http://www.rferl.org Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries http://www.rferl.org/img/rssLogo.gif http://www.rferl.org en-US Copyright 2009 - RFE/RL, Inc. 60 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:27:15 +0000 Pangea CMS – RFE/RL The United States has used warships to ferry relief supplies to Georgia after the brief but intense war with Russia in early August, in part to send a signal to Moscow. http://www.rferl.org/content/Medvedev_West_Provocation_Black_Sea/1196878.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Medvedev_West_Provocation_Black_Sea/1196878.html Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:47:28 +0000 News Hu said China respected Iran's right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy and called for further diplomacy, reinforcing the Communist leadership's line toward the long-festering dispute, according to Xinhua news agency. http://www.rferl.org/content/Hu_Iran_Nuclear_Impasse/1196824.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Hu_Iran_Nuclear_Impasse/1196824.html Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:14:45 +0000 News Members of the two-chamber parliament and four provincial assemblies were voting for a replacement for Pervez Musharraf, who resigned last month. http://www.rferl.org/content/Zardari_Won_Pakistan_Presidency/1196810.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Zardari_Won_Pakistan_Presidency/1196810.html Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:17:47 +0000 News Thousands of Shi'a demonstrated against the U.S. presence in Iraq, heeding orders from anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr for a peaceful show of force on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. http://www.rferl.org/content/Shiite_Clerics_Supporters_Protest_US_Presence_In_Iraq/1196729.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Shiite_Clerics_Supporters_Protest_US_Presence_In_Iraq/1196729.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:03:41 +0000 News At least five people have been killed in a missile attack by a suspected U.S. drone in Pakistan's North Waziristan region, in a stepped-up campaign against militants near the Afghan border. http://www.rferl.org/content/Suspected_US_Drone_Attack_Kills_Five_In_Pakistan/1196626.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Suspected_US_Drone_Attack_Kills_Five_In_Pakistan/1196626.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:42:16 +0000 News A U.S.-led coalition air strike has killed a woman and child and eight Taliban fighters in western Afghanistan, a top Afghan Army official said. http://www.rferl.org/content/Two_Civilians_Eight_Taliban_Killed_In_Afghan_Raid/1196598.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Two_Civilians_Eight_Taliban_Killed_In_Afghan_Raid/1196598.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:42:21 +0000 News The flagship of the U.S. Navy's Sixth Fleet has dropped anchor off Georgia's Black Sea port of Poti, where Russian troops have been patrolling since last month's war with Georgia. http://www.rferl.org/content/US_Warship_In_RussianPatrolled_Georgian_Port/1196579.html http://www.rferl.org/content/US_Warship_In_RussianPatrolled_Georgian_Port/1196579.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:46:42 +0000 News U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is to discuss the Georgia crisis with the leaders of Ukrainian, which is deeply divided over NATO membership and distracted by a domestic political crisis. http://www.rferl.org/content/US_Vice_President_Visits_Ukraine_Divided_On_NATO/1196541.html http://www.rferl.org/content/US_Vice_President_Visits_Ukraine_Divided_On_NATO/1196541.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:03:21 +0000 News BRUSSELS -- NATO and Afghanistan have agreed to coordinate more closely to avoid civilian casualties in operations against militants, an alliance spokesman said. http://www.rferl.org/content/NATO_Kabul_Agree_On_Improving_Military_Coordination/1196467.html http://www.rferl.org/content/NATO_Kabul_Agree_On_Improving_Military_Coordination/1196467.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:07:03 +0000 News KARALETI, Georgia -- International military monitors on September 4 entered a Russian buffer zone inside Georgia for the first time since fighting broke out last month over the breakaway region of South Ossetia. http://www.rferl.org/content/OSCE_Monitors_Enter_Russian_Zone_In_Georgia/1196462.html http://www.rferl.org/content/OSCE_Monitors_Enter_Russian_Zone_In_Georgia/1196462.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:59:12 +0000 News President Viktor Yushchenko's party rejects a call by the prime minister to return to the ruling coalition, moving the country closer to early elections. http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_Coalition/1196321.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_Coalition/1196321.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:42:21 +0000 News Turkish President Abdullah Gul will visit Armenia on September 6 for a soccer match, the president's office has said, in a major diplomatic step for the two states that have no diplomatic ties. http://www.rferl.org/content/Turkish_President_To_Visit_Armenia_For_Soccer_Match/1196169.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Turkish_President_To_Visit_Armenia_For_Soccer_Match/1196169.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:40:57 +0000 News A spokesman says NATO states back a U.S. call to show the alliance is prepared to defend its Baltic members from any attack after Russia's intervention in Georgia. http://www.rferl.org/content/NATO_Baltics/1196103.html http://www.rferl.org/content/NATO_Baltics/1196103.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:45:53 +0000 News SOCHI, Russia -- Russia will keep pushing for a deal between ex-Soviet Moldova and its breakaway Transdniester region, the Kremlin has said, in a drive to shore up its reputation after last month's war with Georgia. http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Committed_To_Transdniester_Solution/1196098.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Committed_To_Transdniester_Solution/1196098.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:23:56 +0000 News The IMF offers to lend Georgia $750 million to soften the impact of its war with Russia. http://www.rferl.org/content/IMF_Georgia_Loan/1196077.html http://www.rferl.org/content/IMF_Georgia_Loan/1196077.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:42:57 +0000 News Iran has sentenced four women's rights activists to six months in jail, including one who was awarded a $75,000 human rights prize in Sweden this year. It was the latest sign of a clampdown on activists working to change legislation which they say discriminates against women in the Islamic Republic. http://www.rferl.org/content/Iran_Jails_Four_Womens_Rights_Activists/1196043.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Iran_Jails_Four_Womens_Rights_Activists/1196043.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:20:46 +0000 News Police blocked streets in the capital of Russia's volatile Ingushetia region today to prevent new protests over the death of an opposition leader, which the United States has called on Moscow to investigate. http://www.rferl.org/content/Opposition_Vows_New_Protests_In_Russias_Ingushetia/1196037.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Opposition_Vows_New_Protests_In_Russias_Ingushetia/1196037.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:06:08 +0000 News BRUSSELS -- European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has said that Serbia could be granted the status of EU candidate in 2009, later than the target initially set by Belgrade of the end of this year. http://www.rferl.org/content/EU_Sees_Candidate_Status_For_Serbia_In_2009/1196019.html http://www.rferl.org/content/EU_Sees_Candidate_Status_For_Serbia_In_2009/1196019.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:31:40 +0000 News KYIV -- Some members of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine have said the party would quit the governing coalition, raising the prospect of snap elections barely nine months after the government was formed. http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_Ruling_Coalition_Risks_Collapse/1195972.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Ukraine_Ruling_Coalition_Risks_Collapse/1195972.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:31:04 +0000 News Washington urges Russian authorities to hold to account those responsible for the shooting death of Magomed Yevloyev, who died in police custody. http://www.rferl.org/content/US_Ingushetia_Journalist_Death/1195967.html http://www.rferl.org/content/US_Ingushetia_Journalist_Death/1195967.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:02:36 +0000 News U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in ex-Soviet Azerbaijan on September 3 for the first leg of a trip to show that Washington stands by its allies in the region after Russia's military intervention in Georgia. http://www.rferl.org/content/Cheney_To_Rally_US_Allies_In_Russias_Backyard/1195949.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Cheney_To_Rally_US_Allies_In_Russias_Backyard/1195949.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:17:05 +0000 News The U.S. military has disputed the toll of 96 civilians the Afghan government and United Nations said were killed in an air strike last month, saying only five to seven civilians had died. http://www.rferl.org/content/US_Says_Probe_Finds_Lower_Afghan_Civilian_Death_Toll/1195853.html http://www.rferl.org/content/US_Says_Probe_Finds_Lower_Afghan_Civilian_Death_Toll/1195853.html Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:16:48 +0000 News The United States' "carte blanche" support for Georgia's leaders helped provoke the conflict there and should now be scrapped, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said today. http://www.rferl.org/content/Medvedev_Says_US_Support_For_Georgia_Is_A_Mistake/1195850.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Medvedev_Says_US_Support_For_Georgia_Is_A_Mistake/1195850.html Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:35:33 +0000 News The commander of British forces in Afghanistan lauded the successful delivery of a turbine to Helmand Province today, calling it the "end of the beginning" of the campaign against the Taliban. http://www.rferl.org/content/Britains_Afghan_Commander_Hails_End_Of_Beginning/1195841.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Britains_Afghan_Commander_Hails_End_Of_Beginning/1195841.html Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:00:52 +0000 News UN rights body implores Iran to stay death sentences handed down for all convicts accused of committing crimes as minors. http://www.rferl.org/content/Iran_Executions_UN_Concern/1195754.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Iran_Executions_UN_Concern/1195754.html Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:46:57 +0000 News Iran's parliament indefinitely delays a vote on a bill women's rights activists say would encourage polygamy. http://www.rferl.org/content/Iran_Polygamy_Bill/1195703.