Electoral Skullduggery Mars Georgian Poll
A shady political deal may have helped secure Eduard Shevardnadze's overwhelming presidential election victory
A shady political deal may have helped secure Eduard Shevardnadze's overwhelming presidential election victory
The troubled republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia is preparing to lock horns with Russia's most powerful oligarch
Armenian editors are mounting a concerted protest against the Nagorny Karabakh authorities after a Stepanakert journalist was jailed for libel last week
The public's lukewarm response to a planned anti-government rally in Belgrade is yet a further sign of its disillusionment with the opposition.
Eduard Shevardnadze hopes that an upsurge in the electricity supply on the eve of the presidential elections will blur bitter memories of winter deficits.
Up to 15 Russian officers could be disciplined for sending a unit of OMON troopers to their deaths. Worsening relations between the police and the military are threatening to split the high command
Armenia's former interior minister, the notorious Vano Siradeghian, skips bail as his murder trial enters its sixth month.
Most voters quietly accept that President Eduard Shevardnadze will win the April 9 elections - but they bitterly resent the fact that there is no real alternative.
Journalists campaign to secure the release of an opposition journalist detained by the Nagorny Karabakh regime
The Georgian government is currently considering reforms aimed at breathing new life into the republic's ailing tourist trade