Full Coverage: Eastern Europe

26.07.2007 Primaeval beech forests in the Carpathian Mountains have been inscribed on the UN's World Heritage List, underlining the global importance of this rare forest habitat — the most extensive in Europe.

13.07.2007 "The Olympics in the Caucasus, which has long been seen as unstable, will promote peace and understanding," said the president of Georgia, whose breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are mere kilometers from the site of the 2014 Winter Games. Analysts are not all so optimistic.