In 1989, Deng Xiaoping was afraid of house arrest and new Red Guards The book, just published in the United States, can significantly influence the internal political life of the PRC. A collection of documentary materials shedding light on the events of the spring and summer of 1989 was published in New York.

Eduard Shevardnadze does not yet need EU troops Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, in an interview with national radio, ruled out at this stage the possibility of considering the introduction of European Union rapid reaction forces into the Pankisi Gorge.

Chechen militants are overtaking Russians in Algeria In Algeria, for the first time since 1996, foreigners, including our compatriots, became victims of rebel groups. Four Russians (Yuri Zhelyakov, Alexander Popov, Nikolai Cherdakov and Vladimir Terentyev) were killed in a forest in the northeastern province of Annaba. On Monday, the police found both the burnt Volga and the corpses.

The Balkan wars undermined the health of peacekeepers The scandal surrounding the “Balkan syndrome,” cancers allegedly caused by NATO's use of uranium-filled shells during the conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo, is growing like a snowball. Balkan veterans suffering from leukemia are being announced in more and more countries - from Greece to Canada.

The riot of Belarusian prisoners is suppressed Residents of the Belarusian city of Vitebsk will remember Christmas 2001 as a prisoner uprising. On the night before Christmas, January 6, the local juvenile colony rioted. 300 riot police were deployed to quell the riots, which involved 200 prisoners. Information about the riot is extremely contradictory. According to one version, its immediate cause was the sending of several violators of the prison regime to the punishment cell.