Full Coverage: Eastern Europe

30.11.2007 Amnesty International on huolestunut ihmisoikeusloukkauksista, joihin Venäjän viranomaiset ovat syyllistyneet parlamenttivaalien alla. Viranomaiset ovat rajoittaneet opposition kannattajien, ihmisoikeusaktivistien ja toimittajien kokoontumisvapautta ja ilmaisunvapautta.

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.

16.11.2007 Through persistent virtual activism, thousands of outraged Russian bloggers have managed to expose and attract government attention to a pharmaceutical scam that urged pensioners to buy bogus, and very costly, anti-arthritis medication.

14.11.2007 Severe weather on the Kerch Strait near the Black Sea is blamed for sinking ships transporting oil and sulfur; now that same weather is impeding rescue efforts and cleanup, which is expected to take years.

01.11.2007 Russia is removing tariffs from many African goods in a new effort to support development and improve trade relations with the continent.