Claire Bigg covers Russia, Ukraine, and the post-Soviet world, with a focus on human rights, civil society, and social issues.
MOSCOW, September 27, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Russia's Central Election Commission today dismissed an appeal to conduct a referendum on lifting the current two-term limit for Russian presidents.
The remains of Maria Fyodorovna, the Danish princess who became empress of Russia in 1866, have been reburied in St. Petersburg.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet later today in Paris with his French counterpart, Jacques Chirac.
Russian audiences will get the chance to rediscover Dmitry Shostakovich and his music with a series of new recordings, concerts, and films.
Prosecutors believe the murder of a Central Bank official was likely motivated by his campaign to clean up the murky banking system.
A plan to bring ethnic Russians abroad back home has run into concerns in the underdeveloped regions targeted as their future homes.
President Vladimir Putin's Russia has undergone a major transformation during the five years since the September 11, 2001, attacks against the United States.
The U.S.-based NGO Freedom House has issued its annual compilation of the world's most dictatorial countries.
A school has been torched in a city in the northwestern Karelia Republic, following recent clashes between ethnic Slavs and immigrants.
Beslan residents filed silently through the school gymnasium where so many people were killed two years ago.
In September 2004, the world watched in horror as more than 330 people -- half of them schoolchildren -- died in the North Ossetian town of Beslan. Now, two years on, locals are coping one day at a time.
Nationalist youth groups have emerged as a factor in the bombing of a Moscow market this week, as well as the killing of a Peruvian student last year.
The alleged 'spy rock' discovered in Moscow in January (epa) MOSCOW, August 24, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- The Moscow City Court on August 23 sentenced a Russian man to 12 years at a high-security prison for attempting to pass military secrets to Germany.
MOSCOW, August 23, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- A delegation from Iran's nuclear energy organization is expected to tour a Russian nuclear plant today as part of the nuclear cooperation between the two countries. The timing of the visit is raising a few eyebrows.
August 22, 2006 -- Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman has won one of the world's top mathematics prizes.
As Latvia marks 15 years of independence, some still recall the deportations following World War II.
Moscow has announced a plan to attract ethnic Russians to Russia. RFE/RL traveled to Latvia to see how the idea is going over there.
PRAGUE, August 3, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- The Kremlin has yet to officially react to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko's endorsement of Viktor Yanukovych's candidacy to be prime minister.<br />
MOSCOW, July 27, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin today in Moscow for talks focusing on arms sales and energy cooperation.
Chavez's Russia visit centers on some major arms deals. But he is also eager to involve Moscow in Venezuela's ambitious energy projects.
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