Full Coverage: Russia
Russia blocks Georgia's main port city
AP - Thu Aug 21, 7:07 AM ETPOTI, Georgia - Russian forces blocked the only land entrance to Georgia's main port city on Thursday, a day before Russia promised to complete a troop pullout from its ex-Soviet neighbor.
Off the Wires
- NATO: Russia halts military cooperation AP - 4 minutes ago
- Oil jumps $6 on US-Russia tensions, sliding dollar AP - 40 minutes ago
- Russian court delays Khodorkovsky parole decision AP - 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
- Oil rises towards $120 on Russia-U.S. tension Reuters - 1 hour, 32 minutes ago
- Russian tanks pull back from Georgia Reuters - 2 hours, 10 minutes ago
News Stories
- Russia hits back at Nato warning at BBC - Tue, Aug 19, 2008
- NATO Ministers Warn Russia, No 'Business as Usual' at The New York Times - Tue, Aug 19, 2008
- Russian president slams Georgia's 'morons' at CNN.com - Mon, Aug 18, 2008
- Despite Pledges, Russia Shows No Signs of Pullout From Georgia at The New York Times - Mon, Aug 18, 2008
- U.S. missile shield in Europe targets Russia - Medvedev at RIA Novosti - Fri, Aug 15, 2008
Feature Articles
- Ossetian crisis: Who started it? at BBC - Tue, Aug 19, 2008
- Nato's diplomatic balancing act at BBC - Tue, Aug 19, 2008
- Georgia Crisis Stirs Concern In Ukraine at NPR - Mon, Aug 18, 2008
- The Georgia Crisis: A Blow to NATO Time.com via Yahoo! News - Fri, Aug 15, 2008
- Russia's War With Georgia May Revive U.S.-Europe Rift Bloomberg via Yahoo! News - Fri, Aug 15, 2008
- Georgian War Exposes Rift With Russians in Baltics at Deutsche Welle - Fri, Aug 15, 2008
Opinion & Editorials
- How to Confront Russia RealClearPolitics via Yahoo! News - Tue, Aug 19, 2008
- Who Started Cold War II? Tue, Aug 19, 2008
- How the West Fueled Putin's Sense of Impunity at The Wall Street Journal - Fri, Aug 15, 2008
- Russia's Ominous New Doctrine? at The Washington Post - Fri, Aug 15, 2008
- We are still fighting the Cold War at The Independent (UK) - Thu, Aug 14, 2008
- Vladimir Putin's mastery checkmates the West at The London Times - Thu, Aug 14, 2008
Related Web Sites
- Embassy of the Russian Federation in Washington D.C.
- includes foreign policy news and a profile of the country and its leaders.
- Rich in Russia: How to Make a Billion Dollars
- examines the new Russian business class, from entrepreneurs remaking Moscow to the billionaire tycoons, or "oligarchs" that the Kremlin regards as rivals for power. From PBS' Frontline/World.
- U.S. Library of Congress Country Study - Russia
- Includes facts-at-a-glance and sections on ethnicity, religion, culture, early to modern history, geography, government, and the economy.
- Dollar-to-Ruble Currency Rate
- from Yahoo! Finance.
- Amnesty International: Russian Federation
- updates and in-depth reports on the human rights situation in the country.
- Human Rights Watch: Russia and Chechnya
- bulletins and reports on human rights developments in the country.