A brief look at the stories making headlines in the Russian-language press

Thousands of Muslims from a small ethnic group known as the Meskhetian Turks are fleeing this Black Sea region for the United States.

Unlike in Ukraine, the West is not backing demands for a rerun of the Azeri vote.

Some 12,000 people convened last week in Tunisia for a United Nations conference on the Internet. Many delegates want an end to the U.S. Commerce Department's control over the assignment of web site addresses and e-mail accounts.

If diplomacy is defined as the application of manners to international relations, then the state of the world is worse than we thought.

Fourteen years ago, Moscow's summer was filled with sheer exuberance. The Soviet Union was suddenly gone, separated into 15 different states and a thousand pieces.

In the Soviet era, we all belonged to some kind of political or professional organization -- the Komsomol, the Communist Party, a trade union. During the perestroika years, we fought to institute the secret ballot in these organizations, so that important decisions could be made without outside pressure. And we were successful. The secret ballot became an integral part of our lives.

When a commander goes into battle, he needs to hold back a portion of his troops for deployment at a critical juncture. President Vladimir Putin's strategic reserve goes by the name of Sergei Ivanov. After the Kursk tragedy, when it became clear that the top brass were brazenly lying to their commander-in-chief and deliberately dragging their feet on military reform, Putin sent in Ivanov to sort things out.

The Israeli prime minister will lead a centrist faction into an early vote.

Iranian lawmakers have voted to resume uranium enrichment and end snap UN checks of its nuclear sites if Tehran is referred to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions.