WASHINGTON The United States and NATO plan to open and expand supply lines through Central Asia to deliver fuel, food and other goods to a military mission in Afghanistan that is expected to grow by ...
In China, competition for increasingly scarce jobs is growing fiercer By Stephanie Holmes BBC News Vast sums of money criss-cross the globe each day, as millions of migrant workers send a portion of ...
A group of seven teenage skinheads who carried out 19 racially-motivated murders in Moscow have been sentenced to jail terms of between six and 20 years.
MOS COW, Dec. 13 -- The e-mail that arrived Monday night in the inboxes of two organizations tracking hate crimes in Russia carried a disturbing message and an even more disturbing photo -- that of a ...
Taliban attacks on Nato supply lines have forced military planners to seek new routes for convoys into Afghanistan via Eastern Europe, it has been reported.
. Nato countries are scrambling for alternative routes as far afield as Belarus and Ukraine to supply their forces in Afghanistan , which are increasingly vulnerable to a resurgent Taliban, the ...
I knew I was in Tajikistan this week when my Lebanese roaming mobile phone welcomed me to "Russia" on arrival at Dushanbe airport. Yup folks, Alpha Beirut really believed I was in Mr Putin's empire. ...
Remember that reception you went to at Brookings a few years ago after that riveting panel on minority rights in Tajikistan? Or maybe it was East Kazakhstan? There was a guy, Todd something-or-other, ...