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Ukrainian Blues: Viktor Yanukovych's Rise and Democracy's Fall
Alexander J. Motyl
In February 2010, Viktor Yanukovych made a remarkable political comeback. In the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election Yanukovych was accused of fraud and ousted by the Orange Revolution, which was led by Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko. Just over five years later, surrounded by his party's blue-and-white banners, Yanukovych became president
Ousted Kyrgyzstan president calls Sunday referendum illegitimate
Ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev said Monday that Sunday's referendum establishing a new constitution was illegitimate. He vehemently denied accusations that he was behind recent violence that killed scores of ethnic Uzbeks.
Russia pays Belarus for Europe gas transit
Russian energy giant Gazprom has paid Belarus $228 million for delivering natural gas to Europe, the Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti said Thursday.
Gazprom cuts supplies to Belarus further
Belarus has paid its natural gas debt to Russian energy giant Gazprom in full, a top Belarus government official said Wednesday, in the latest twist of a dispute that could affect Europe's energy supplies.
Belarus to stop Russian gas deliveries to Europe
Belarus' president has ordered the halt of Russian natural gas deliveries to Europe via Belarus, his office told CNN Tuesday.
Russia begins to restrict natural gas supplies to Belarus
Russia began to cut off natural gas supplies to Belarus on Monday as talks over unpaid debts continued, Russian state media reported.
Ousted Kyrgyz president says he will not return
Ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev said Monday that he had no intention of returning to power and hopes to remain in Belarus, Russia's Interfax news agency reported.
Ousted Kyrgyz president says he is country's leader
The ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev said Wednesday he still considers himself the country's president, even though he was forced to resign, according to news reports from Minsk, Belarus.
Fists fly in Ukraine parliament punch up
Lawmakers in Ukraine scuffled with each other, throwing punches and eggs, as parliament met Tuesday to ratify a treaty with Russia that extends the latter's navy presence in the Ukraine's Crimean peninsula until 2042.
Thousands protest Russia-Ukraine deal
Thousands of opposition demonstrators marched in front of the parliament building in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, protesting a deal reached earlier this week to extend Russia's military presence in the former Soviet Republic, national news media reported.
Russia, Ukraine agree on naval-base-for-gas deal
Russia's president and the newly elected president of Ukraine signed a landmark agreement on Wednesday that signals an end to years of enmity between the two former Soviet republics.
Kyrgyzstan to seek ousted president's extradition
Kyrgyzstan's interim government has said it will demand the extradition of the country's ousted president from Belarus once the investigation into the bloody massacre of April 7 is completed.
Ukraine to remove uranium stockpile
Ukraine announced Monday that it will get rid of all its highly enriched uranium, which can be used in nuclear weapons, within the next two years.
Yanukovich sworn in as Ukrainian president
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich pledged Thursday to make his country "a bridge between East and West" after being sworn into office in Kiev.
CNN exclusive: Ukraine's Yanukovich: I'm no Kremlin stooge
The man leading Ukraine's presidential election called on his rival Tuesday to accept defeat, and he vowed to unite Ukraine after an election that has split the country in two.
Leader ousted by Ukraine's 'Orange Revolution' set to return
In a remarkable comeback, former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich seemed set Monday to become the president of Ukraine -- five years after he was ousted in a populist pro-Western uprising dubbed the "Orange Revolution."
Exit polls show Yanukovich leads Ukraine presidential election
Exit polls showed former Ukraine Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich as the victor over current populist Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the runoff of the nation's presidential elections.
Soros: In revolutionary times the impossible becomes possible
From the mid-1980s, Hungarian-born investor and philanthropist George Soros pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into foundations in Eastern Europe dedicated to promoting the idea of the "open society" and challenging the region's Soviet-backed regimes. Since then his Open Society Institute has evolved into a network of foundations and offices working in over 60 countries. Here, writing exclusively for CNN.com, he describes how the work of his foundations ultimately contributed to the collapse of communism.
