To the extent that he focused on Russia at all, Barack Obama’s attention was concentrated primarily on the need to keep Soviet nuclear weapons stockpiles out of the hands of terrorists.

President-elect Barack Obama spoke by telephone with the leaders of six more US allies to express thanks for their fulsome messages of congratulation, news agencies report. Russian President is not on Obama’s list as before.

A clandestine agreement between the new Pakistani leadership and the US allows American drones to strike targets inside the restive tribal belt where suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban militants are reportedly taking shelter.

Sources in the Province of Nokhchicho (Ichkeria) of the Caucasus Emirate reported that the appointment of officer of GRU (Russia’s military intelligence) Yevkurov as a ringleader of puppet regime in Magas instead of officer of the FSB (Russian Secret Service) Zyazikov, dismayed the ringleader of Chechen apostates Kadyrov.

The gangs “Zapad/West” (Kakiyevans) and “Vostok/East” (Yamadayevans) of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division of the Russian Ministry of Defense, deployed in the occupied territory of the Province of Chechnya of the Caucasus Emirate, have been disbanded; is was announced by one of Russia’s military ringleaders “General-Colonel” Vladimir Moltenskoy.

The position of top commander in Dagestan’s Sharia Jamaat has been vacant for a month now since the death of its former leader Abdul-Majjid on September 8th near the Dagestan-Azeri border during a joint Russo-Azeri special forces operation that lasted over 10 days

In 2010 the people of Chechnya will have a rare opportunity to see the Bedouin tent in which the leader of the Libyan revolution, Muammar bin Muhammad Abu Menyar Abdel Salam bin Hamed, better known as Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, traditionally prefers to stay. The tent will be pitched in the …

The bear is back. That’s what all too many Russia-watchers have been saying since Russian troops steamrolled Georgia in August, warning that the country’s strongman, Vladimir Putin, was clawing his way back toward superpower status.

Russian stocks fell, extending yesterday’s record drop, as a plan by President Dmitry Medvedev to lend billion to banks wasn’t enough to convince investors the government can halt its worst financial crisis since 1998.

Russia has appointed Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, a paratroop commander, as the new pupppet leader of Ingushetia.   Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s president, dismissed Murat Zyazikov as president of the region, which is a federal subject of Russia, in an attempt to quell unrest there.