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

British photographer wins CENTER Award 2012 for her latest story, The National Womb from Nagorno Karabakh

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

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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

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9 April: The attack on Novaya Gazeta journalist Yelena Milashina could be connected to her work as a journalist and should be investigated accordingly, Human Rights Watch said in a statement on its website.(Moscow Times). At least three activists were arr

South Ossetia finally elects new President ending months of tension, but many questions remain unanswered about the future of the territory.