20 years after wall fell, study finds less support for democracy
A specter is haunting Eastern Europe: the ghost of Communism past.
Commentary: Why Obama should be upbeat -- and worried
With all due respect, President Obama and Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, to put it bluntly, should shut up.
Photographer: Inauguration like no moment I've ever witnessed
On Sunday morning, I boarded a bus in Brooklyn with a group of approximately 40 citizens from New York, all African-American, each of whom would not have missed for almost anything the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
Nip/tuck in Budapest
Randy Simor's entrepreneurial savvy was severely tested when police and anti-government protesters in Budapest skirmished during celebrations commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian uprising against the Soviet Union. As the CEO of Meditours Hungary, a Budapest-based business offering Americans and Europeans access to Hungarian medical care, he had five clients in the city that day.
Eastern Europe: What's now
Forget lists of "What's Next" in travel. Eastern Europe is "What's Now." While it's catching up to the West -- becoming more modern, expensive and crowded -- Eastern Europe remains a great value. Here's what to expect this year.
It's time to live up to family values
As technology companies search from India to Eastern Europe for talent, and employers of day laborers decry attempts to cut off the supply from Latin America, CEOs seem to have overlooked one way of at least partly remedying the worker-shortage problem: Make their companies more family-friendly.
Small-town Czech bars humble but fun
A strip of honey-colored flypaper spirals down from a thumbtack that anchors its now-empty canister. Speckled with lifeless flies, the canister swings each time the violin bow pokes it.
Buying property overseas
Ever dream about buying a little place in the rolling hills of Ireland? Perhaps you're drawn to living in Tuscany or wandering the snaggleways of London.
Geeks and mobsters
A crook has two advantages: The rise of fast credit and the easy availability of the information he needs to pretend to be you.
U.N.: Millions of children in poverty
A new UNICEF report finds that millions of children in Eastern Europe and Central Asia still live in poverty, despite economic progress being made in the region.
Eastern Europe set for travel surge
With 10 more countries about to swell the ranks of the EU come May 1, the one business sector likely to get a boost is the travel industry -- both for leisure and business.
Three held over casino 'scam'
It could have been a scene straight out of "Casino Royale."
Leading Indicators WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS MONTH, AND WHAT IT MEANS.
BROADBAND Electrifying the Net
Ready To Run What's it like to head a company that's poised to be a Wall Street darling? We look at five small
MICHAEL BAKER ArthroCare
As the Third World Turns If you think U.S. stocks got unfairly hit after Sept. 11, take a look at emerging markets.
When it comes to emerging markets, there's almost no end to the bad news. After a disastrous 2000, when they shed 30% of their value, stock markets in Latin America, Africa and Asia continued to tu...
Is The Recent Web Scam Reason To Fear?
We've long agreed with the prevailing wisdom that the threat of Internet credit-card fraud is minimal. Then came the January case in which an unidentified computer hacker, thought to be based in Ea...
Forget Scotch: It's Absinthe Time!
What's bright green, tastes funny, may cause weird sensations and seizures if you're daring enough to drink it, and is suddenly showing up in all the really cool places these days? If you answered ...
Rebounding Emerging Markets Bond Funds Offer Lofty Yields--If You Can Handle The Risks
Not too long ago, only investors with an Evel Knievel-like tolerance for risk would have considered emerging markets bonds. After all, as last fall's Asian economic crisis reverberated through deve...
A NEW MANAGER, BUT CAN HE DO RUSSIA? INTERNATIONAL FUND UPDATE: EASTERN EUROPE
Owning one of the hottest--and thus, perhaps, one of the riskiest--mutual funds specializing in Eastern Europe may have just gotten a little riskier. The reason: The manager who got things off to a...
EMERGING MARKETS STILL RULE.
Income investors who want equity-like returns can take a chance on sizzling emerging markets bond funds, which invest in debt issues in Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Far East. For the 16th ...
