In his wide ranging speech to the Russian State Duma Vladimir Putin outlined his policies for the future, including his vision for the post-Soviet space.
12 April: Russia and Kazakhstan may revive a Soviet-era mega-project on the construction of a 1,900-km high-voltage power line linking Siberia, the Urals region, and Kazakhstan.(Kommersant)
12 April: Russia will soon sign an agreement with NATO on the multimodal transit of cargo from Afghanistan. All expert assessments of the NATO transit facility in the city of Ulyanovsk have been completed and local authorities are awaiting the final go-ah
Anastasia Taylor-Lind, photographer from London, has won the Project Award 2012, organized by CENTER, a non-profit photographic organization in Santa Fe.
11 April: U.S. Special Envoy for Strategic Stability and Missile Defense Ellen Tauscher said in an interview with the Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily that her country was ready to give Russia written guarantees that the U.S. missile shield will is not directed a
11 April: Nine terrorists have been killed by security services in the Stavropol region in Southern Russia since Monday evening in two separate firefights. A local Federal Security Service spokesperson said the terrorists had been planning attacks on Orth
A similar law adopted by Georgia after 2008 created controversy and Azerbaijan needs to ensure that the legislation will not create harmful and unexpected side effects.
10 April: Five Islamist insurgents were killed in a shootout with security forces on Tuesday morning in Russia’s southern Stavropol Region. The incident happened in the course of a special operation on one of the streets of the city of Mineralnye Vody. A