A drive to reduce the birth rate in Uzbekistan has both doctors and women resorting to faking paperwork in order to create the appearance of compliance with the government's wishes.
European Union observers responsible for mediating disputes among Georgians, Russians and South Ossetians say they have unresolved questions about the circumstances surrounding the detention of a South Ossetian man by Georgian police.
"Following careful consideration of all the available information, the European Union Monitoring Mission [EUMM] has serious doubts that Mr.
The leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia support the "basic principles" of a proposed plan to resolve the two countries' long struggle over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced on January 26.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will continue to pressure Baku to honor its democratization commitments, according to the outgoing president of the group, Luis Maria de Puig.
"We will continue working to secure the release of people who were arrested on political motives and other reasons that we believe are groundless," de Puig was quoted as saying by the Kavkazsky
