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Russians are facing a massive dilemma regarding the recognition of their country's leader. President Dmitry Medvedev may be the man entrusted with the powers to take Russia forward towards economic and political superiority, yet his predecessor and the...

The post-cold war expansion of NATO has brought many former east bloc nations into the fold of American military influence. The securities of these newly independent nations require to be beefed up, but the coming of the Americans to the very threshold...

Most Western powers have been skeptical about the way Russian elections are held and the new government was seen as a body that is under the shadow of Vladimir Putin. Not surprisingly, the Medvedev government, which revealed the future foreign policies.

South Ossetia, a region which is legally a part of Georgia, is almost fully under the control of separatist groups that want to cede from Georgia and join the Russian region of North Ossetia. The nights here regularly see intermittent gun and mortar fire.

Just when world leaders where attending grand opening of Olympic games in Beijing, Russian tanks moved into South Ossetia to counter Georgia’s surprise attack on the region. Russia has sent tanks, troops and warplanes in to the region. In the...

A west-sponsored UN Security Council resolution against the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe has died pre-maturely after Russia and China vetoed it. Russia said that the resolution would have meant interference in internal matters of Zimbabwe. It has...

The events played out in Kosovo seem to be the handiwork of two master puppeteers, one the US and the west; the other Russia. One might say that it is a local Serbian problem. True, but Serbia and Kosovan Serbs would not become so emboldened as to...

When Russia was under Communist reign, the Russians were deprived of democratic rights. After the collapse of the USSR, the Russians thought that at last they would get some respite from the iron grasp of the Communists and would choose their own...

As a schoolboy he worked on construction sites and did washing jobs to earn money so that he could buy jeans and foreign records. His favourites then were Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. He is Dmitri Medvedev, likely to be the next president of Russia. He.

Russia might have progressed economically under Putin, but it has had to pay a price; of growing pressure on the freedom of press and right to free expression. The most glaring example is the cold-blooded murder of outspoken journalist, Anna...