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Romania and Moldova Square Up

Bucharest opposes neighbouring Moldova's swing back to Moscow.

6 Sep 05

America may have offered Milosevic's most trusted general lenient tribunal treatment in exchange for testifying against his old boss

6 Sep 05

A senior Albanian official has been implicated in a major drug trafficking operation.

6 Sep 05

There's growing speculation that the Yugoslav president is planning to flee the country.

6 Sep 05

Up until the last moment, no one knew whether the old despot would slip his noose again. But then the incredible happened.

6 Sep 05

Former Romanian president Ion Iliescu may be swept back into power on a wave of nostalgia for the Communist era.

6 Sep 05

Kostunica intervenes to help avert an escalation in violence between the Serbian forces and Albanian rebels in the south of the country

6 Sep 05

The manufactured campaign to glorify slain Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov carries a coded message from Moscow.

1 Sep 05

Corruption, bureaucracy helps caviar poaching to flourish in the Caspian.

25 Aug 05

Long tradition of intermarriage in Dagestan still going strong, despite warnings about the effect on the gene pool.

25 Aug 05

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