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Bosnia: Scandals Spice Up Election Race

Political parties are suspected of engineering scandals in a bid to undermine their opponents in forthcoming elections.

22 May 02

With Heidar Aliev's visit to Moscow, Azerbaijan and Russia have buried more of their differences.

1 Feb 02

Right-wing nationalists in Croatia fail to capitalise on the government's dismal economic performance

14 Nov 01

Hundreds of women tricked into years of working as unpaid prostitutes return home to be treated as outcasts, even criminals.

12 Oct 01

Osama bin Laden's links with Azerbaijan stretch back to the mid-nineties

5 Oct 01

Romanian plans to join NATO are threatened by the government's inability to come up with the funds to reform its armed forces.

10 Aug 01

Rival groups claim the Adygeans have no right to call the North Caucasus their "ethnic homeland"

21 May 01

Chechnya's rival leaders are waging a war of words in cyberspace

23 Mar 01

The Macedonian government is rocked by wire-tapping accusations.

24 Jan 01

The blaze of publicity which surrounded the hijacking of a Russian aeroplane last week could well serve the interests of Islamic extremist groups

17 Nov 00

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