It is seven years since, at 6am on 26 October 2002, Russian security forces deployed an incapacitating chemical weapon in an attempt to free over 800 people who had been held hostage by armed Chechen fighters for fifty-seven hours in a Moscow... The decision to restage Afghanistan's presidential election on 7 November 2009, following serious doubts over the integrity of the result on 20 August, takes place amid intense consultation over the international community's military and... On 19 October everyone in St.Petersburg who is even remotely interested in politics was talking about one thing only- the TV programme Vremya and its coverage of the Okhta Centre issue. Vremya is both Russia's main information programme and... Two consecutive suicide bombs killed 155 people and wounded more than 500 in Baghdad on Sunday, the BBC reported. The attacks, which occurred in quick succession near the city's heavily-fortified Green Zone, were the deadliest since April...A war on body and mind, Michael Crowley
Afghanistan: peacekeeping without peace , Pierre Schori Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh
St. Petersburg’s ‘gas-scraper’ saga: culture turns political , Dmitri Travin
Baghdad bombs kill 155 , Carly Nyst
Monday, 26 October 2009
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