10 December: South Ossetian de facto President Eduard Kokoity has agreed to step down later today as part of a compromise agreement with opposition leader and former presidential candidate Alla Dzhioyeva, a source in the South Ossetian presidential admini
The French National Assembly Commission for Constitutional Laws, Legislation and General Administration of the Republic has passed the bill authored by Valerie Boyer of the Union for Popular Movement (UMP) by the proposal of several Senate members.
The draft resolution entitled "Situation in the 'occupied territories' of Azerbaijan" has been again removed from agenda of UN General Assembly at the request of Baku.
9 November: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday of instigating public protests against the State Duma elections as tens of thousands signed up to rally over the weekend. (Moscow Times) The Mosc
December 8: Today marks the 20th anniversary of the meeting between leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha Natural Reserve in Belarus in 1991 and the signing of an agreement to set up the Commonwealth of Independent States (CI
7 December: The border between South Ossetia and Russia was closed Tuesday following a grenade attack on the home of the breakaway region's prosecutor and a decision to throw out a court appeal by presidential hopeful Alla Dzhioyeva (Kommersant)