Has Ukraine's orange coalition reached point of no return?

By: RFEL, September 4, 2008

In announcing the collapse of the coalition government formed by the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense bloc, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko accused his Orange Revolution ally of joining forces with rival parties, while some of his aides suggested that Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko might have even betrayed national interests.

http://www.rferl.org/Content/Has_Ukraines_Orange_Coalition_Reached_Point_Of_No_Return/1196377.html

Georgia's forgotten legacy

By: Open Democracy, September 3, 2008

Georgia's recovery from losses of war and territory will be through a return to the strategy and values that underpinned its democratic revolution, says Vicken Cheterian

http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/georgia-the-rose-revolution-s-forgotten-legacy

International Court examines Switzerland’s FARC connections

By: Human Rights Tribune, September 3, 2008

The Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno Ocampo, is questioning Berne about alleged support networks for the Colombia’s rebel group the FARC in Switzerland. Two persons have been implicated.

http://www.humanrights-geneva.info/International-Court-examines,3418

Russia: Website owner’s last words to his editor: “Roza, they are taking me away”

By: RSF, September 4, 2008

Roza Malsagova, the editor of the Ingushetiya.ru website, Ingushetia’s only source of independent news and information, has just lost an ally in her struggle against the government’s determination to suppress all coverage of human rights abuses in this southern Russian republic, which adjoins Chechnya and which is contaminated by the region’s conflicts.

http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=20

Russia: One journalist killed, another beaten in North Caucasus

By: CPJ, September 3, 2008

Authorities must thoroughly investigate the murder in Dagestan of Telman Alishayev, a reporter and host for the Islamic television channel TV-Chirkei, and the severe attack in Kabardino-Balkariya against Miloslav Bitokov, editor-in-chief of the independent weekly Gazeta Yuga.

http://www.cpj.org/news/2008/europe/russ03sep08na.html