'How can you not attend the funeral of one's father?'Leaving Poland: The lucky ones gripped their tickets a little more tightly and hurried past the growing scrum.Wed Apr 06 2005 - 01:00
Pressure to Kyrgyz leader returnKyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan's ousted president Askar Akayev said yesterday he was willing to return to his homeland to formally resign…Fri Apr 01 2005 - 01:00
Yukos security chief gets 20 years in jail for double murderRussia: A Russian court sentenced the one-time security chief of the Yukos oil company to 20 years in jail for murder yesterday…Thu Mar 31 2005 - 01:00
Ousted Kyrgyzstan president hints he could resignKYRGYZSTAN: Askar Akayev, who led Kyrgyzstan for 15 years before being ousted in last week's unexpected coup, insisted yesterday…Wed Mar 30 2005 - 01:00
Ashdown sacks Bosnian-Croat presidentBOSNIA: Lord Ashdown, the international community's administrator for Bosnia, sacked the Croatian member of the country's tripartite…Wed Mar 30 2005 - 01:00
Deputies side with Bakiyev as interim leader of KyrgyzstanKYRGYZSTAN: The leaders of last week's coup in Kyrgyzstan glossed over their differences yesterday, resolving a row between …Tue Mar 29 2005 - 01:00
UN urges Serbs to enter talks on Kosovo's futureSERBIA & MONTENEGRO: The United Nations' administrator for Kosovo urged Serbia's leaders yesterday to prepare for talks …Tue Mar 29 2005 - 01:00
Rival parliaments bicker amid crisis in KyrgyzstanKYRGYZSTAN: Rival parliaments bickered yesterday over who should run Kyrgyzstan after its unexpected coup, while Western envoys…Mon Mar 28 2005 - 01:00
Romania puts claim by ex-king on holdROMANIA: Romania's plan to compensate its former king for property appropriated by the communists has been put on ice after …Sat Mar 26 2005 - 00:00
Kyrgyz interim president to act on lootingKYRGYZSTAN: Kyrgyzstan's new acting president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, appointed an interim cabinet and vowed to crack down on rampant…Sat Mar 26 2005 - 00:00
Putin offers surprise truce to tycoonsRUSSIA: President Vladimir Putin has offered an unexpected truce to Russia's nervous tycoons by pledging not to investigate …Fri Mar 25 2005 - 00:00
Kyrgyz president flees country after protestsKYRGYZSTAN: President Askar Akayev has fled Kyrgyzstan after thousands of protesters, complaining about rigged elections, poverty…Fri Mar 25 2005 - 00:00
Tough warning goes out to Kyrgyz protestersKYRGYZSTAN: Kyrgyzstan's new hard-line interior minister warned anti-government protesters in the south of the Central Asian…Thu Mar 24 2005 - 00:00
Estonian parties search for new prime ministerEstonia: Estonia's political elite began preparing yesterday for emergency talks to form a new government following the shock…Wed Mar 23 2005 - 00:00
Russian anger as Warsaw junction is named after Chechen rebelRussia-Poland: Russia and Poland are at odds for the second time this month over Warsaw's alleged support for Chechen separatist…Wed Mar 23 2005 - 00:00
Croats warn of possible backlash against BrusselsCROATIA: Most Croats appeared sanguine yesterday over the postponement of talks to join the European Union, despite warnings…Thu Mar 17 2005 - 00:00
Kosovo leader flies to war crimes trialThe Hague: A day after resigning as Kosovo's prime minister, Ramush Haradinaj arrived at the UN tribunal in The Hague yesterday…Thu Mar 10 2005 - 00:00
US 'friendly fire' kills BulgarianBulgaria: A Bulgarian soldier will be buried today after being shot dead by US troops in Iraq last Friday, just hours before…Tue Mar 08 2005 - 00:00
Monitors cite flaws in Central Asian pollsCENTRAL ASIA: Sunday's general elections in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan were riddled with irregularities, Western monitors and…Tue Mar 01 2005 - 00:00
Iran-Russia deal to fuel tensions with USRUSSIA/IRAN: Russia agreed yesterday to supply fuel to an atomic power station in Iran that the United States suspects of being…Mon Feb 28 2005 - 00:00
Opposition candidates claim polls unfair in Kyrgyzstan, TajikistanKYRGYZSTAN/TAJIKISTAN: The United States and Russia closely watched general elections in two remote Central Asian states yesterday…Mon Feb 28 2005 - 00:00
Embattled Putin 'satisfied' after summit with tough-talking BushRUSSIA: President Vladimir Putin returned to Russia last night from Slovakia, declaring himself satisfied with his summit meeting…Sat Feb 26 2005 - 00:00
Bratislava - where everyone was safe for at least one dayThe border guard's diligence suggested unusual events at our destinationFri Feb 25 2005 - 00:00
Serbia rejects split from MontenegroSERBIA: Serbia bluntly dismissed Montenegro's request for separation yesterday, and insisted their fraught union continue for…Thu Feb 24 2005 - 00:00
Serbia's president on visit to KosovoKosovo: Serbia's president, Mr Boris Tadic, rejected the possibility of independence for Kosovo yesterday, on the first visit…Mon Feb 14 2005 - 00:00
Dismissed for not predicting cold snapROMANIA: Mr Ion Poiana, the head of Romania's National Meteorology Agency, was fired for failing to predict accurately a cold…Fri Feb 11 2005 - 00:00
Belgrade shows willingness to surrender war crimes fugitivesSERBIA: One of the most senior Serb generals to surrender to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague is due to appear there …Mon Feb 07 2005 - 00:00
Wallenberg's 'protective passes' saved thousands of livesHolocaust: More than 20,000 names sit alongside that of Oskar Schindler on the list of non-Jews honoured by Israel for saving…Tue Jan 25 2005 - 00:00
Rebels die in battles near ChechnyaCHECHNYA: Russian security forces were searching yesterday for the bodies of several militants believed killed in two fierce…Mon Jan 17 2005 - 00:00
Storms wreak havoc in northern EuropeEUROPE: The same storm system that has lashed Ireland and prompted a flood warning for the River Shannon yesterday killed at…Tue Jan 11 2005 - 00:00
Mesic looks set for second term as Croatia's presidentCROATIA: Mr Stipe Mesic looked set to win a second term as Croatia's president yesterday, and lead the Balkan nation towards…Mon Jan 03 2005 - 00:00
Croatia likely to re-elect Mesic in weekend pollCROATIA: Croatia chooses a president to lead it into the European Union this weekend, in elections overshadowed by the country…Fri Dec 31 2004 - 00:00
Chinese firm may get 20% of former Yukos assetA Chinese firm could take one-fifth of the state-owned Russian company that will control the former jewel in the crown of the…Fri Dec 31 2004 - 00:00
Russian hero prize deridedRussia: Human rights groups have poured scorn on President Vladimir Putin for bestowing Russia's highest award for valour on…Thu Dec 30 2004 - 00:00
Putin accuses West of backing revolutionsRUSSIA: Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West yesterday of fomenting revolution across the former Soviet Union and…Fri Dec 24 2004 - 00:00
Yukos production unit sold for half price at $9.3bnRussian President Vladimir Putin yesterday fiercely defended the state's purchase of Yukos's main production unitFri Dec 24 2004 - 00:00
Romanian president names reformist PMROMANIA: Romanian President Traian Basescu nominated his new prime minister yesterday, and hailed the start of a new, corruption…Thu Dec 23 2004 - 00:00
Bosnia facing crisis as third Serb official quitsBosnia: Bosnia edged closer to political crisis last night after the government of the ethnically divided country lost its third…Tue Dec 21 2004 - 00:00
No choice offered to Turkmenistan electorateTURKMENISTAN: A week before Ukraine is expected to vote its ex-Communist rulers out of office, Turkmenistan's parliamentary …Mon Dec 20 2004 - 00:00
Premier of Serb region in Bosnia resigns over sackingsBOSNIA: The prime minister of Bosnia's Serb-run region resigned yesterday over the sacking of nine of his security officials…Sat Dec 18 2004 - 00:00
Ashdown fires Bosnian Serb officialsBOSNIA: The international community's envoy to Bosnia, Lord Ashdown, sacked nine security officials from the country's Serb-…Fri Dec 17 2004 - 00:00
Win for a sharp and witty political noviceROMANIA: When Traian Basescu tearfully accepted his party's nomination for president, few gave the former sea captain a chance…Tue Dec 14 2004 - 00:00
Basescu pledges to rid Romania of povertyROMANIA: Mr Traian Basescu pledged yesterday to rid Romania of poverty and corruption after his shock victory over Prime Minister…Tue Dec 14 2004 - 00:00
Serbian president survives 'assassination attack'SERBIA: Serbia's President, Mr Boris Tadic, said yesterday that a car had tried to ram his motorcade, in what his party called…Thu Dec 02 2004 - 00:00
Mystery surrounds freeing of Polish hostagePOLAND: Mystery surrounds the freeing of a Polish woman by her Iraqi kidnappers after she unexpectedly reappeared in Warsaw …Mon Nov 22 2004 - 00:00
US angers Greece by recognising state's right to call itself MacedoniaThe United States infuriated Greece yesterday by recognising a neighbouring state's right to call itself Macedonia, a name which…Fri Nov 05 2004 - 00:00
Fears of Russian influence in Lithuania as new coalition formedLITHUANIA: Lithuania's outgoing government bowed to pressure yesterday from a Russian-born pickles tycoon to form a new ruling…Thu Nov 04 2004 - 00:00
US issues Nordic, Baltic security warningUS citizens warned: On the eve of the presidential election, the United States sent out a terror warning yesterday to its citizens…Tue Nov 02 2004 - 00:00
Latvia cabinet forced to resignLATVIA: Latvia's government collapsed yesterday over its plans for the Baltic state's 2005 budget, putting Europe's only Green…Fri Oct 29 2004 - 01:00
Investigator says Beslan gunmen were using unknown drugRUSSIA: The gunmen who carried out the bloody school siege in Beslan last month were drug addicts fortified by an unknown and…Thu Oct 21 2004 - 01:00