ALL'S WILD ON THE EASTERN FRONT
Ever since the Berlin Wall came down, people have been talking about the possibility of making big money in Eastern Europe. Now at least some investors are. A little-known mutual fund, Vontobel Eas...
FUNDS RUSH TO CASH IN ON EASTERN EUROPE'S BOOM
Lured by spectacular gains in markets such as Russia (up 105% in the first eight months of this year), Hungary (86%), Poland (77%) and the Czech Republic (26%), several new mutual funds have sprung...
YOUNG AMERICANS GO ABROAD TO STRIKE IT RICH From Budapest to Beijing, record numbers of ambitious entrepreneurs and pioneering p
DANIEL ARBESS was a baby-faced associate at the venerable New York law firm White & Case when he first traveled to Prague on vacation. It was December 1989, and the Czech capital was just emerging ...
YES, YOU CAN WIN IN EASTERN EUROPE It's not just a market for Western goods, says Percy Barnevik, CEO of Swiss-based ABB, but al
WESTERN INVESTORS have poured some $15 billion into Eastern Europe in the five years since the Berlin Wall came down, but not everyone is happy. General Electric had to put an additional $400 milli...
A FIRST-CLASS PAYOFF FROM THIRD WORLD DEBT
Wall Street old-timers used to chuckle about ''Peruvian bonds'': broker slang for worthless securities. Nowadays owners of the Andean country's debt are the ones who are smiling. Loans that sold fo...
WORLDWIDE OPPORTUNITIES THE NEW GLOBAL CONSUMER IN CHARTS
While most of the industrialized world rouses from recent economic slumber, many developing nations are long awake and working overtime.
WORLD WIDE OPPORTUNITIES WHERE THE GLOBAL ACTION IS It may not be in the places you expect -- or the places you
GLOBALIZATION. Aren't we sick of it? Haven't we heard enough already about consumers from Alabama to Zambia wearing Levi's and Nikes and sweaters from Benetton, drinking Coke and Pepsi, eating Big ...
TOP TEN REASONS LEAVING HARVARD LAMPOON TO LOOK FOR WORK SUCKS
(10) Painful farewells to complimentary Harvard manservant. (9) Nude break-dancing duels discouraged at most Wall Street firms. (8) Diplomas now made of paper, not animal skin parchment, which I co...
COMING SOON: A NEW BREED OF MUTUAL FUND
Interested in putting a few thousand dollars into hot growth companies in Eastern Europe? Or in one of those richly rewarding private placements of stock that Saudi Arabian princes seem so fond of?...
EASTERN EUROPE IS ONE HOT MARKET
-- From the Baltic to the Black Sea, Eastern Europeans are loading up on merchandise bearing U.S. brand names like Kodak, Kellogg's, Band-Aids, Rice-a- Roni, SlimFast, and Purina Cat Chow. Warsaw s...
EUROPE LOOKS AHEAD TO HARD CHOICES Unity or nationalism. Competitiveness or protectionism. The lines cou
THIS WAS supposed to be Europe's year, the magical, long-awaited 1992 that would release all the competitive power locked up by nationalism, tribalism, and protectionism. Instead, Europe got divisi...
PLOTTING YOUR PATH TO PROSPERITY The world's financial markets are in flux. But change brings new opport
AT TIMES our aspirations seem no more than wishful dreams. With a sluggish global economy, a tight job market, slumping housing values, and rising costs for such essentials as health care and tuiti...
KOREA'S TIGERS KEEP ROARING The government doesn't love them anymore, and wages have exploded. But Korean conglomerates are figh
SOUTH KOREA'S long quest to be the next Japan seems right on schedule. The country's giant conglomerates are moving into every market on earth. Goldstar has bought a 5% stake in Zenith Electronics ...
GET AN AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN PORTFOLIO ON THE CHEAP
Of all the emerging Eastern bloc nations, none has a brighter future than Hungary. This peppery land of goulash and bauxite has taken to economic freedom with a vengeance. Within the last year or s...
