Belarus
EU enlargement commissioner: Eastern Partnership 'absolutely a success'
May 14, 2010By Jan Maksymiuk There are concerns the European Union's market crisis will dramatically scale back its ambitions for outreach programs with its neighbors -- including its Eastern Partnership. The initiative was launched with fanfare just over a year...
Kyrgyzstan orders ousted president's extradition from Belarus
May 05, 2010Kyrgyzstan's interim government have ordered prosecutors to seek the extradition of former President Kurmanbek Bakiev, who was ousted in a violent revolt last month. Farid Niyazov, a spokesman for the interim government, told RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service...
Press freedom, globally, suffered more setbacks in 2009
April 29, 2010By Richard Solash, Nikola Krastev The world's press became less free in 2009, experiencing another year of setbacks. Among the top offenders were Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Iran, and Russia. That's according to a new report by the Washington...
Kyrgyz authorities appeal for international support
April 22, 2010By Erica Marat Kyrgyzstan’s provisional government needs international support, oversight Kurmanbek Bakiyev was pressured by the OSCE, United States and European Union to leave Kyrgyzstan. On April 15, Kazakhstan dispatched a military aircraft...
April 20, 2010As its deposed president arrives in Belarus, the country's interim rulers try to restore order following deadly rioting Kyrgyzstan's interim rulers are trying to restore order following unrest on the outskirts of the capital, Bishkek, that left at least...
Moscow steadily entangles Belarus into the Russian orbit
March 31, 2010By David Marples The mid-March visit by Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, to Belarus stimulated further speculation over the tense and fluctuating relationship between the two Slavic neighbors. Putin arrived in the city of Brest for a regular...
Moscow’s imperialist attitudes pushing non-Russian countries away
March 30, 2010By Paul Goble Russia’s counterproductive and off-putting approach to Belarus as well as other former Soviet republics reflects “the presumptuous imperial thought which still has not left the heads of certain Russian politicians,&rdquo...
Belarus' Aleksander Lukashenko, European chess master
March 04, 2010By Pavol Demeš When Aleksander Lukashenko, the authoritarian president of Belarus, began a recent campaign to intimidate and punish members of the country’s disobedient Polish community, he opened a new front not only with neighboring...
‘Russian mafia’ abroad now numbers 300,000
March 01, 2010By Paul Goble After avoiding any use of the term “Russian mafia” in the last few years, law enforcement personnel in Europe and elsewhere are now speaking about it again, noting that it includes “up to 300,000 people” and dominates...
The UK Spectator: Let us help plucky Moldova
March 01, 2010The Spectator, a well-known British weekly, published an editorial by Daniel Korski bout Moldova in its Saturday issue. The article is called "Let us help plucky Moldova" and urges the European Union to take a more pro-active approach in helping...