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PHOTO GALLERY: The Eight Horsemen Of The North Caucasus Apocalypse (click photo above) By Liz Fuller Over the past 15 years, Russia’s North Caucasus has become a byword for war, destruction, human rights abuses, extrajudicial killings, corruption, economic collapse, and Islamic terrorism. Last year, 754 people were killed in ongoing low-level hostilities — two a [...]

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia — A Russian man and his daughter were killed and likely eaten by a brown bear on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula over the weekend, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports. The bear reportedly attacked the two tourists camping on the Paratunka River on August 13. The bear attacked the man first and his 19-year-old daughter managed [...]

MOSCOW, Aug 15 (PRIME) — U.S. aircraft maker Boeing has increased its forecast on the demand for aircraft from airlines both from Russia and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) 12.5% to 1,080 units within the next 20 years, Boeing said in a report Monday. In monetary terms, the forecast was also [...]

MOSCOW, Aug 15 (PRIME) — The investigative commission of Russias Federal Transport Oversight Service has determined that the causes of the July 10 sinking of the riverboat Bulgariya were severe safety violations and an inadequately trained and poorly disciplined crew, the service said in a statement Monday. The investigation also revealed that the ships captain [...]

MOSCOW, Aug 15 (PRIME) — The Russian government plans to set a decreasing coefficient to calculate prices of Russian natural gas supplies to Belarus in 2012, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a news conference Monday. The Russian government has decided to include a decreasing coefficient into the gas price formula for Belarus starting [...]

SOCHI, August 15 (Itar-Tass) —— The borders of the area to be incorporated into Moscow have been determined and presented to President Dmitry Medvedev. “The governor of the Moscow region and I are working to implement your instruction,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said at a meeting with Medvedev on Monday, August 15. “We have already [...]

MOSCOW, August 15 (Itar-Tass) —— Belarusian Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich asked his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to work out a set of measures in a bilateral or trilateral format in order to support Minsk in connection with U.S. sanctions. “The Russian Federation has always supported the Republic of Belarus. Tools for providing appropriate support can [...]

SOCHI, August 15 (Itar-Tass) —— President Dmitry Medvedev met with Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller and Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuri Boiko on Monday, August 15. The discussion focused on Russia’s gas cooperation. Boiko presented his proposals on how to develop cooperation between the two countries in the field of gas transportation. The proposals cover “not only [...]

KIEV, August 15 (Itar-Tass) —— The prosecution insists that former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko should be questioned in court in the case of ex-Prime Minister and Batkivshchina opposition party leader Yulia Timoshenko. “I think he [Yushchenko] should be summoned to court,” Prosecutor Lilia Frolova said on Monday, August 15. She said she was not aware [...]

ASTANA, August 15 (Itar-Tass) — The Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) intends to work out new mechanisms to react to the situation in Afghanistan, CSTO Secretary-General Nikolai Bordyuzha said. Speaking at a video conference on Monday, Bordyuzha said this issue became one of the priorities at the CSTO informal summit that had taken place in [...]

MOSCOW, August 15 (Itar-Tass) —— Russia will not respond immediately to EU and U.S. economic sanctions against Belarusian companies, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said. “It is my first belief that they [sanctions] are never effective. On the contrary, they turn against those who impose them,” he said after a meeting of the Council of Ministers [...]

CHISINAU, August 15 (Itar-Tass) — Russian bloger Eduard Bagirov will stay in a Moldovan prison for another 30 days. The court of the Chisinau central district satisfied the application of Moldova’s Office of Prosecutor-General to this effect, Bagirov’s lawyer Adrian Matkovsky told reporters on Monday. “A court meeting was held urgently on Friday evening, unexpectedly [...]

TEHRAN, August 15 (Itar-Tass) — Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev arrived in Tehran on a two-day visit on Monday at the invitation of secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili. According to IRNA News Agency, the upcoming talks will focus on the situation in the Middle East and North Africa [...]

MOSCOW, August 15 (Itar-Tass) —— Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds that integration processes in the framework of the Customs Union (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan), far from hampering, supplement similar processes of the Union State of Russia and Belarus. He stated this to reporters after the meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Union State [...]