NEW LIGHT IN EASTERN EUROPE? Amid the economic chaos that followed the crash of Communism come signs of emerging entrepreneurshi
A NERVOUS SOBRIETY has set in across Eastern Europe. Two years after the Iron Curtain came crashing down, the region's experiments with capitalism might, to some eyes, seem an excellent advertiseme...
WHO'S WHO IN THE EAST In Eastern Europe, the people to know are both colorful and energetic. ! Want to meet the Clark Gable of f
Business is always personal, but especially so in Eastern Europe, where daunting bureaucracy and changing ground rules can spook even veteran investors from abroad. In such a climate, knowing the r...
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COMPETITION/COVER STORY 48 DRUGMAKERS UNDER ATTACK Marketing muscle, patents, and a unique relationship with customers have made them America's most profitable industry. That will change as insurer...
HONG KONG ON THE BALTIC?
Allied bombing in World War II couldn't destroy Konigsberg when it was part of Germany, and neither could 46 years of urban planning by the Soviets, who got hold of the city in 1945 and renamed it ...
THE SEARCH FOR CAPITAL
The triumph of capitalism does not come cheap. As country after country struggles to build its market economy, the world will need more money than it did in the Eighties. Latin America, Eastern Eur...
INVESTMENT ADVICE FROM THE POPE
Westerners eyeing business opportunities in Eastern Europe will find encouragement in Pope John Paul II's new 114-page encyclical. The Pope, once thought to have a slightly leftish political tilt, ...
A COMING SURGE IN CAPITAL SPENDING Manufacturers won big productivity gains in the Eighties by working smarter. Now they're goin
IF YOU THINK America is suffering an inexorable industrial decline, the 1990s will surprise you. Capital investment -- a key indicator of vitality -- will rebound robustly in the manufacturing and ...
ON THE RISE
PATRICIA A. ZLOTIN, 44 MASSACHUSETTS FINANCIAL SERVICES CO. Five years ago Zlotin helped launch this Boston mutual fund company in the business of managing government securities. Today she runs fiv...
HOW LATIN AMERICA IS OPENING UP Opportunities abound for U.S. business as governments cut tariffs, welcome foreign companies, an
IF YOU DOUBT that there's a new climate for foreign businesses in Latin America, consider this tale. Michael Jordan, chairman of PepsiCo's international snack and beverage businesses, called on Mex...
THE MOST FASCINATING IDEAS FOR 1991
If a new world is indeed to be born in the aftermath of the Cold War, the midwives will be business leaders. So, at least, argues Paul Saffo of the Institute for the Future, a research outfit in Me...
A WINNING STRATEGY FOR THE 1990S The new decade won't be as kind as the 1980s, but by adapting to new trends, you
WHAT INVESTOR isn't nostalgic for the Eighties? It seemed all you had to do was plunk down your money and watch it grow like a line at a Madonna concert. Investors in stocks enjoyed the second-best...
CONSERVATION PAYS OFF Western Europe and Japan are in far better shape than is the U.S. to weather the latest oil sh
TWICE BURNED in the 1970s, Western Europe and Japan have spent the past decade getting ready for another oil shock. High taxes on heating oil and gasoline, among other measures, have reduced oil's ...
. . . AND VICE VERSA
Not only is the U.S. starting to invest in Eastern Europe -- Eastern Europe is starting to invest here as well. Earlier this year Planeta, a printing press manufacturer near Dresden, East Germany, ...
SEED MONEY FOR EASTERN EUROPE
If it worked for Silicon Valley, it can work for Eastern Europe -- or so the theory goes. The U.S. government is investing taxpayer dollars in venture capital funds -- the same financial vehicles t...
EUROPE'S CEOs ON A UNITED GERMANY, RED ARMY SURPLUS SALES, A HOT TIP, AND MORE
-- The British economy as a whole may not be doing too well, but British corporations took 28 of the top 50 places in a recent survey that ranked 250 European companies by profitability. (See table...
