Eurasia Press & News
TEHRAN (FNA)- Representatives of Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan and representatives of international companies convened in the port of Astrakhan, Russia on Thursday to attend the first Intergovernmental Economic Conference of the Caspian littoral states.
Read More »Russia hosts German leader to mend ties
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in St Petersburg in Russia, helping to mend ties between the two countries.
Read More »EU monitors enter Georgian buffer zones
NABAKHTEVI, Georgia (Reuters) – EU monitors entered a Russian-controlled buffer zone around Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia for the first time Wednesday in what they said was a smooth start to their peacekeeping operation.
Read More »EU sees human face of South Ossetia conflict
ODZISI, Georgia (Reuters) – Riding in a rickety truck laden with furniture, Zina Zakarashvili gave European Union ceasefire monitors an early glimpse on Wednesday of the human face of the conflict between Russia and Georgia.
Read More »Russia examines rail link to South Ossetia
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia is considering blasting a railway line through the Caucasus mountains to link up with South Ossetia, the breakaway region of Georgia over which Moscow and Tbilisi fought a war in August.
Read More »European, Russian policymakers urge U.S. to pass bailout
FRANKFURT/MOSCOW (Reuters) – European and Russian policymakers urged U.S. politicians to pass a new version of a $700 billion bank rescue package on Wednesday as a new Senate vote on the bailout loomed.
Read More »Ingush man escapes torturers
Ingush man was in critical condition at a city hospital Thursday after escaping from a Moscow basement where he was reportedly held captive and tortured by law enforcers as revenge for the 2004 Beslan school seizure.
Read More »Ruslan Yamadayev gunned down in Moscow
A brother of the GRU’s (The Main Intelligence Directorate) “Vostok” gang ringleader Sulim Yamadayev, Ruslan (Khalid) Yamadayev shot dead in central Moscow Wednesday, Russian news agencies reported.
Read More »Ruslan Yamadaev was killed
Brother of the ringleader of one of the puppet formations in Chechnya, Ruslan Yamadaev was killed right after he had a meeting in the Kremlin with a top-ranked assistant of the Kremlin’s ringleader Medvedev. It was the reason for the former occupational commandant of Chechnya currently retired General-Colonel Sergei Kizyun’s …
Read More »Mujahideen conducted a successful military operation in the village of Chishki
In a telephone conversation with editorial staff of ChechenCenter website, commander of Urus-Martan sector of Armed Forces of the Caucasus Emirate Amir Abdul-Malik said that on Monday, Ramadan 22, 1429 (September 22, 2008), a unit of the Mujahideen under command of Amir Ilyas attacked special group of Russian infidels/mercenaries in …
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