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New cars stuck in limbo as crisis begins to bite As the credit crisis spreads, car dealers are turning back deliveries of new vehicles. Hundreds of unsold cars line the road to Moscow as Renault Russia claims it has nowhere to put them. Truck drivers are threatening...

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Suspected Georgian war crimes uncovered by the BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation is reporting that it has obtained evidence suggesting that Georgia may have committed war crimes during its attack on South Ossetia in August. The BBC says it gathered the evidence...

The show must go on! Rada rejects election funding bill Legislators in Ukraine have voted against a bill on ballot funding. So the battle over the early election continues.

Czech MPs debate U.S. missile defence deal The lower house of the Czech parliament is debating whether to allow the U.S. to build an anti-missile shield base on its territory, and the status of any foreign forces on Czech soil. The two countries signed the deal...

Authorities deny Jews right to mark Kristallnacht The debris from two days of organised violence against Jews in Nazi Germany almost seventy years ago has been discovered in what has been described as a major historical site.

Wednesday’s Press Review This Wednesday Russian newspapers explore the prospect of a monetary alliance of Russia and China against the U.S. dollar, analyse the arms trade scandal in Georgia and argue about the future of global governance. Here...

Ukraine on the brink of financial collapse Inflation in Ukraine will accelerate and the country will find itself on the brink of a default without financing from the International Monetary Fund, according to the chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine Chairman,...

Pakistan quake kills 130 At least 130 people have been killed and 35 injured in a strong earthquake in south-western Pakistan. Hundreds of mud houses have been destroyed and it's feared many more people have been buried alive in their homes by...

Italy wraps up its round up of the Roma Widespread negative public opinion of Roma gypsies recently prompted Italy’s conservative government to launch a controversial profiling campaign as part of a pledge to crack down on street crime and curb crime levels.

Paving the way for the Libyan leader A delegation from Libya is now in Moscow to prepare for the official visit of the country’s leader Muammar Gaddafi, which will take place from October 31 to November 2. It is expected that multi-billion-dollar arms...

The knot is tied Russia has made the final step in cementing ties with South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The lower chamber of parliament has approved friendship pacts with the two republics.

Corruption: time to take the gloves off Despite the ongoing battle against corruption, graft has been a blight on Russia for generations. The black economy today is worth an estimated $US 300 billion annually. Discussions are now underway to develop new...

War photos show horror of Ossetian conflict A photo exhibition of the five-day war between Georgia and South Ossetia is opening in Moscow. The images were shot by the Ria Novosti news agency, whose correspondents and photographers were at work within hours of the...

Obama and McCain battle for key states With just a week to go before Election Day, the U.S. presidential candidates have taken their contest to the battleground state of Pennsylvania. Wet weather forced John McCain to call off an outdoor rally, but...

American nukes are storage time bomb - Gates U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, says he’s not happy with the way his country is storing its atomic weapons. Gates says Russia does a much better job. He is also calling for a new agreement to reduce the number...

Bank regulator's murder: businessman convicted A jury in Moscow has found businessman Aleksey Frenkel guilty of organising the contract killing of Andrey Kozlov, the Deputy Chairman of Russia's Central Bank. Kozlov, who was on the frontline in the struggle against...

Why is Ukraine talking about famine? Russia’s ambassador to the UN has accused Ukraine of using the great famine of the 1930s to take people's minds off more urgent problems at home. Vitaly Churkin says leaders in Kiev are dredging up 'holodomor' to...

Don’t help Georgia rearm - Lavrov Russia's Foreign Minister has warned the EU not to stand by and allow Georgia spend billions of dollars in aid on re-equiping its depleted military forces. Sergey Lavrov delivered the blunt message at a meeting with...

Vandals deface Russian monument in Ukraine Police in Ukraine are hunting vandals who covered a statue of eighteenth-century Russian Empress Catherine the Great in yellow and blue paint – the colours of the Ukrainian flag. It's thought the monument in...

Case is moving too fast - Karadzic Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has appeared before The Hague tribunal for a pre-trial hearing.

Tobacco industry to go up in smoke? The British government is planning a crushing blow against tobacco companies. Fancy cigarette packs should be replaced by standardised white boxes, think the country’s health guards.

Russian weapons exports won’t suffer - Medvedev Sanctions imposed by the U.S. on Russia's military export monopoly and main military equipment exporter, Rosoboronexport, equals unfair competition, says President Dmitry Medvedev. He also called on other weapons...

Tuesday's Press Review This Tuesday Russian newspapers explore the U.S. dollar bubble, reveal Russia's reasons for participation in the about-to-be-born natural gas cartel, look into the economic foreign policy of Belarus and publish the...

Caucasus tension in spotlight at UN Russia wants to exclude any possibility of further Georgian aggression against South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Canada to deport U.S. ex-Sergeant who refused to fight in Iraq Sergeant Hart defected from the Iraq war in 2004, and has been living in Canada for the past three years with his wife and son. Now Hart has been ordered to return to the U.S. to face charges and imprisonment, despite...

Russia-EU partnership media briefing Foreign ministers from Russia and the European Union have held a media briefing following a meeting in St. Petersburg.

“Georgian soldiers were doped to kill civilians” Many of the Georgian soldiers who took part in the attack on South Ossetia in August were drugged before going into combat, according to a Moscow-based human rights group.

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