Authorities in the Russian city of St. Petersburg have investigated the operations of the international Catholic charity group Caritas.

• April 4, 2013

Russia on Wednesday said it was worried by the "explosive" North Korea situation, saying even a simple human error could cause the crisis to spiral out of control.

• April 3, 2013

Israel offered Turkey to build a gas pipeline through its territory to export its gas to world markets, the Sabah newspaper reported with reference to a source in the Turkish government on Wednesday.

• April 3, 2013

Russian gas giant Gazprom is reporting a nearly 34 percent jump in natural-gas exports for March.

• April 3, 2013

ISSUE # 11
04/01/2013
On 25 March 2013, the government approved a plan to adapt Ukrainian laws to EU legislation. According to the plan, Ukraine is expected to pass a number of legal acts to liberalize visa regulations with the EU and sign the association agreement in 2013. READ MORE

• April 3, 2013

In a recently hosted international panel by Voice of Russia America to discuss the second anniversary of the conflict in Syria, Mikhail Roschin, EGF Affiiated Expert on radical Islam in the North Caucasus and Central Asia speaks about the national uprisings that put Syria on the path to civil war and so far more than 70,000 people have been killed in the violence between rebel opposition groups and the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. To listen to this discussion, please click here.

• April 3, 2013

Russian natural gas supplies to Ukraine are down more than 20 percent for the first two months of the year compared to 2012, the government said.

• April 2, 2013

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said the North Korea "crisis has gone too far" after Pyongyang announced plans to restart its main Yongbyon nuclear complex.

• April 2, 2013