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Bidzina Ivanishvili has emerged from the shadows in Georgian shadows. Two new and very different palaces overlook the valley that runs through Tbilisi, Georgia's capital. One...

Call by Armenia's prime minister follows reports of an Azeri incursion. Armenia's prime minister, Tigran Sargsyan, has called for the EU to issue a three-point resolution to...

Lithuania's foreign minister enjoys a scrap. One would think that, for a small country integrated into the heavyweight machinery of alliances such as the EU and NATO, foreign...

The EU will be sending out dangerous signals if it fails to take action following December's rigged election. The post-election crackdown in Belarus is a bleeding wound in...

Clumsy Russian tactics are boosting NATO in eastern Europe, and making the Kremlin look weak. In the 1990s, when enlarging NATO to take in the ex-communist countries still...

It says much that, in Russia, equating Stalin with Hitler might be deemed a criminal act. It is depressing that it even needed to be discussed. On Sunday in Vilnius, the...

The big countries of Europe should think twice before criticising the accountability of states farther east. Rich and powerful people in Russia and Ukraine clearly find the...

Radek Sikorski for NATO chief. So what will 2009 bring the ex-communist countries? Desirable presents are easy to think of. A respite from the economic downturn. A less...

Technical meetings will be followed by start of full talks on 2 December. Russia and the European Union will resume talks on a strategic partnership agreement on 2 December...

Concerns about the Georgia crisis and missile systems dispute could be aired in a large-scale summit in mid-2009. Russia and the EU have agreed that there should be a...

Dutch government plans to raise investigation's findings at the OSCE. An investigation ordered by the Dutch foreign ministry has found that a Dutch cameraman who died...

Ten-day countdown to withdrawal of Russian troops began on 1 October. EU monitors started a ten-day countdown in Georgia yesterday (1 October), to see whether Russian forces...

EU leaders will meet in Brussels next Monday (1 September) to discuss their response to Russia's failure to comply fully with the ceasefire mediated by French President...

EU foreign ministers meet in Brussels but fail to decide on monitors, further steps with Russia An emergency meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels today (13 August)...

Just minutes before French President Nicolas Sarkozy was to touch ground in Moscow this morning (12 August), Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev announced a halt to military...

Two states wedged between Europe and Iran are locked in an arms race and preparing for war. The international community, particularly the EU, might be able to slow down...

Russia longs to join the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a club of mainly old rich countries that is anxiously trying to expand and...

Nobody's perfect. That is the short answer to the contested question of why some western observers were monitoring Russia's parliamentary elections on Sunday (2 December) and...

The stereotypical Russian diplomat is an older fellow with a brooding mind and a booming voice which he often uses to say “nyet”, and is perhaps not the most socially...

Calling it a whitewash would be unfair. At least white looks clean and crisp. What the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has produced on Russia's...