Sunday, May 19, 2013


  • Election Precedents In The North Caucasus

    In line with a recent amendment to last year's law reintroducing direct elections for the heads of Russia's 83 federation subjects, the Daghestani and Ingushetian parliaments have voted overwhelmingly for an alternative option. Will others follow suit?

  • Video Bosnia's Romeo And Juliet

    The story of ethnic Serb Bosko Brkic and Admira Ismic, his Bosniak girlfriend, ended with two short bursts from a sniper's rifle on a Sarajevo bridge the afternoon of May 19, 1993.

  • Green-Card Lottery Running Out Of Luck

    Each year, the U.S. green-card lottery awards around 55,000 tickets to possible citizenship. But the program has become a bargaining chip as Democrats and Republicans eye an overhaul of the immigration system.



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Video Could Tobacco Be The Next Biofuel?

Biofuel researchers at UC Berkeley may keep the tobacco industry from going up in smoke. Scientists are engineering tobacco plants to produce oils that can serve as biofuels to power airplanes, cars, trucks and other machines.

Photogallery 'Watercolor Train' Turns Moscow Metro Into Museum

A subway car known as the "Watercolor Train" is showing a new exhibit as it carries passengers through the Russian capital. The train car is outfitted with art each year to mark the anniversary of the opening of the Moscow Metro on May 15, 1935. (7 PHOTOS)

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