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Russia will pull its troops out of Georgia proper in one month, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pledged today, but only after international monitors deploy around the breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Read more

Writer, political activist and father figure for contemporary Russian nationalism, Aleksandr Dugin is the founder of Russia’s International Eurasian Movement and a popular theorist among Russia’s hard-line elite. Read more

Many of this small onetime Soviet republic’s most dreaded nightmares have come, suddenly, to pass. Read more

MOSCOW – Russia formally recognized the independence of two separatist Georgian republics today, pushing tensions with the West and a simmering military conflict in the Caucasus toward a new, uncertain phase. Read more

The Russian parliament today called upon President Dmitry Medvedev to recognize the independence of two breakaway Georgian republics, a gambit that promises to inflame tensions between Russia and the United States. Read more

Dozens of people were killed Sunday when a passenger jet chartered by an Iranian tourism company crashed and burned after taking off from Manas International Airport in Kyrgyzstan. Read more

In this historic hub of expansion and empire, Russia’s military victory over U.S.-backed Georgia was cheered as evidence that Moscow has regained its global dominance – and proof that the rest of the world can’t risk standing in its way. Read more

- Two weeks after they crossed into this former Soviet republic, Russian military units began to pull back today, but questions remained about how completely Moscow intended to comply with a European-brokered cease-fire. Read more

A visit to this war-strafed city Sunday turned up no proof of Russian claims that more than 2,000 people died here. Read more