An opposition party leader alleged that the fatal shooting of another opposition figure had ben ordered by the government, but the top government figures rejected the claim, Pravda.Ru reports.
Popularity: 2% [?]
May 22, 2007Leader of 21st Century – Language, Homeland, Faith opposition party Guram Sharadze, 66, was killed last night in central Tbilisi, Georgia, the REGNUM news agency reports.
Popularity: 2% [?]
According to Xinhua, Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the Russia’s Communist Party awarded Fidel Castro the first 90-year Commemorative Medal of the Great October Socialist Revolution On Wednesday, April 24.
Popularity: 2% [?]
April 26, 2007Ukraine’s Supreme Administrative Court has banned holding early parliamentary elections May 27 amid the ongoing political turmoil in the former Soviet country, Russian news agency RIA-Novosti reported quoting an official statement by the Ukrainian Justice Minister.
Popularity: 2% [?]
A number of hardline Communist and nationalist members of Russian parliament on Wednesday refused to pay tributes to Boris Yeltsin, the AFP news agency reported.
Popularity: 2% [?]
April 25, 2007Moscow police on Sunday arrested five civil rights activists taking part in a public stroll in the same areas where a week earlier police had attacked and arrested demonstrators, the DPA news agency reported.
Popularity: 3% [?]
April 23, 2007Police used tear gas and stun grenades Thursday to disperse thousands of opposition protesters who had demanded president’s resignation, The Associated Press reports.
Popularity: 2% [?]
April 20, 2007Two-thirds of Russians approve of proposals by Federation Council speaker Sergei Mironov to increase the term of presidential office to 5-7 years and to allow a president to serve for three consecutive terms.
Popularity: 2% [?]
April 17, 2007Riot police wielding truncheons broke up an opposition rally in a central Russian city on Saturday, detaining dozens of activists and beating some of them, The Associated Press news agency reports.
Popularity: 1% [?]
March 26, 2007Thousands of opposition protesters gathered this weekend in Minsk, Belarus, to mark the anniversary of the short-lived Belarussian republic in 1918, the UPI news agency reports.
Popularity: 2% [?]
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