Eastern Europe
Ukraine: US-Russia conflict provokes government collapse
Cheney’s visit
By Niall Green, September 10, 2008
The coalition government of Ukraine, made up of the party of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and the smaller Our Ukraine party of President Viktor Yushchenko, collapsed in bitter acrimony on Wednesday...
Former Yugoslav war crimes tribunal spokeswoman indicted for contempt
By Paul Mitchell, September 5, 2008
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has indicted Florence Hartmann, the spokeswoman of the tribunal’s former Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte from 1999 to 2006, ...
Cheney in Georgia: Gunboat diplomacy in pursuit of oil
By Tom Eley, September 5, 2008
The US is continuing to ratchet up tensions with Russia in the aftermath of last month’s war in the Caucasus.
