| Serbs Go to the Polls in Presidential Runoff |
Sunday’s runoff election pitted President Boris Tadic, the pro-Western incumbent, against Tomislav Nikolic, a nationalist who wants closer ties with Russia.
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| President: Bulgaria Is Not Russian Trojan Horse in EU |
President, Rosen Plevneliev, attended Saturday an emotional meeting with the Bulgarian community in Chicago. Plevneliev, who is on his first official visit to the US as Head of State, addressed the expats ahead of the NATO summit in Chicago. The city is home of the largest Bulgarian diaspora in North America. ...
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| Peacemaking without mediators |
(MENAFN - Arab News) A Surplus of mediators have been around all the time, including the heavy weight Quartet of the UN, US, EU and Russia, as well as heaps of terms of reference of UNSC ...
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| World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Missile Spy Convicted |
A Russian defense company worker was convicted Friday of passing missile secrets to foreign intelligence operatives.
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| A Whisper of Nuclear War Spurs a Sell-Off in a Russian Stock Market |
Dmitri Medvedev, nowadays Russia’s prime minister, said he didn’t “want to scare anybody,” but the Micex stock exchange fell on both Thursday and Friday.
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| Putin Reaches Down to the Assembly Line for First Appointment |
Russia’s newest political star is a tank factory worker who is famous for one thing: offering to travel to Moscow with a gang of assembly-line workers to chase antigovernment protesters off the streets.
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| Facebook bet pays off for Russia's Usmanov |
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's richest man recognized the value of Facebook Inc three years ago when he invested in the social networking company and now stands to enjoy a payday of around $1 billion, propelling him further ahead of Russia's oligarchs, who have largely stuck with oil and steel. Alisher Usmanov, who topped Forbes magazine's annual list of Russia's richest investors in April, began his career making plastic bags and built his fortune in metals and mining. He is now worth $18.1 billion, up from $2.6 billion six years ago, according to Forbes. ...
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| Philip Seymour Hoffman to star in "A Most Wanted Man" |
NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Philip Seymour Hoffman will star in a film adaption of John Le Carre's "A Most Wanted Man." The Oscar winner and Tony nominee will play the leader of a covert Germany spy group looking into the case of Issa, a tortured part-Chechen, part-Russian with a claim to his family's fortune. While a series of people, including a banker and a female lawyer, try to help Issa, assorted intelligence agencies begin to dig into his true identity. Hoffman is currently performing on Broadway in "Death of a Salesman. ...
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| Russian whizzes win global collegiate IT contest |
 Three Russian computer whizzes were crowned the world's top collegiate programmers Thursday, when they clobbered 111 other teams from across the globe to win the 36th annual "Battle of Brains" in Warsaw.
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| Video: Hugging toddler's unrequited love goes viral |
 Every time a little boy in Russia tries to hug a little girl, she shoves him to the ground in a video that has already topped 1.2 million hits on YouTube. (TODAY)
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