Rene van der Linden (file photo) (RFE/RL) January 22, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- The president of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, Rene van der Linden, today called for more funds to run the human rights watchdog.
Despite an agenda full of heavy topics, President Vladimir Putin and Chancellor Angela Merkel's meeting in Sochi offered more style than substance.
With nationalists taking a plurality in Serbia's January 21 parliamentary vote, the reformist parties are under pressure to resolve their differences.
Energy topped the agenda of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin since Germany took over the rotating EU and G8 presidencies.
Daniel Fried (file photo) (official site) January 22, 2006 -- A senior U.S. diplomat says the placing of a U.S. antimissile system on Polish and Czech soil would strengthen Europe's defenses against a rogue nuclear attack.
Vyacheslav Kovalenko (file photo) (InterPressNews) January 22, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Russia's ambassador to Georgia is due today to return to his post, nearly four months after leaving Tbilisi amid an intensifying row between the two countries, RFE/RL's Russian Service reported.
January 22, 2007 -- Russian news agencies report that a local television journalist was found dead today in the far eastern city of Vladivostok.
January 21, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel said after meeting today with Russian President Vladimir Putin that there is a need to avoid "irritations."
January 20, 2007 -- An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft has docked at the International Space Station after a journey from Earth. <p></p>
People commemorate the victims of the 1990 crackdown by the Soviet military in Baku on January 20 (RFE/RL) January 20, 2007 -- Hackers have attacked the website of a foundation run by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, accusing him of brutally suppressing a pro-independence demonstration in then Soviet Azerbaijan in January 1990.
Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiyev (file photo) (ITAR-TASS) January 20, 2007 -- President Vladimir Putin is visiting the Russian Republic of Tatarstan today for a meeting of the Tatar State Council presidium in Kazan.
Tatarstan's longtime leader, Mintimer Shaimiyev, awaits a Duma ruling on his republic's power-sharing agreement with Moscow as he reaches his 70th birthday.
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