Eurasia Press & News

On this photo Kvachkov looks very much like a Hollywood character: Dr. Hannibal Lecktor    Colonel of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), Vladimir Kvachkov, who was recently acquitted of charges with an assassination attempt on Anatoly Chibais, announced last Friday that he resumes his “military and political work”, as Russian media …

Bank of Russia would like to find out how the Russian population will react if the 1-kopeck and 5-kopeck coins get withdrawn from the circulation, as Director of Department of Cash Circulation of Russia’s Central Bank, Alexander Yurov, said at the conference entitled “Circulation of Cash Currency: Models, Standards, Trends”.

The New York Times writes that Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev said during his meeting with the foreign journalists the other day that the United States is now in “deep crisis” and the US has no right to give any advises to other countries on how to conduct their policies.

Blasts and arsons in the gang formations called the “Russian Army” are continuing. July 1 an “unidentified explosive device” was set off on one of the launchpads of the Russian invaders’ missile base 40 km away from the city of Barnaul in Altai, which Russia invaded and is now retaining …

For censorship considerations, Russian media have concealed from their readers the fact that Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves left not only the conference room in protest of the slander against Estonia voiced at the so-called “Fifth World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples”, but he also left Russia and returned to Tallinn …

Britain’s leading spy was today fighting for his life after he mysteriously fell into a coma. Alex Allan, the head of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, was found unconscious at his west London home on Monday and taken to hospital.

The Strasbourg Court has classified the case about the events that happened in the fall of 2002 in the theatrical center in Moscow. Moscow-based RIA-Novosti news agency reported that this information came from the attorney of the victims of the theater seizure, Igor Trunov.   “From the negotiations with the …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will reject a call by the United States for international mediators to take a bigger role in defusing a row with Georgia, Interfax news agency quoted a Russian diplomatic source as saying on Friday.

PARIS (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Lebanese counterpart Michel Suleiman will meet in Paris on Saturday ahead of a summit of EU and Mediterranean leaders, the French president’s office said on Friday.

(Reuters) – Lebanese leaders agreed on a unity government on Friday that gave Hezbollah and its allies a blocking minority as agreed under a deal that ended a paralyzing political conflict in the country. Here is a chronology of Lebanon in the last 20 months.