Macedonia could start its EU accession talks within the period of the Spanish EU presidency says Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos.

• April 22, 2010

MOSCOW -- Ukraine's new president signed a deal Wednesday that allows Russia's Black Sea Fleet to stay in the country another 25 years, moving to ease a long-standing and giving Moscow its second foreign policy victory in the former Soviet Union this

• April 22, 2010

Uzbek President Islam Karimov on April 20 urged the Russian media not to judge all of Central Asia on the basis of the situation in Kyrgyzstan and asked reporters to be balanced in their coverage of the Kyrgyz unrest, RIA Novosti informed.

• April 21, 2010

Anyone who remembers the Vietnam War might be having hot flashes of déjà vu today. We are again engaged in a grand campaign to "win the hearts and minds" of an implacable foe in a place where we do not understand the language, the religion, the culture, or the opportunity costs

• April 20, 2010

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich was to meet Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday for talks which Kiev hopes will lead to Russia cutting the price of natural gas supplies.

• April 20, 2010

Russia emerged from a decade of post-Soviet economic and political turmoil to reassert itself as a world power.

• April 20, 2010

Winter Olympics, to be staged in the mountain range where the militants have their strongholds. Soon after the Black Sea resort town of Sochi won in its bid to host the games, insurgents vowed in a statement to "attack any of the so-called 'Olympic

• April 20, 2010

Turkish Cypriots elected a hardliner for president on Sunday, in a result that could have a major impact on efforts towards reuniting the island and on Turkey's bid to join the European Union.

• April 19, 2010