15 December: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will take part in the last Russia-EU summit of his presidential career in Brussels on Thursday, amid growing condemnation in Europe of Russia’s alleged parliamentary vote rigging.The summit will be attended b
14 December: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev reiterated on Tuesday his pledge to carefully investigate all alleged violations in the December 4 parliamentary elections and take “fair decisions” based on probe results. President Medvedev called on Tuesda
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
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.