Robert Parsons

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• October 06, 2006

  Georgia: Saakashvili Victorious In Local Elections

  Saakashvili (center) and parliament speaker Nino Burdjandze (right) declaring victory on October 5 (InterPressNews) PRAGUE, October 6, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Georgians voted on October 5 in municipal elections that many had seen as a first real test of the popularity of President Mikheil Saakashvili's government since its election in 2004.

• September 27, 2006

  Georgia: Government Urged To Combat Domestic Violence

  Coalition of Caucasian Women co-Director Nino Tsikhistavi (RFE/RL) PRAGUE, September 27, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- On August 28, Natia Janelidze decided she had had enough.

• September 20, 2006

  Boom Sparks Fears Of 'Dutch Disease'

  Baku may be falling victim to a similar decline in its manufacturing sector as the Netherlands after the discovery of natural gas in the 1960s.

• September 14, 2006

  Separatists Throw Down Referendum Gauntlet

  South Ossetia is generating a great deal of hot air ahead of a November poll. A bitter war of words has increasingly been accompanied by violence.

• August 24, 2006

  Post-Soviet Countries Struggle To Find Their Voices

  Emblems, flags, and national anthems. Few things do more to stimulate the passions of legislators in the former Soviet Union.

• August 15, 2006

  Tatarstan: Post Office Expands Into Vodka Business

  In many poorer rural areas, vodka is even used to pay for services (RFE/RL) PRAGUE, August 15, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- It's been a dry summer in the far-flung villages of rural Tatarstan. Lack of water, though, is not the problem. A traditional antidote to the tedium of village life is suddenly and dramatically in short supply.

• August 11, 2006

  U.K. Plot Investigation Deepens

  August 11, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Great Britain remains on "critical" alert today following the breakup of an alleged terror plot aimed at blowing up aircraft.

• August 09, 2006

  Government To Invest In Disputed Kurile Islands

  Moscow has announced a $600 million investment program in the Kurile Islands. The move will not go down well in Tokyo.

• August 07, 2006

  Other Revolutions Take Note | Georgia and Kyrgyzstan look on

  After last week's drama in Ukraine's parliament, other former Soviet states that underwent "colored" revolutions reacted, some with trepidation, others with cautious praise.

• July 28, 2006

  Russia: Supreme Court Approves List Of 17 'Terrorist' Groups

  Leaflets and literature disseminated by Hizb ut-Tahrir (archive) (RFE/RL) PRAGUE, July 28, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Russia today published a list of 17 organizations that it said had been identified as "terrorist" by the national Supreme Court.

• July 28, 2006

  Tbilisi Launches Political Assault In Abkhazia

  Having successfully flexed its military muscle in Abkhazia, the Georgian government is going on the offensive politically.

• July 27, 2006

  Russia Convicted | Strasbourg rules in Chechnya 'disappearance' case

  PRAGUE, July 27, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- In a landmark ruling, the European Court of Human Rights has held Russia responsible for the disappearance and presumed death of a Chechen man.

• July 20, 2006

  Saakashvili Seeks Meeting With Putin

  With bilateral relations at a low point, Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Merab Antadze is in Moscow to prepare the ground for a possible meeting between the leaders of Georgia and Russia leaders during an informal CIS summit that begins in the Russian capital on July 21.

• July 18, 2006

  Prime Minister's Wife Treads On Kremlin Toes

  Cherie Blair, the wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, has risked raising the Kremlin's ire by offering to help Russian human rights activists challenge new legislation in the European Court of Human Rights.

• July 10, 2006

  Death Of Basayev Confirmed

  PRAGUE, July 10, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Shamil Basayev, the most wanted man in Russia, is dead, according to Federal Security Service (FSB) head Nikolai Patrushev.

• June 30, 2006

  OSCE Catches Region Off Guard

  In an interview with RFE/RL, the U.S. official tasked with mediating peace talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave indicated he and fellow diplomats had done as much as they could to foster a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

• June 27, 2006

  Astana Flexes Its Muscles In South Caucasus

  Kazakhstan's decision to sign up to the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline sends a signal to Russia that the Central Asian giant is starting to punch its weight. It may also suggest it is developing a more muscular foreign policy.

• June 20, 2006

  Return To Moscow

  An RFE/RL correspondent who lived in Moscow throughout the 1990s returns to find a city that is nearly unrecognizable to the one he last saw three years ago.

• June 14, 2006

  Putin-Saakashvili Talks Highlight Differences

  Talks between the presidents of Russia and Georgia in St. Petersburg appear not to have resolved any of the outstanding differences between the two countries.

• June 02, 2006

  Russian Prosecutor-General Steps Down

  PRAGUE, June 2, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- The upper house of Russia's parliament voted today to accept the request of the country's long-standing prosecutor-general, Vladimir Ustinov, to step down.

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