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Iran_Polygamy_Bill/1195703.html Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:43:37 +0000 News Pakistani Taliban says abductions will continue until the government stops attacking militants. http://www.rferl.org/content/Taliban_Kidnap_Chinese_Pakistan/1195671.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Taliban_Kidnap_Chinese_Pakistan/1195671.html Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:46:24 +0000 News Moscow is now more isolated and less trusted than it was before its intervention in Georgia, says Britain's foreign secretary. http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Miliband_Georgia/1195655.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Miliband_Georgia/1195655.html Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:00:49 +0000 News Police in the southern Russian region break up an antigovernment protest, two days after an opposition leader dies in custody. http://www.rferl.org/content/Police_Protest_Russia_Ingushetia/1195627.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Police_Protest_Russia_Ingushetia/1195627.html Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:40:32 +0000 News The decision at an emergency summit in Brussels came after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hailed Moscow's military intervention over the breakaway South Ossetia conflict as setting a new standard for defending its national interests. http://www.rferl.org/content/EU_Russia_Talks_Georgia_Withdrawal/1195551.html http://www.rferl.org/content/EU_Russia_Talks_Georgia_Withdrawal/1195551.html Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:07:46 +0000 News More than a million Georgians across the former Soviet republic have protested against Russian military action and the Kremlin's backing for the country's two separatist regions. http://www.rferl.org/content/Million_Georgians_Rally_Against_Russian_Aggression/1195492.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Million_Georgians_Rally_Against_Russian_Aggression/1195492.html Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:20:21 +0000 News Russia wants an international police presence in "security zones" along the line separating Georgia from its breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said. http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Seeks_International_Police_Presence_In_Georgia/1195441.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Seeks_International_Police_Presence_In_Georgia/1195441.html Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:21:56 +0000 News U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops killed more than 220 suspected Taliban militants in an operation in southern Afghanistan last week, the U.S. military said, the biggest recent toll of insurgent deaths. http://www.rferl.org/content/US_Says_Troops_Kill_220_Taliban_In_Afghan_South/1195326.html http://www.rferl.org/content/US_Says_Troops_Kill_220_Taliban_In_Afghan_South/1195326.html Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:09:12 +0000 News The U.S. military hands over Iraq's western Al-Anbar Governorate to Iraqi security forces on September 1, less than two years after the region was all but lost to a Sunni Arab insurgency. http://www.rferl.org/content/US_To_Hand_Over_Former_Iraqi_Insurgent_Flashpoint/1195321.html http://www.rferl.org/content/US_To_Hand_Over_Former_Iraqi_Insurgent_Flashpoint/1195321.html Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:56:53 +0000 News A new flashpoint has emerged in the Iraqi government's tense relationship with minority Kurds as Kurdish and Iraqi government forces vie for control of an ethnically mixed town, officials have said. http://www.rferl.org/content/Standoff_Over_Iraqi_Town_Stokes_Tension_With_Kurds/1195230.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Standoff_Over_Iraqi_Town_Stokes_Tension_With_Kurds/1195230.html Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:18:52 +0000 News The owner of an opposition Internet news site in Russia's troubled Ingushetia region has been shot dead after police detained him, his colleagues said. http://www.rferl.org/content/Owner_Of_Russian_Opposition_Website_Killed/1195221.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Owner_Of_Russian_Opposition_Website_Killed/1195221.html Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:24:34 +0000 News The Pakistani Taliban will continue attacks during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, rejecting a government announcement it would halt military actions in the northwest, a Taliban spokesman has said. http://www.rferl.org/content/Pakistani_Taliban_Vows_To_Strike_During_Ramadan/1195218.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Pakistani_Taliban_Vows_To_Strike_During_Ramadan/1195218.html Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:12:35 +0000 News Four Turkish security personnel and two Kurdish separatists were killed early on August 31 after rebels launched a rocket attack on a military station in eastern Turkey, a security source said. http://www.rferl.org/content/Six_Dead_In_PKK_Attack_On_Turkish_Military_Base/1195194.