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

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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