EURO-STRATEGY Communism's collapse could make the Old World the site of the most enticing -- and treacherous -- stock market pla
The Berlin Wall's fall last November raised more than hopes for finally reconciling Europe's post-Hitler halves. It upped the ante of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev's bold reforms of the Soviet blo...
SMART MOVES
-- Lock in long-term bond yields now and get ready for a capital-gains kicker later on. With, say, a 30-year Treasury paying a handsome 8.9%, you could wind up with an annualized return of nearly 1...
PORTFOLIO TALK GROWTH PLAYS IN THE BIG NEW EUROPE
The gods have smiled on G.T. Europe Growth Fund. It was launched in 1985 with John Legat in charge when he was only 22. It soon got a lift when members of the European Community agreed to abolish t...
NEW CHALLENGES TO CAPITALISM Its triumph over Communism leaves it burdened with the world's aspirations for progress. Here's how
COMMUNISM HAS IMPLODED. In country after country, it is proclaiming its own failure, desperately searching for ''reform'' and new beginnings. Yesterday's heresies are today's official promises; yes...
A WEAKER DOLLAR WILL HELP KEEP THE TRADE DEFICIT SHRINKING
Does the dollar's recent surge against the yen awaken bad memories? Put your fears to rest. It is nowhere near its 1985 peak and is likely to fall in the months ahead. The merchandise trade deficit...
TODAY'S LEADERS LOOK TO TOMORROW MANAGING PERCY BARNEVIK ^ TO COMPETE GLOBALLY, LOOK AT THE WORLD MAP
There is a tendency in the Western world to talk about only one region at a time. Ten years ago, people talked about Latin America as a great opportunity. Now everyone talks about Eastern Europe. I...
TODAY'S LEADERS LOOK TO TOMORROW MEDIA & MARKETING RUPERT MURDOCH TECHNOLOGY WILL SERVE INDIVIDUALS MORE
We've seen in the 1980s what's going to come in the 1990s. There's going to be a lot more of the same: fragmentation. We're moving into a period of greater freedom, a time for the individual. Netwo...
TODAY'S LEADERS LOOK TO TOMORROW MANAGING WALTER WRISTON THE REFRIGERATOR'S REVOLUTIONARY ROLE
Intellectual capital -- the knowledge necessary to make a product, which produces wealth -- has always existed, but in the future, the ratio of intellectual capital to materiel is going to continue...
TODAY'S LEADERS LOOK TO TOMORROW MANAGING ANTHONY J.F. O'REILLY THE THIRD WORLD: APPROACH WITH CAUTION
The growing appetites for products will come from the Third World, and its ambitions and demands will mimic in most ways everything that has gone before in Western society. Once television is there...
TODAY'S LEADERS LOOK TO TOMORROW FINANCE JOHN M. HENNESSY EUROPE NEEDS TO REORGANIZE ITSELF
The prod for restructuring Europe by 1992 was not fear of America but fear of the Japanese. Europe, like the U.S., needs to reorganize itself, to work and compete on a much broader scale than on pu...
WHAT EASTERN EUROPE OFFERS Though troubled, East Germany and Czechoslovakia have the strongest economies. There's opportunity in
AS THE TANNED, athletic-looking man with the thick mop of white hair stepped off a plane in Prague, the cheers of 10,000 Czechs rang in his ears. Was this ) a beloved former politico coming home fr...
Market Update SMALL INVESTORS GO FOR INCOME AS RATES TURN UP
The sharp jump in interest rates in January and early February sent small investors scrambling into high-yield stock funds, municipal bond funds and money funds. For the month, the MONEY Small Inve...
MONEY Magazine contents page March 1990 Volume 19 Number 3
COVER STORY: GET SUCCESS AND SECURITY 74 How to change your life and achieve financial security by Andrea Rock A growing number of Americans are discovering they can earn what they want by doing wh...
