Full Coverage: Eastern Europe

01.05.2008 About half of the people who moved to Britain from the countries that joined the European Union on 1 May 2004 have already left the UK, according to a new report.
From Institute for Public Policy Research

28.04.2008 "After eight years of Putin, the country has a rubber-stamp parliament dominated by a single party, whose only stated policy is loyalty to the Kremlin," writes Fred Weir in Moscow.

27.04.2008 Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead is a son’s documentary about his dad. But what a dad!

18.04.2008 The UN needs to address women's reproductive rights as it conducts the first "peer reviews" of member countries' human rights records, says a coalition of 11 rights groups from around the world.
From: Center for Reproductive Rights

11.04.2008 For 50 years dangerous concentrations of radionuclides have been accumulating in earth, air and water from weapons testing and reactor incidents. Yet serious studies of the effects of radiation on health have been obscured – not least by the World Health Organisation, writes Alison Katz.

06.03.2008 Although he owes his advancement to Vladimir Putin, Dmitri Medvedev may prove a surprisingly liberal president of Russia, says Andreas Umland.
From Prospect

29.02.2008 Energy is the key to Europe's new relationship with Russia - and supposedly Moscow's weapon of choice in its plan for European domination. Yet this new Cold War is not inevitable, says Misha Glenny.
From: New Statesman

21.02.2008 Key members of a smuggling ring trading tiger skins and bear parts into China will face trial in March after a six-month operation in the Russian far east.

01.02.2008 Russia's application for a caviar export quota makes nonsense of a commercial caviar harvesting ban intended to help the recovery of the decimated sturgeon populations of the Caspian Sea basin, WWF Russia has claimed.

28.01.2008 Ten journalists and two human rights defenders were arrested this Saturday during a violent protest against government repression and corruption in Ingushetia, an autonomous Russian republic bordering Chechnya.
From: Human Rights Watch

08.01.2008 Global retail giant Wal-Mart is selling products made from illegally logged timber – in turn threatening the habitat of the highly endangered Siberian tiger, according to new evidence from an environmental activism group.

04.01.2008 One of many projects launched as part of the 2008 International Year of Sanitation is a wastewater treatment project that reduces the amount of raw sewage flowing into the Russian Volga River basin.

03.01.2008 David Young outlines the diplomatic wranglings the U.S. and E.U. will have to engage in during the next three months before they "give Kosovo the green light to unilaterally declare its independence."

06.12.2007 In past years, the HIV epidemic has ravaged the populations of many former Soviet nations, the majority of victims claimed by needle sharing and drug use. Thanks to new programs such as needle exchange and harm reduction, these countries are taking big steps in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

27.11.2007 Domestic violence in the Russian Federation; sex slavery in India; self-immolation in Central Asian republics; gender-based violence and HIV; and 'compensation' marriages are the five underreported stories used by the UN Population Fund to launch a campaign against gender-based violence.
From: UNFPA

25.11.2007 A year on, Ivar Amundsen remembers his friend Alexander Litvinenko and reflects on the ruthlessness of Putin's Russia.
From The New Statesman

22.11.2007 Invasion - a comparison of Soviet and Western media performance, by Nikolai Lanine and Media Lens.

20.11.2007 Major world powers, including Russia and the United States, are circumventing international bans on chemical weapons development under the pretense of expanding law enforcement capabilities, charge arms control experts.

16.11.2007 In eastern Slovakia, some of the poorest and most marginalized people in Europe are often denied their right to education and are subject to discrimination and segregation in schools, says Amnesty International.

16.11.2007 It will take at least 5 to 10 years for the marine environment to recover from the oil spill that wreaked havoc in the Kerch Strait leading to the Black Sea last week, says a leading environmental group.