michael Emerson We reproduced in our last issue the text of the draft European Security Treaty published on the Kremlin’s website of 1 December. The text is dressed up in smart legal language. The legal department of the Russian Ministry of...
A tragic anniversary in Georgia
November 06, 2009By Paul Goble Tomorrow, in various ways and with various feelings in their hearts, many people across the former Soviet space will commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the Bolshevik coup d’état. But in Georgia, many will mark the 2nd anniversary...
RFE/RL to Launch Program to Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Russian
October 07, 2009Next month, RFE/RL will launch a news program in Russian to the Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The new 60-minute daily radio broadcast, called Ekho Kavkaza (Echo of the Caucasus), will focus on local and international news and current...
Moldova: Strangers In Their Own Land
August 20, 2009By Natalia Morari A friend of my husband's decided to send her daughter, Nastya, to a preschool. According to her, she and her family speak only Russian and know virtually no Romanian. I'm not saying whether that is right or not, but just reporting...
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...
Russians, Germans Ready to Prepare Common Textbook on 20th Century
June 22, 2009By Paul Goble On the 68th anniversary of the German attack on the Soviet Union, a senior Moscow academician said that Russian historians are close to an agreement with their German colleagues to write a common textbook on 20th history, something possible...
Well-off Muscovite Teenagers More Inclined to View US as Enemy
June 20, 2009By Paul Goble Nearly half of Muscovite teenagers in relatively well-off family circumstances currently view the United States as an enemy of Russia, a view that fewer than a quarter of the poorest and most disadvantaged members of that age cohort share...
Moldovan, Georgian breakaway regions sign cooperation accord
June 02, 2009The central electoral commissions of Moldova's breakaway Dniester region and South Ossetia have signed a cooperation agreement. The chairmen of the commissions, Petr Denisenko and Bella Pliyeva, told journalists after the ceremony of signing that...