SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine A year after its war with Georgia, Russia is engaging in an increasingly hostile standoff with another pro-Western neighbor, Ukrai...
The Independent | Mary Dejevsky in Kiev | Posted 04.03.2009 | World
When the United States sneezed, Old Europe's banks caught a heavy cold, and New Europe's mini-tiger economies have succumbed, one by one, to a nasty b...
GlobalPost.com | Miriam Elder | Posted 02.14.2009 | World
MOSCOW -- It maintains a private army, employs a half million people and runs entire cities around Russia. Now, the power of Gazprom has struck Euro...
nytimes.com | CLIFFORD J. LEVY | Posted 09.28.2009 | World