Eurasia Press & News
President Putin has said Russia could redirect its missiles to target Ukraine if Kyiv joined NATO. According to RFE/RL’s guest authors, that kind of talk is representative of an increasingly truculent foreign policy, which goes largely unchallenged by Russia’s political elite.
Read More »Nearly one-third of Moscow newborns are children of migrants
Thirty percent of the 101,344 newborns in Moscow last year were children of migrant parents from the former Soviet republics and other foreign countries, a share far greater than these groups now form in the city’s population and one that means their percentage of its residents will increase even if …
Read More »FACTBOX: Russian energy transit states
Russia’s relations with countries through which it ships gas, power and coal to Europe have been characterized by frequent disputes.
Read More »FACTBOX: U.S. reaction to Russia’s election
Following is initial reaction from U.S. officials and presidential candidates to the election on Sunday of Dmitry Medvedev as Russia’s next president. Medvedev vows to continue the policies of Vladimir Putin.
Read More »Medvedev wins Russian election with 70.23 pct
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Dmitry Medvedev has won 70.23 percent of the vote in Russia’s presidential election with 99.45 percent of the ballots counted, giving him an easy first round victory, preliminary results showed on Monday.
Read More »Russia reduces gas to Ukraine by a quarter
MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) – Russia’s gas monopoly Gazprom (GAZP.MM: Quote, Profile, Research) reduced supplies to Ukraine by a quarter on Monday, just hours after its chairman and Kremlin candidate Dmitry Medvedev won Russia’s presidential election.
Read More »Bookmakers lose interest in “shoo-in” Russia vote
MOSCOW (Reuters) – An Internet bookmaker has stopped taking bets on Russia’s presidential election because the outcome is so predictable.
Read More »Bush says doesn’t see Medvedev as Putin puppet
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President George W. Bush on Thursday dismissed the notion that Russia’s likely new president would be Vladimir Putin’s puppet but said he did not know how much power Dmitry Medvedev would wield with his predecessor still in the picture.
Read More »Murtadin ringleader again showed faithfulness to the murderers of Chechen people
According to sources in the Wilayah of Nokhchicho (Ichkeria) of the Caucasus Emirate, the head of murtadin Kadyrov announced the renaming of one of the streets of occupied Jokhar, in honor of Russian kuffar the murderers of the Chechen people – “84 Pskov Paratroopers Street”.
Read More »”The victory comes only to those who are patient”
In The Name Of Allah The Most Gracious The Most Merciful  Praise be to Allah, whom we praise and pray for help and forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allah from the evil of ourselves and the wickedness of our own deeds. Whomever Allah guides, cannot be led astray and …
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