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Yesterday through the Guardian numerous questions were addressed to the founders of Wikileaks Julian Assange. One of the readers asked what would happen to his initiative if he is taken out from the “game” (physically or technically). Is there a second group of activists, who’d be able to continue what’s been started or by his …

The grandmother of the US president Barrack Obama says she has prayed for her grandchild to adopt Islam. This information was published by the Agence France-Presse. Meanwhile Obama’s 88-years old grandmother Sara Omar did not comment on the policy implemented by her grandchild. Sara Obama went on religious mission with her son Sayid Hussein and …

A partial vote count has given the "Twitter Revolution" a fighting chance as reformist parties in Moldova secured a narrow lead over the strong Communist opposition in early elections yesterday, although there are concerns that a snap election might fail to resolve the political stalemate over the election of a new president. Twitter Revolution Parties …

Every time that I write about the tension of the Georgian-Russian relations I suppose that there can be no more deterioration that this. And ever time it turns out that I am wrong. Today the war factor is behind and the diplomatic relations are annulled. So their communication is taking place with the help of …

An unknown low-level bureaucrat, Yuri Luzhkov, became one of the most influential politicians in modern-day Russia . In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union he quickly rose through the ranks of Moscow City Hall and in 1992 landed the post of Moscow’s mayor, being endorsed by then-president Boris Yeltsin, and was re-elected …

“The issue of resignation of the mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov may be solved by the end of this week,” this information was provided by a source of Vedomost paper close to the presidential administration of the Russian President. In his word, the campaign against Luzhkov has started at the time when in Kremlin they …

Moldova’s ruling Alliance for European Integration (AEI) was left stunned as low voter turnout failed the long-awaited constitutional referendum, making a snap parliamentary election inevitable. Unexpected Failure Moldova’s ruling collation, the Alliance for European Integration (AEI) was stunned by the failure of the 5 September constitutional referendum. The Central Elections Committee (CEC) chairman Yuri Chokan …

Less than a year after signing a multi-billion-dollar energy and trade agreement with China , Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin has inaugurated the Russian branch of a pipeline to supply oil to China . On 29 August Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin launched opened an 84-km section of a crude oil pipeline spur running from …

The former US President Bill Clinton has a worry that with his weak health he cannot live till spring. The former head of the White House is continually losing weight and has evidently grown older. The Russian Vzglyad newspaper informs about this. “Bill is trying to maintain his optimism and is hopeful that he will …

Famous singer Jenifer Lopez has cancelled her planned concert tour to the self-declared independent state of North Cyprus. “Lopez will never support the country or administration which roughly violates the human rights. After certain analysis concerning Cyprus Lopez consulted with her assistants and decided to cancel the concert,” writes the announcement of the singer as …