GLASNOST'S HARVEST: JEANS THAT NEED A SCREWDRIVER, AN ANGEL FOR BORIS, AND MORE
-- The red star and the Cyrillic writing on the back pockets and an accessory in the form of a free screwdriver mark a hot new seller: cotton jeans ($60 and up) from the Soviet Union. The screwdriv...
A CONSERVATIVE'S CALL TO SPEND MORE The time has come for Americans to increase investment in America, and that requires more ta
We should properly relish the failure of Communism and the corresponding triumph of capitalism, but we should try to be realistic about what we are celebrating. Our society has won because, through...
WARY HOPE ON EASTERN EUROPE America's top corporate chiefs think the outbreak of freedom will make the region a promising market
AMERICAN chief executives, like most of their compatriots, have elatedly watched the spirit of freedom steamroll through Eastern Europe, toppling hard- line Communist regimes as if they were made o...
SOUTH AMERICA: DEMOCRACY TRIUMPHS, BUT TIME IS RUNNING OUT
-- The economic chaos engulfing Argentina underscores changes sweeping through South America that in some ways are as profound as those of Eastern Europe. On the plus side, South America is moving ...
ARE WE AT THE END OF HISTORY? Yes, contends the author of a much discussed essay. The ideological wars are over, and liberal dem
''Bold and brilliant,'' trumpeted Chicago philosopher Allan Bloom when his former student Francis Fukuyama published ''The End of History?'' in the neoconservative journal The National Interest las...
INVESTING IN COMMUNISM'S COLLAPSE
Despite the astonishing events in Prague and East Berlin, most pros advise against making big bets now on Communism's collapse. Says Kurt Schiltknecht, chairman of Switzerland's Bank Leu: ''Let's w...
THE DOWNSIDE OF AN UPBEAT FUTURE
It's terrific that the 20th century is ending as it began, with democratic capitalism ascendant. Prospects for a less bloody, more prosperous world have rarely been brighter. But it's also worth re...
HOW TO MANAGE IN THE NEW ERA Seizing global opportunities requires exploring more options -- and acting faster -- than ever. Her
Are you up to the challenge? Beware. Leading the vanguard of global investors doesn't necessarily make for restful nights. When Swedish ball-bearing maker SKF plunged into Russia, its dream of prof...
THE ERA OF POSSIBILITIES
Let the flags wave and the bells ring the New Year in! For the great crowds filling Wenceslas Square in Prague (left) are celebrating more than just the end of Communist rule. They herald the dawn ...
BANKS -- AND SECOND WORLD DEBT
U.S. banks see opportunities in Eastern Europe -- but don't expect a replay of their disastrous lending spree in the Third World. Says George Salem, a senior banking analyst at Prudential-Bache: ''...
AH, NEXT SPRING IN BUDAPEST
Now that the Cold War is over, the hot season for travel to Eastern Europe is about to begin. Hyatt, Marriott, Sheraton, and some other chains farsightedly opened hotels in different capitals. Besi...
WHO GAINS FROM THE NEW EUROPE Almost everybody does -- and there's opportunity aplenty for deals. The combined GNP of East Germa
WITH THE FALL of the Wall and the lifting of the Curtain, Western managers and investors must rethink their strategies for doing business in Europe in the 1990s. Suddenly the Old World has gained a...
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Election Brings Poland Closer to EU
Russian Sphere of Influence Expands in Ukraine
The Kremlin ramps up efforts to restore Russia’s empire.
Hungary's Sudden Swing to the Right
What the success of the far right in Hungary means for the rest of Europe.
Russia's Influence Advances in Ukraine
Moscow is making strides in its plan to reestablish its position as a regional power in Eurasia.
Catholics and Orthodox Need to Unite to Rescue Europe, Says Pope
Russia Reins Back Former Soviet States
Russia is winning in Ukraine, and other nations are taking note.
Beginning of a New Russian Empire
Jan. 1, 2010, marks the start of a customs union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. This supranational alliance is an important step toward the creation of an even bigger and stronger Eastern alliance.
Russia Seeks to Win the War for Ukraine
Will Russia regain control of Ukraine?
