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April 29, 2010
What If Sanctions On Iran Don't Work?

As the United States lobbies for tougher sanctions against Iran to force it to halt its sensitive nuclear activities, there are doubts whether new sanctions can work -- and questions about what other options are open to Washington.

April 29, 2010
Amid Protests, Stalin Posters Pulled From V-Day Celebrations In Moscow

Lavish celebrations planned in Moscow marking the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II have been overshadowed by a controversy over whether to display posters of Soviet wartime leader Josef Stalin.
April 29, 2010
For Yanukovych, A Fleet-Footed Dash To Repair Russia Divide

Viktor Yanukovych may have been in office only two months, but the Ukrainian president is already moving at breathtaking speed to realign his country with Russia.
April 29, 2010
Russian Firm Denies 'Club-K' Missiles Could Be Used By Terrorists

A Russian defense manufacturer is marketing a highly mobile missile system that could be hidden in a standard cargo container, but has downplayed concerns that such an easily concealed weapon could become a tool of terrorists.
April 28, 2010
Pakistan's Displaced Pashtuns Face Choice Between Home, Security

A Pashtun tribe has resisted military demands that they return to their mountain villages in Pakistan's South Waziristan, saying the military campaign against Taliban extremists has left little to return to and that the security situation remains uncertain.
April 28, 2010
Interview: Crimean Tatar Leader Attacks Ukraine's Black Sea Fleet Deal

On April 27, the Russian and Ukrainian parliaments ratified an agreement to extend Russia's lease of the Crimean port of Sevastopol for its Black Sea Fleet until 2042. Mustafa Dzhemilev, chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars, spoke with RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service about the new Russian-Ukrainian deal.
April 28, 2010
Is Kyrgyzstan's Revolution Ready For Export?

Following the bloody uprising this month that led to the overthrow of the Kyrgyz government, the question arises whether conditions in neighboring Central Asian states could be favorable for similar political turbulence.
April 28, 2010
Interview: 'The Only Politically Acceptable Explanation Is To Blame Polish Pilots'

RFE/RL Georgian Service correspondent Nino Gelashvili talked to political expert Przemyslaw Zurawski vel Grajewski of the Natolin European Center in Warsaw and the University of Lodz about the emerging political situation in Poland.
April 28, 2010
Russia Launches Full-Court Press For Energy Projects In Europe

Last year's global economic crisis may have slowed Russia's progress in pushing new energy projects in the lucrative European market. But those days appear to be coming to an end.
April 27, 2010
Reporter's Notebook: Battle Of The Flags In Oslo

In an apparent coincidence, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his security detail are sharing an Oslo hotel with some of his harshest critics -- the dissidents, activists, and journalists attending a major human rights forum.
April 26, 2010
Future Kyrgyz Government Faces Traditional North-South Divide

The chaotic turn of events that led to the ouster of Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev this month breathed new life into fears that the country could be split in two. Upon fleeing the nation's capital amid Kyrgyzstan's second revolution in five years, Bakiev sought shelter in his native southern region, where he railed against the policies of northerners.
April 24, 2010
Interview: Georgia's 'Little War' Raises Big Questions

Was the August 2008 war between Russia and Georgia a fight over small separatist provinces? Or did it represent something larger? The latter, says Ronald Asmus, executive director of the Brussels-based Transatlantic Center of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and author of the recently released "A Little War That Shook The World: Georgia, Russia and the Future of the West." Asmus tells RFE/RL that leaders in Europe and the United States have yet to grasp the war's full meaning.

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Thursday 29 April 2010

What If Sanctions On Iran Don't Work?

Amid Protests, Stalin Posters Pulled From V-Day Celebrations In Moscow

For Yanukovych, A Fleet-Footed Dash To Repair Russia Divide

Russian Firm Denies 'Club-K' Missiles Could Be Used By Terrorists

Pakistan's Displaced Pashtuns Face Choice Between Home, Security

Interview: Crimean Tatar Leader Attacks Ukraine's Black Sea Fleet Deal

Is Kyrgyzstan's Revolution Ready For Export?

Interview: 'The Only Politically Acceptable Explanation Is To Blame Polish Pilots'

Russia Launches Full-Court Press For Energy Projects In Europe

Reporter's Notebook: Battle Of The Flags In Oslo

Future Kyrgyz Government Faces Traditional North-South Divide

Interview: Georgia's 'Little War' Raises Big Questions

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