Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Georgia

Ivanishvili Says Saakashvili May Be Prosecuted

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Outgoing Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili (right) and Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili (file photo)
» Ivanishvili Says Saakashvili May Be Prosecuted
22/10/13 08:46 from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Georgia's prime minister has said outgoing President Mikheil Saakashvili may face legal prosecution.
» Border Agency Head Steps Down Amid Financial Violations
22/10/13 08:31 from The Moscow Times Top Stories
Head of the Federal Agency for Border Maintenance Dmitry Bezdelov resigned from his post after an inquiry uncovered inappropriate use of budget funds by the agency, a news report said Tuesday, citing a source in the government.
» Russia's Demographic Revolution - National Review Online (blog)
22/10/13 08:09 from Russia - Google News
Russia's Demographic RevolutionNational Review Online (blog)The stabbing murder on October 10 of an ethnic Russian, Yegor Shcherbakov, 25, apparently by a Muslim from Azerbaijan, led to antimigrant disturbances in Moscow, vandalism a...
» IMF Outlines Reforms for Higher Russian Growth 
22/10/13 07:55 from The Moscow Times Top Stories
Russia needs to further strengthen its macroeconomic policy framework and implement supply-side reforms to reach higher sustainable growth, the International Monetary Fund said in an annual report on the country's economy.
» Snowden Inspires Russia to Boost Internet Spying - Bloomberg
22/10/13 07:36 from Russia - Google News
BloombergSnowden Inspires Russia to Boost Internet SpyingBloombergThe Russian communications ministry and KGB successor Federal Counterintelligence Service, or FSB, have drafted a regulation requiring Internet providers and mobile operat...
» The Rundown -- October 22
22/10/13 05:43 from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
RFE/RL in the Media # The Huffington Post cites Claire Bigg's report on the struggles of LGBT families in Russia  # Read Glenn Kates in "The Atlantic" on a feline drug smuggler in Moldova   Middle East # "Israel and the New Middle East"...
» Echoes of the Past: Punitive Psychiatry
22/10/13 02:53 from Home
In October, Russian activist Mikhail Kosenko, one of the accused in the "Bolotnaya Square Case," was sentenced to compulsory psychiatric treatment. This was the first instance of an open use of psychiatry for political purposes in post-...
» Dutch Want Tribunal to Make Russia Free Protesters - ABC News
22/10/13 02:11 from Russia - Google News
Dutch Want Tribunal to Make Russia Free ProtestersABC NewsThe Netherlands asked an international tribunal Monday to order Russia to release a Greenpeace protest ship and the activists who were on board. Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timme...
» Meteor that bombed Russia left telltale tracks seen from space (+video) - Christian Science Monitor
22/10/13 02:06 from Russia - Google News
Christian Science MonitorMeteor that bombed Russia left telltale tracks seen from space (+video)Christian Science MonitorWhen a huge meteor blazed across the sky over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in February, dashboard cameras in Russ...