2004
DECEMBER
December 27, 2004
Power Struggle
Margaret Warner talks to Los Angeles Times reporter David Holley in Kiev about the results of Ukraine's presidential re-vote on Sunday.

December 24, 2004
Power Struggle
Ukraine will hold a presidential re-vote Sunday. The Supreme Court there annulled the Nov. 21 election after allegations of voter fraud surfaced.

December 23, 2004
Sale or Seizure
Russian oil company Yukos lost its most valuable oil production subsidiary to a state-owned firm Wednesday. Correspondent Jeffrey Brown looks at the re-nationalization of the Russian oil company, Yukos, with Marshall Goldman, economist and associate director of the Davis Center for Russian studies at Harvard University, and J. Robinson West, founder of PFC Energy, a consulting group.

December 14, 2004
East-West Divide
Margaret Warner leads a discussion on recent tensions between the United States and Russia with Michael McFaul, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Edward Lozansky, president of the American University in Moscow.

December 10, 2004
Opposition Voice
Ray Suarez speaks with Oleh Rybachuk, chief of staff for Ukrainian opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko, about the upcoming re-vote in the contested Ukrainian presidential race.

December 3, 2004
Power Struggle
Julian Manyon of Independent Television News reports on the Ukrainian Supreme Court's decision to hold a new presidential run-off election. Then, Ray Suarez speaks with Frank Brown, who is in Kiev as a special correspondent for Newsweek.

SEPTEMBER
September 14, 2004
Power Play
Secretary of State Colin Powell expressed concern over the plan Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin announced Monday to gain greater authority over regional governors and parliamentary elections in the wake of recent terrorist attacks. Ray Suarez gets perspectives on Putin's proposed changes from Michael McFaul, an associate professor of political science at Stanford University, and Dimitri Simes, president of the Nixon Center.

September 8, 2004
Fighting Terrorism
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with western journalists and academics last night to address growing domestic anger and international concerns about his government's perceived failure to effectively fight terrorism. Gwen Ifill speaks with Toby Gati, a former assistant U.S. secretary of state during the Clinton administration who attended the meeting with the Russian president.

September 6, 2004
Bloody Attack
Russia continues its second day of national mourning for Belsan, the site of the deadly school siege where 335 people, over half of them children, died.

September 3, 2004
Bloody Siege at Russian School
Commandos stormed the school in southern Russia where Chechen rebels had held hundreds of hostages. Jonathan Miller of Independent Television News reports that more than 150 people died and over 500 were injured in the battle. Ray Suarez gets an update on the end to the standoff from Time Magazine Moscow Bureau Chief Paul Quinn-Judge. Then Margaret Warner follows up in a discussion with Glen Howard, president of the Jamestown Foundation, and Yo'av Karny, a senior fellow at the U.S. Institute for Peace.

AUGUST
August 27, 2004
Terrorism in Russia
Investigators found traces of explosives, an indicator of terrorism, at the wreckage site of one of the two Russian airplanes downed this week. Ray Suarez speaks with Lawrence Sheets, National Public Radio's Moscow bureau chief, and Michael McFaul, associate professor of political science at Stanford University, about who might be responsible for the crashes that killed 90 people.

JULY
July 14, 2004
Intelligence Failures
A British intelligence inquiry reported that the country's prewar estimates of Iraq's weapons capabilities had "serious flaws" and were partially based on "unreliable" sources, but the report found no evidence of deliberate distortion on the part of the Blair government. Ray Suarez discusses the report and its political implications for Prime Minister Tony Blair with Nile Gardiner, a visiting fellow in Anglo-American security policy at the Heritage Foundation, and Lionel Barber, U.S. managing editor of the Financial Times.

MAY
May 21, 2004
Newsmaker: Costas Karamanlis
Ray Suarez speaks with Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis about preparations for the upcoming Olympics in Athens, Cyprus' entry into the European Union and Greek relations with the Bush administration on Iraq.

MARCH
March 16, 2004
Terror and Politics
The investigation into the train bombings in Madrid last week widened as the death toll from the attacks rose to 201. Ray Suarez discusses Spanish reaction to the national tragedy with Salvador Sala, the Washington bureau chief for the Spanish network TV3, Television of Catalunya, and Jose Gijon of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

March 15, 2004
Aftermath in Spain
Margaret Warner looks at where the Spanish election results leave the Iraqi coalition and the war on terror with Richard Burt, former assistant secretary of State and ambassador to Germany under the Reagan administration, Charles Kupchan, former director of European affairs at the National Security Council under the Clinton administration, Daniel Benjamin, director for counterterrorism at NSC during the Clinton years, and Nicolas Checa, former advisor to the Zapatero campaign and current director of Kissinger McLarty Associates.

March 15, 2004
Aftermath in Spain
Reverberations continued across Europe from Sunday's elections in Spain, where Socialists swept the ruling Conservatives out of office over the issue of Spain's support of the Iraq war. Ray Suarez gets an update from Madrid from Washington Post correspondent Keith Richburg.

March 12, 2004
Conversation: Spanish Ambassador Ruperez
Millions of Spaniards mourned victims of the train bombing in Madrid that left 199 people dead and more than 1,400 wounded. Jim Lehrer discusses the attacks and their devastating impact with Spanish Ambassador to the United States Javier Ruperez.

March 11, 2004
Death in Madrid
At least 190 people were killed when a series of bombs exploded on trains and in rail stations in Spain. Ray Suarez discusses the situation with Michael Radu, co-chairman of the Center on Terrorism and Counterterrorism at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and Richard Gardner, former U.S. ambassador to Spain under President Clinton.

JANUARY
January 22, 2004
War Without End
Russia has fought a long civil war against the separation of its republic of Chechnya, but allegations of human-rights abuses are leading Moscow to increasingly transfer control to local authorities. Simon Marks looks at the war and the dim prospect for peace in Chechnya.