Check out with whom the Russian President met between 12 and 13 May in Sochi.
The new President of the Russian Federation paid his first (un)official visit - he went to Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia.
The end of romance: complicated relations among natural allies and natural adversaries in the region. Who is who in the Georgia-Iran-Israel-Russia-US pentagon?
Georgia participated in planning the terrorist attack scheduled for 2014 in Krasnodar Krai, the Russian Anti-terrorism Committee claims.[caption id="attachment_49928" align="aligncenter" width="580" caption="Doku Umarov, source: en.wikipedia.org"][/caption]The Russian Anti-terrorism Committee announced that ...
A photo of a child pedaling towards an OMON cordon becomes an Internet iconic image of today's protests in Moscow, Russia, held on the eve of the presidential inauguration of ...
Georgia will conduct transparent, democratic and fair parliamentary elections in the autumn 2012. To prove it, President Mikheil Saakashvili invites international observers. Through monitoring the process, they are to show ...
The 19th round of talks in Geneva since the 2008 conflict in Georgia.
Watch: US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul versus a Russian journalist from NTV channel. Is the Ambassador under surveillance?
Former KGB chief Leonid Shebarshin, 77, shot himself in Moscow.
On 26 March, the commercial air traffic between Minsk and Moscow was suspended. The cause were, most probably, carriers competing for operation of the lucrative flights.Tu – 134 A of ...
Peter Semneby, former EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus, on the EU - Russia - South Caucasus triangle.
The Syrian regime imports 17 percent of their weapons from Russian and another17 percent from Belarus, according to the report of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Is the Eurasian Union modeled after the European Union?
Russia has voted fairly and in accordance with democratic standards (read a Polish comment). And watch a video here.
INVITATION to the international interdisciplinary student-PhD student scientific conference: “Russia 2012. Retrospective and perspectives” organized by: Around Russia Scientific Circle, UJ Politologists' Circle of the Ignatianum Academy Eastern Circle, UJ in cooperation with the Eastern Initiative Institute The conference ...
After four years that passed since the five-day war in 2008, Georgia proposed introduction of visa-free traffic with its northern neighbour. In response, Russia submitted a similar proposal. But the ...
Thomas de Waal in Foreign Policy explains the post-Soviet reality with the aid of the Russian classic writers: Gogol, Chekhov and Dostoyevsky. A must-read.
Vladimir Putin writes about challenges of foreign policy that Russia faces. China, Iran, the US, Syria - checked. What about Eastern Europe? The Russian PM has almost totally forgotten...
"A Russian democrat ceases to be a democrat where talks on Ukraine start", wrote former President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma in his book "Ukraine Is Not Russia". This old saying ...
Have some time? Visit the website of the project "No Such Country" - Russian Lenta.ru prepared plenty of materials about the post-Soviet region.
There's more to the Soviet landscape than dirty grey blocks of flats. French photographer Frederic Chaubin presents "Cosmic Constructions" of the Soviet architects.
Saturday Moscow protests gathered 120,000 people in Bolotnaya Square, under banners "Russia without Putin and for fair elections"; meanwhile, Putin's followers organized an "anti-orange" rally on Poklonnaya Gora.
Russian Untouchables. Moscow scenes from lives of immigrants. Great photos by Denis Sinyakov.
Export of Georgia wine in 2011 increased by 37.7 percent, which provided the state budget with additional USD 54.1 million. These numbers are the biggest within last 5 years, and ...
A small breakthrough in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict at last: after four years of negotiations between feuding Armenia and Azerbaijan, an initial stage of agreement has been reached. The leaders of ...
I recommend the article "“Kreml potrzebuje wojny na Kaukazie”?" (Does the Kremlin need a war in the Caucasus - in Polish).
A great article by Taras Kuzio on how at its own request Ukraine damaged its status in the eyes of Russia.
The most intriguing concept: the EaP as the tool for reducing military presence of NATO and Russia in the Eastern European region simultaneously.
The Slon Portal presents the best of the best: the greatest articles of 2011.
About the "other man" who lost elections in Transnistria and South Ossetia: the future of Sergei Vinokurov.
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