When branch davidian sect members hunkered down in their Waco compound last year and threatened to commit suicide, the FBI turned to an unlikely source. Experts from the FBI Counter-Terrorism Center ...

After two decades in power, the veteran leader of the breakway region of Moldova, Igor Smirnov, appears to have lost the presidential race. The preliminary results of the December 11 presidential ...

Voters in the self-proclaimed republic of Transdniester are going to the polls today to vote in the region's presidential election. Incumbent Igor Smirnov, who has led Moldova's de facto independent ...

The December 4 State Duma elections in Russia are not the only voting that is on the Kremlin's mind these days. Moscow has taken an active interest in the recent presidential poll in the breakaway ...

“Oleg Smirnov and Oleg Brizitsky have been summoned for questioning as suspects,” Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said MOSCOW, October 28 (Itar-Tass) —— The Russian Investigation Committee has ...

On Saturday, voters will decide the president of Transnistria, the unrecognized quasi-state between Moldova and Ukraine that remains one of Eastern Europe's last frozen conflict zones. Following the ...

Thirty years ago, a ceasefire ended the bloodshed in breakaway Transnistria – but the price was consolidation of the separatists’ de facto independence and a legitimized Russian military presence in ...