Putin offers surprise truce to tycoonsRUSSIA: President Vladimir Putin has offered an unexpected truce to Russia's nervous tycoons by pledging not to investigate …Fri Mar 25 2005 - 00:00
Kyrgyz president flees country after protestsKYRGYZSTAN: President Askar Akayev has fled Kyrgyzstan after thousands of protesters, complaining about rigged elections, poverty…Fri Mar 25 2005 - 00:00
Tough warning goes out to Kyrgyz protestersKYRGYZSTAN: Kyrgyzstan's new hard-line interior minister warned anti-government protesters in the south of the Central Asian…Thu Mar 24 2005 - 00:00
Russian anger as Warsaw junction is named after Chechen rebelRussia-Poland: Russia and Poland are at odds for the second time this month over Warsaw's alleged support for Chechen separatist…Wed Mar 23 2005 - 00:00
Estonian parties search for new prime ministerEstonia: Estonia's political elite began preparing yesterday for emergency talks to form a new government following the shock…Wed Mar 23 2005 - 00:00
Croats warn of possible backlash against BrusselsCROATIA: Most Croats appeared sanguine yesterday over the postponement of talks to join the European Union, despite warnings…Thu Mar 17 2005 - 00:00
Kosovo leader flies to war crimes trialThe Hague: A day after resigning as Kosovo's prime minister, Ramush Haradinaj arrived at the UN tribunal in The Hague yesterday…Thu Mar 10 2005 - 00:00
US 'friendly fire' kills BulgarianBulgaria: A Bulgarian soldier will be buried today after being shot dead by US troops in Iraq last Friday, just hours before…Tue Mar 08 2005 - 00:00
Monitors cite flaws in Central Asian pollsCENTRAL ASIA: Sunday's general elections in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan were riddled with irregularities, Western monitors and…Tue Mar 01 2005 - 00:00
Opposition candidates claim polls unfair in Kyrgyzstan, TajikistanKYRGYZSTAN/TAJIKISTAN: The United States and Russia closely watched general elections in two remote Central Asian states yesterday…Mon Feb 28 2005 - 00:00
Iran-Russia deal to fuel tensions with USRUSSIA/IRAN: Russia agreed yesterday to supply fuel to an atomic power station in Iran that the United States suspects of being…Mon Feb 28 2005 - 00:00
Embattled Putin 'satisfied' after summit with tough-talking BushRUSSIA: President Vladimir Putin returned to Russia last night from Slovakia, declaring himself satisfied with his summit meeting…Sat Feb 26 2005 - 00:00
Bratislava - where everyone was safe for at least one dayThe border guard's diligence suggested unusual events at our destinationFri Feb 25 2005 - 00:00
Serbia rejects split from MontenegroSERBIA: Serbia bluntly dismissed Montenegro's request for separation yesterday, and insisted their fraught union continue for…Thu Feb 24 2005 - 00:00
Serbia's president on visit to KosovoKosovo: Serbia's president, Mr Boris Tadic, rejected the possibility of independence for Kosovo yesterday, on the first visit…Mon Feb 14 2005 - 00:00
Dismissed for not predicting cold snapROMANIA: Mr Ion Poiana, the head of Romania's National Meteorology Agency, was fired for failing to predict accurately a cold…Fri Feb 11 2005 - 00:00
Belgrade shows willingness to surrender war crimes fugitivesSERBIA: One of the most senior Serb generals to surrender to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague is due to appear there …Mon Feb 07 2005 - 00:00
Wallenberg's 'protective passes' saved thousands of livesHolocaust: More than 20,000 names sit alongside that of Oskar Schindler on the list of non-Jews honoured by Israel for saving…Tue Jan 25 2005 - 00:00
Rebels die in battles near ChechnyaCHECHNYA: Russian security forces were searching yesterday for the bodies of several militants believed killed in two fierce…Mon Jan 17 2005 - 00:00
Storms wreak havoc in northern EuropeEUROPE: The same storm system that has lashed Ireland and prompted a flood warning for the River Shannon yesterday killed at…Tue Jan 11 2005 - 00:00
Mesic looks set for second term as Croatia's presidentCROATIA: Mr Stipe Mesic looked set to win a second term as Croatia's president yesterday, and lead the Balkan nation towards…Mon Jan 03 2005 - 00:00
Croatia likely to re-elect Mesic in weekend pollCROATIA: Croatia chooses a president to lead it into the European Union this weekend, in elections overshadowed by the country…Fri Dec 31 2004 - 00:00
Chinese firm may get 20% of former Yukos assetA Chinese firm could take one-fifth of the state-owned Russian company that will control the former jewel in the crown of the…Fri Dec 31 2004 - 00:00
Russian hero prize deridedRussia: Human rights groups have poured scorn on President Vladimir Putin for bestowing Russia's highest award for valour on…Thu Dec 30 2004 - 00:00
Putin accuses West of backing revolutionsRUSSIA: Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West yesterday of fomenting revolution across the former Soviet Union and…Fri Dec 24 2004 - 00:00