Wary View of Democracy in Eastern Bloc
A poll shows Ukrainians becoming more pro-Russian.
Czech Republic: Last EU Nation Standing
The Czech president, who refuses to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, will not be able to stop the EU machine from rolling forward.
World Leaders Believed German Reunification Would Lead to World War III
Documents released leading up to the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall contain a powerful warning for us today.
The Biggest Heist of All Time
Germany is conquering Europe without firing a shot.
Russia Woos Ukraine's People
The Kremlin’s gentle takeover
Russia Reaffirms Commitment to Deploy Missiles
Russia isn’t backing away from its opposition to the U.S.-planned missile shield in Eastern Europe.
Putin Confirms: Ukraine Is Russia's
Two More EU Governments Collapse
The financial crisis causes chaos and confusion in Europe
Latvia's Government Collapses
Another one bites the dust.
Eastern Europe on the Brink
Will the collapse of Eastern European economies be an opportunity for Germany?
Russia Shuts Off the Gas Again
Moscow reaches for its gas weapon once more.
Russia's Welcome to Obama
As Obama becomes the U.S. president-elect, Russia clearly signals it does not fear the next administration.
Russia Checks Europe's Expansion
The EU-Ukraine summit shows that Europe is not yet ready to confront Russia’s westward expansion.
Russian Navy Coming to Caribbean for War Games With Venezuela
Nuclear Proliferation Has Passed the Point of No Return
Non-proliferation efforts are dwarfed by the sheer magnitude of the task at hand.
Russia's Attack Signals Dangerous New Era
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Eastern Europe's private armies
Eastern Europe's private armies
Poland Leads Central, Eastern Europe Climb
Poland Leads Central, Eastern Europe Climb
5th Annual Clinical Outsourcing Partnerships In Central & Eastern Europe, 27-28 September 2010, Brussels, Belgium
5th Annual Clinical Outsourcing Partnerships In Central & Eastern Europe, 27-28 September 2010, Brussels, Belgium
Research and Markets: Central and Eastern Europe Logistics 2010 - a Complex and Dynamic Market
Research and Markets: Central and Eastern Europe Logistics 2010 - a Complex and Dynamic Market
Gypsies Expelled from France to Eastern Europe
Gypsies Expelled from France to Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe's Export-Led Recovery Is Fueled by Germany's Record Growth
Eastern Europe's Export-Led Recovery Is Fueled by Germany's Record Growth
Research and Markets: Power Market in Eastern Europe to 2020: New Investments to Drive Power Demand in the Region
Research and Markets: Power Market in Eastern Europe to 2020: New Investments to Drive Power Demand in the Region
Research and Markets: The Future of the South Eastern Europe Natural Gas Market - Important New Transit Route for ...
Research and Markets: The Future of the South Eastern Europe Natural Gas Market - Important New Transit Route for ...
Reportlinker Adds Power Market in Eastern Europe to 2020: New Investments to Drive Power Demand in the Region
Reportlinker Adds Power Market in Eastern Europe to 2020: New Investments to Drive Power Demand in the Region
Lethal Eastern Europe floods in Berlin threat fear
Lethal Eastern Europe floods in Berlin threat fear
Research and Markets: 3Q.2010 Eastern Europe Mobile Payment Market Forecast, 2010 - 2014 - Now Available
Research and Markets: 3Q.2010 Eastern Europe Mobile Payment Market Forecast, 2010 - 2014 - Now Available
Against the Flow β Wading through eastern Europe, by Tom Fort, published by Century
Against the Flow β Wading through eastern Europe, by Tom Fort, published by Century
Gorbachev, world celebrities to meet on future of Eastern Europe
Gorbachev, world celebrities to meet on future of Eastern Europe
Floods kill seven in Eastern Europe
Floods kill seven in Eastern Europe
Floods kill at least 6 in Eastern Europe
Floods kill at least 6 in Eastern Europe
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2010 FIFA World Cup
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