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One evening in December 1991, as Georgia was sliding into civil war and its capital filled with refugees, I went to one of the last performances in the Moorish-style opera house on Tbilisi’s Rustaveli Avenue, the city’s central...
Andre de Nesnera | Washington 12 March 2009 Foreign ministers from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, have recently agreed to resume ties with Russia that were suspended in August as a result of Moscow's five-day...
The threat of warfare spreading into the digital realm is no longer just a possibility, according to a McAfee report released Tuesday. The Santa Clara computer security firm concluded that countries like Russia, China, France,...
Had Bill Shankly hailed from Cairo rather than a Scottish mining village, he might have said: "Football's not a matter of life and death – but it can cost you your eyesight." Ask the Egyptian team doctor who lost an eye after...
A new Russian doctrine – which says it can use nuclear weapons preemptively against small regional adversaries – is seen either as a sign of aggression or bluster to mask insecurity. The Kremlin is drafting a new military...
CHRIS LEFKOW November 18, 2009 - "Over the past year, the increase in politically motivated cyberattacks has raised alarm and caution, with targets including the White House, Department of Homeland Security, US Secret Service...
Major countries and nation-states are engaged in a "Cyber Cold War," amassing cyberweapons, conducting espionage, and testing networks in preparation for using the Internet to conduct war, according to a new report to be...
MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday held out the remote republic of Tuva to illustrate Russia’s need for political reform and promised to make electoral changes that would promote democracy.
Children and war - The International Committee of the Red Cross marks Universal Children's Day, November 20, by urging the global community to fully respect existing international humanitarian and human rights law which offers...
WPS Agency, Russia DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia) November 13, 2009 Friday "WAR IN GEORGIA EXPOSED SOUTH CAUCASUS COUNTRIES' VULNERABILITY" by Olga Allenova AN INTERVIEW WITH PETER SEMNEBY, EU SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE...
