13 December: Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov, the owner of Russia's major Kommersant publishing house, has fired the holding CEO Andrey Galiev and editor-in-chief of the Kommersant Vlast magazine Maxim Kovalsky after they published photos with offensi

12 December: The president of the breakaway region of Transdniester has called for a weekend election to be scrapped because of what he said were "numerous violations" in voting.Incumbent Igor Smirnov has run de facto independent region of Moldo

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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

U.S. analytical expert:

French National Assembly Commission passes bill criminalizing Armenian Genocide denial

President of Armenia:

Azerbaijan once again removes draft resolution entitled "Situation in the 'occupied territories' of Azerbaijan" from agenda of UN GA

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