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russia Today we start our collaboration with fergana.ru, the best source of information on Central Asia, with the findings of an indepth survey on Uzbek migration. Some 30% of Uzbeks are forced to become migrant workers, at home or abroad. What will happen when they start being laid off? Disaster looms.
Uzbekistan's leader makes Moscow wary. Plus: Maria Yanofskaya on a land of emigrants
Obama's policy towards Russia should be rooted in an understanding of the relationship between Russia's energy strength and the war with Georgia, argues Ryan Koslosky. The key to a successful US-Russia policy today is renewed transatlantic relationships.
A neglected dispute seems to resemble the Caucasus-Balkans - but close-up looks different
The row over changes to the BBC World Service's
Russian service has culminated in the resignation of the director of the World Service Nigel Chapman
In defiance of the Medvedev-Sarkozy plan, Russian troops are not allowing international observers into the mountainous region of Akhalgori/ Leningori, east of Tskhinvali. But Varvara Pakhomenko of the human rights organisation Demos managed to reach this place which, though 80% Georgian, technically belongs in South Ossetia.
The ripples of the vicious south Caucasus war continue. Plus: Fred Halliday on Armenia's trials
The currents of solidarity and fissure in the Caucasus mosaic elude Russia's control
A post-war buffer-zone remains tense, a Russian rights activist reports
We feature two more contributions to this debate, which has provoked considerable interest from readers. Input from Russia would be particularly welcome - we are happy to translate comments submitted in Russian.
A journey through the fire, waste and longing of a region in search of life
Planned changes to the BBC World Service's Russian programming spark debate
After the market embrace and the state's resurgence, what next?
A subtle map - responding to Roderic Lyne - of the ideas behind Moscow's real foreign-policy outlook
Surgut's image in Russia as an oil-rich paradise can't survive a visit there
Average Russian simply thinks that his country must pursue a hard line in the fight for its place in the sun. In this penetrating overview Dmitri Travin examines the current growth of anti-Americanism and how the situation might develop in the future.
The aftershocks of war with Russia are stirring Tbilisi's opposition into life
For generation under communist rule religion was largely discouraged and heavily persecuted. But nearly twenty years after the collapse of the USSR worshippers and pilgrims are once again flocking to the country's revered shrines. Stella Rock joined Russian pilgrims in their spiritual attempt to unify and cleanse post-Soviet Russia.
Russia's soul is alive thanks to old women, says Marina Biryukov Plus: Stella Rock on Russian pilgrimage
What does Russia want; how should Nato and the EU respond? An ex-ambassador to Moscow looks ahead Plus: time to get real, says Charles Grant
Ukrainian politics is a mess. Russian e-zine www.polit.ru's editor-in-chief Andrei Levkin attempts to throw light at the political maneuvering before the forthcoming snap parliamentary elections.
Only four years ago Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Timoshenko were close political allies. Their Orange Revolution impressed the whole world. Their bitter rivalry now led to snap parliamentary elections scheduled for 7 December.
A larger Europe-Russia crisis lights the fuse of Kyiv's bitter political rivalries (archive)
The whole world is in the grip of an economic crisis. Most countries have been through similar extremely difficult periods at some point in their history, but Russia has only encountered concepts such as the mortgage and violent stock market fluctuations in the last 17 years. Natalya Spitsyna gives a detailed overview of the way the Moscow property market has been affected.
Alexander Lukashenka has won a total victory. But is that what Belarus's president wanted?
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