MOLDOVA The forthcoming two national holidays – the Independence Day of August 27 and the Limba Noastra [Our Language] of August 31 – will be celebrated particularly broadly and solemnly this year in Moldova. The Independence Day program will begin in the morning, when country leadership representatives will lay flowers …

SERBIA President Boris Tadić condemned on Tuesday the throwing of Molotov cocktails at the building of the Greek embassy in Belgrade, saying it was “intolerable”. Tadić conferred with Greek Ambassador Demestenis Stoidis and promised that state institutions would do everything to find the perpetrators and take them to justice, the …

KOSOVO EULEX denied on Wednesday a report in a Priština daily it sent a request to the Kosovo government “over negotiations with Serbia on customs”. According to Albanian language newspaper Koha Ditore, this had to do with trade and came following the negotiations on the signing of a protocol on …

SERBIA Infrastructure Minister Milutin Mrkonjić on Tuesday said that Serbia is very interested in buying the port of Bar in Montenegro. Mrkonjić told Podgorica television station Atlas that the Serbian industry is “very interested in the tender for the sale of the port”, adding that Serbia and Montenegro will also …

SERBIA The Supreme Court of Serbia has overturned a verdict that set Sinan Morina, charged with war crimes, free. The ethnic Albanian was a member of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Now the case has been returned to the first-degree court for a retrial. The statement from the Supreme …

HOLLAND The Hague Tribunal has set October 28 as the date for the arraignment of ethnic Kosovo Albanians Ramush Haradinaj, Idriz Balaj and Lah Brahimaj. The three are former members of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). After the 1999 war in the province, Haradinaj pursued a political career and …

SERBIA The Third Municipal Belgrade Office of the Public Prosecutor has raised an indictment proposal against Siniša Vučinić. Vučinić is facing charges over threats directed at MP Žarko Korać and reporter Miloš Vasić, spokesman Dragan Milošević said on Wednesday. Vučinić’s detention has been extended pending the next decision of the …

MOLDOVA Moldova’s Communist-led government has said it would submit its resignation at the opening of a new parliament this week. The declaration was drafted at the government’s final meeting and is to be handed in at the session on August 28 in the ex-Soviet republic. For the first time since …

RUSSIA Russia will never reverse its decision to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia as states independent of Georgia, President Dmitry Medvedev has said, the anniversary of the decision. The Kremlin recognized the Moscow-backed regions as independent on August 26 of last year, weeks after Russian forces crushed a Georgian attempt …

MACEDONIA Troopers of the Macedonian and US army will start a training, which will be realized in Ilinden barrack and Krivolak boot camp. Troopers from the regiment for special operations (RSO), the battalion of ARM’s police and representatives from Vermont National guard will participate in the training. The training’s purpose, …