Uzbekistan is erecting concrete walls 7 meters in height in Rishtan district of Ferghana region on the border with Kyrgyzstan, reported Radio Ozodlik (Uzbek service of the RFE/RL).According to a resident of the district, construction of these walls began more

Tariana Turia is pleased about the decline in cigarette smoking among year 10 students but Aotearoa still faces a smoking crisis, she says.Mrs Turia said while today's release of the ASH Year 10 Survey was a good news story, it

The National Government remains committed to Adult Community Education (ACE) and will continue to invest $124 million in these courses over the next four years, Acting Education Minister Bill English says.

Defence Minister Wayne Mapp is on his way to Brussels to discuss progress in Afghanistan with NATO and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) partners on Friday.

The Government has agreed to make a capital injection of $30 million to bolster Public Trust's capital base, Finance Minister Bill English and Justice Minister Simon Power announced today.

10 June 2009 - Communications and Information Technology Minister Steven Joyce says suggestions from Labour MP Clair Curran about the outcome of the government's review of the Telecommunications Act are nothing but scaremongering.

On Monday Russia celebrated the International Children's Day. In cities across the country people took to the streets in an attempt to attract attention to the problems that Russian children are presently faced with. The events of the day did

The world set a new military spending record in 2008 with a whopping $1.5 trillion. The Stockholm-based military think tank SIPRI released its annual report on Monday, revealing a record hike in military spending throughout the world, with significant increases

Last week, Freedom House, a U.S.-based NGO that conducts research and advocacy of democracy, political freedom and human rights, labeled Russia as an authoritarian regime, topping off nearly a decade of similar accusations from Western governments and other NGOs. But

Russia announced a blanket ban on imports of 500 Belarusian dairy products Saturday. Russia claims that the move is for purely technical reasons, and was preceded by repeated warnings to Belarus about hygiene and production standards. But the ban was

Emotions, not sober comment, continue to prevail in Ukraine regarding the expected changes to the constitution which will clip Yushchenko's wings. What should be analyzed is why the two major political parties, BYUT and PR, have been made to join

Those parties that viewed the proposed coalition merely as a power-sharing pact came out the losers. Back-room negotiators proposed a rather controversial version of the constitution. They believed they could continue to manipulate Ukraine the same way they did in

Premier Tymoshenko went on the 5th Channel TV 4 hours after Viktor Yanukovych had announced on June 7 his decision to quit the coalition talks with BYUT. She said Viktor Yanukovych had made a very "exotic" proposal to adopt the

In a statement made on the square outside Kyiv's Lavra church June 7, Viktor Yanukovych said he supports the election of the president by the direct vote pf Ukrainians. Hitherto, rumors were rife that BYUT and the Party of Regions

One of the hosts of the popular TV program "ProjectorParisHilton" Sergey Svetlakov in an exclusive interview to the Charter'97 press-centre comments censorship imposed by Belarusian authorities against jokes about Lukashenka.

The scandalous colonel, suspected of kidnapping the opposition leaders, retired from the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus.

The arrested US citizen protests against arbitrary action of Belarusian authorities and demands immediate release.

The Russian Federal Consumer Rights Protection and Human Health Control Service banned the import of 500 types of milk product from Belarus. The ban came in force since June 6. It's a serious blow to Belarusian producers depriving them of

The leader of the United Civil party Anatol Lyabedzka has been found guilty on the basis of "evidence" with which he hadn't been familiarized himself: the evidence wasn't read out in the court, as it is "secret" in nature.

The Belarusian authorities haven't apologized for a killing of pilots of an American hot air balloon.