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Final results are in from Sunday’s Moldovan elections. The Communist Party, as expected, triumphed, but not by as many votes as predicted. Here’s the breakdown of the three parties that forced their way over...

Moldova’s parliamentary election is today.  Here’s a (very) basic outline for those of you unfamiliar with Moldova. The 101-seat parliament that is elected today will go on to elect the country’s...

Wouldn’t you know it?  I spend hours slaving over a hot computer to bring you the very latest news from Russia and its near abroad, and what happens?  Instead of publishing it to the site, I save it in...

Although very few people in the world really know what Presidents George W Bush and Vladimir Putin talked about in their summit, leaks are beginning to trickle out. I found this one from Time Magazine particularly...

Lyndon at Scraps of Moscow describes the following broadcast on Russian tv: I was just watching the 10pm news on NTV, and they showed a segment from Chechnya, where a group of Chechen fighters had been apparently...

Sunday is the big day for elections in Central Asia where voters will be going to the polls in both Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.  Nathan at The Argus is posting daily news roundups – here’s the latest...

Today is a day of anniversaries.  Firstly it’s Defender of the Fatherland Day, a public holiday more commonly known as Army Day or Men’s Day, when Russia traditionally celebrates the glory of its...

Bush’s ‘peacemaking’ tour of Europe began with a speech in which he called for Europe (well, the EU) and America to work together to spread freedom and peace throughout the world.  Several states...

Daniel Drezner discusses a Peter Savodnik article which compares the different approaches of the EU and the US to aid and democracy promotion in Belarus.  The US directed much of its funding to groups opposed to...

All quiet on the work front today, so sit back and enjoy a bumper roundup of this week’s Russia news. Foreign Policy The Kyoto Protocol comes into effect today amid concerns in Russia that its inefficient energy...