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Six_Dead_In_PKK_Attack_On_Turkish_Military_Base/1195194.html Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:38:31 +0000 News KABUL -- The German military is considering building a railway line in northern Afghanistan to ease transport of NATO supplies to the country and boost economic activity in the area, a German news magazine reported on August 30. Apart from a short stretch from Uzbekistan, Afghanistan has almost no functioning railways, with less than 25 kilometers (15 miles) of track in the entire country. A number of railways leading towards Afghanistan stop short of the border. The proposed 67 kilometers ... http://www.rferl.org/content/German_Military_Proposes_New_Afghan_Rail_Link/1195128.html http://www.rferl.org/content/German_Military_Proposes_New_Afghan_Rail_Link/1195128.html Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:20:13 +0000 News Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez backed Russia's recognition of two breakaway regions of Georgia on August 29, making Venezuela only the second nation to support Moscow's stance. http://www.rferl.org/content/Chavez_Backs_Russian_Recognition_Of_Georgia_Regions/1195042.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Chavez_Backs_Russian_Recognition_Of_Georgia_Regions/1195042.html Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:40:06 +0000 News At least two Russian soldiers have died in bombings in Chechnya, including a suicide attack on an Interior Ministry battalion base, Russian news agencies reported on August 30. http://www.rferl.org/content/Bombs_Kill_At_Least_Two_Russian_Soldiers_In_Chechnya/1195036.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Bombs_Kill_At_Least_Two_Russian_Soldiers_In_Chechnya/1195036.html Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:28:01 +0000 News Pakistani forces pounded militant positions in the Swat Valley in the northwest on August 30 and a military spokesman said nearly 40 insurgents had been killed in the past 24 hours. http://www.rferl.org/content/Nearly_40_Said_Killed_In_Fighting_In_Northwestern_Pakistan/1195029.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Nearly_40_Said_Killed_In_Fighting_In_Northwestern_Pakistan/1195029.html Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:09:05 +0000 News Georgia will tighten visa requirements for Russian citizens following the Kremlin's decision to recognise two Georgian rebel regions, the government said on August 30. http://www.rferl.org/content/Georgia_Tightens_Visa_Regime_For_Russian_Citizens/1195025.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Georgia_Tightens_Visa_Regime_For_Russian_Citizens/1195025.html Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:48:20 +0000 News WASHINGTON -- The conduct of Belarus' parliamentary elections next month will help determine whether the United States lifts economic sanctions against the former Soviet republic, the State Department has said. http://www.rferl.org/content/US_Considers_Lifting_Sanctions_On_Belarus/1194980.html http://www.rferl.org/content/US_Considers_Lifting_Sanctions_On_Belarus/1194980.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:55:53 +0000 News The UN tribunal for the former Yugoslavia entered a plea of not guilty on behalf of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic for war crimes and genocide charges after he refused to plead. http://www.rferl.org/content/Karadzic_Plea_Entered_As_Not_Guilty_By_Tribunal/1194935.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Karadzic_Plea_Entered_As_Not_Guilty_By_Tribunal/1194935.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:11:57 +0000 News TBILISI -- Georgia will cut diplomatic ties with Russia over the Kremlin's recognition of two Georgian rebel regions as independent states, Deputy Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze said. "We have received instructions at the Foreign Ministry and we will cut diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation," Vashadze told reporters. "The final decision has been made." http://www.rferl.org/content/Georgia_cutting_diplomatic_ties_with_Russia/1194902.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Georgia_cutting_diplomatic_ties_with_Russia/1194902.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:55:07 +0000 News Russia has said the independence of two breakaway Georgian regions was irreversible, and Georgia said Russian-backed forces had almost completed the "ethnic cleansing" of Georgians from the areas. http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Says_Georgian_Breakup_Is_Irreversible/1194782.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Says_Georgian_Breakup_Is_Irreversible/1194782.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:31:40 +0000 News Russia's invasion of Georgia has raised concerns among senior Pentagon officials about long-term U.S.-Russian relations, including future military ties, the top U.S. military official has said. http://www.rferl.org/content/US_Military_Concerned_Over_Future_Ties_With_Russia/1194777.html http://www.rferl.org/content/US_Military_Concerned_Over_Future_Ties_With_Russia/1194777.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:21:30 +0000 News Western nations will have to resolve the standoff over Iran's nuclear ambitions without Russia's help if they refuse to cooperate with Moscow, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said. http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Links_Its_Help_On_Iran_To_Georgia_Dispute_/1194774.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Links_Its_Help_On_Iran_To_Georgia_Dispute_/1194774.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:12:09 +0000 News A former U.S. Marine sergeant accused of killing four unarmed Iraqi detainees has been acquitted of all criminal charges in the case, including voluntary manslaughter. http://www.rferl.org/content/US_Jury_Acquits_ExMarine_In_Iraqi_Killings/1194769.html http://www.rferl.org/content/US_Jury_Acquits_ExMarine_In_Iraqi_Killings/1194769.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:58:47 +0000 News