Yukos production unit sold for half price at $9.3bnRussian President Vladimir Putin yesterday fiercely defended the state's purchase of Yukos's main production unitFri Dec 24 2004 - 00:00
Romanian president names reformist PMROMANIA: Romanian President Traian Basescu nominated his new prime minister yesterday, and hailed the start of a new, corruption…Thu Dec 23 2004 - 00:00
Bosnia facing crisis as third Serb official quitsBosnia: Bosnia edged closer to political crisis last night after the government of the ethnically divided country lost its third…Tue Dec 21 2004 - 00:00
No choice offered to Turkmenistan electorateTURKMENISTAN: A week before Ukraine is expected to vote its ex-Communist rulers out of office, Turkmenistan's parliamentary …Mon Dec 20 2004 - 00:00
Premier of Serb region in Bosnia resigns over sackingsBOSNIA: The prime minister of Bosnia's Serb-run region resigned yesterday over the sacking of nine of his security officials…Sat Dec 18 2004 - 00:00
Ashdown fires Bosnian Serb officialsBOSNIA: The international community's envoy to Bosnia, Lord Ashdown, sacked nine security officials from the country's Serb-…Fri Dec 17 2004 - 00:00
Win for a sharp and witty political noviceROMANIA: When Traian Basescu tearfully accepted his party's nomination for president, few gave the former sea captain a chance…Tue Dec 14 2004 - 00:00
Basescu pledges to rid Romania of povertyROMANIA: Mr Traian Basescu pledged yesterday to rid Romania of poverty and corruption after his shock victory over Prime Minister…Tue Dec 14 2004 - 00:00
Serbian president survives 'assassination attack'SERBIA: Serbia's President, Mr Boris Tadic, said yesterday that a car had tried to ram his motorcade, in what his party called…Thu Dec 02 2004 - 00:00
Mystery surrounds freeing of Polish hostagePOLAND: Mystery surrounds the freeing of a Polish woman by her Iraqi kidnappers after she unexpectedly reappeared in Warsaw …Mon Nov 22 2004 - 00:00
US angers Greece by recognising state's right to call itself MacedoniaThe United States infuriated Greece yesterday by recognising a neighbouring state's right to call itself Macedonia, a name which…Fri Nov 05 2004 - 00:00
Fears of Russian influence in Lithuania as new coalition formedLITHUANIA: Lithuania's outgoing government bowed to pressure yesterday from a Russian-born pickles tycoon to form a new ruling…Thu Nov 04 2004 - 00:00
US issues Nordic, Baltic security warningUS citizens warned: On the eve of the presidential election, the United States sent out a terror warning yesterday to its citizens…Tue Nov 02 2004 - 00:00
Latvia cabinet forced to resignLATVIA: Latvia's government collapsed yesterday over its plans for the Baltic state's 2005 budget, putting Europe's only Green…Fri Oct 29 2004 - 01:00
Investigator says Beslan gunmen were using unknown drugRUSSIA: The gunmen who carried out the bloody school siege in Beslan last month were drug addicts fortified by an unknown and…Thu Oct 21 2004 - 01:00
Kremlin will sell Yukos assets to cover tax billThe Russian government will break up the main production unit of embattled energy giant Yukos and put part of it up for sale …Wed Oct 13 2004 - 01:00
EU sees progress as Serbs hand over war crimes suspectBUDAPEST: The European Union tried to draw a line yesterday under recent disputes with Serbia and Montenegro, saying it would…Tue Oct 12 2004 - 01:00
Election win for pickle magnate's party in LithuaniaLITHUANIA: A Russian-born pickle magnate celebrated victory in Lithuania's general elections last night, as his recently formed…Mon Oct 11 2004 - 01:00
Tadic speech infuriates rivalsSerbia: Serb ultra-nationalists and allies of ousted leader Slobodan Milosevic threatened to impeach President Boris Tadic yesterday…Sat Oct 09 2004 - 01:00
Centre-right party leads in Slovenia pollSLOVENIA: Slovenia's prime minister conceded last night that his party was facing its first general election defeat since the…Mon Oct 04 2004 - 01:00
ConocoPhillips buys €1.6bn Lukoil stakeUS oil major ConocoPhillips sealed Russia's biggest post-Soviet privatisation yesterday, buying a 7Thu Sept 30 2004 - 01:00
Independence vote proved a turning point on Slovenia's road to successSlovenia: However the fateful decision 15 years ago today had bloody consequences in the rest of the Balkans, reports Daniel…Mon Sept 27 2004 - 01:00
Kazakh election marred by fraudKAZAKHSTAN: Kazakhstan's ruling party enjoyed a commanding lead yesterday in parliamentary elections marred by severe criticism…Tue Sept 21 2004 - 01:00
Man held over explosives in Moscow diesRUSSIA: Russian authorities were last night investigating the mysterious death in police custody of a man accused of driving…Mon Sept 20 2004 - 01:00
Early election results show Kazakh leader's party aheadKAZAKHSTAN: President Nursultan Nazarbayev's supporters dominated Kazakhstan's parliamentary poll yesterday, according to early…Mon Sept 20 2004 - 01:00
