Russia is concerned about the intensified activity of Georgian security services in the territories of sovereign neighboring republics, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Aleksandr
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Mladic: I do not defend myself but my country and my nation
War crimes suspect Ratko Mladic appeared before the UN war crimes court in the Hague for the first time on Friday, telling judges that he is a “gravely ill man”. “I defended my country and my people,” Mladic said defiantly at the end of Friday’s initial hearing. He repeated
Read More »Greek FM: a geographic term is an acceptable solution for Greece for the name dispute with Macedonia
“A name with a geographic term is an acceptable solution for Greece for the name dispute with Macedonia”, said Greek foreign minister Dimitris Droutsas. He added
Read More »IMF suspends Kosovo aid
The International Monetary Fund has suspended its 2011 Stand-by Agreement with Kosovo, after Pristina breached the deal by implementing pay raises. The 18-month-deal would have provided Kosovo with 87 million euros in soft loans from the IMF plus another 100 million euros from the European Commission, pledged at a 2008
Read More »Bosnian Serb MPs drop referendum
The parliament in Bosnia’s predominantly Serb entity has formally dropped a plan to hold a controversial referendum on the state court. The National Assembly of Republika Srpska, RSNA, passed a decision to repeal the
Read More »Transnistrian parliamentarians in working visit to Russia
A delegation of Transnistrian parliamentarians, led by chairman of the Transnistrian supreme soviet Anatoly Kaminsky, left for a working visit to Moscow on Tuesday that will last until the end of this week. The visit program includes discussions of cooperation development in the frameworks of bilateral inter-parliamentary and inter-party relations, …
Read More »Mladic was extradited to Hague
War crimes suspect Ratko Mladic will make his first appearance before the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague on Friday at 10am. Mladic was placed in an isolation cell at the Hague Tribunal’s detention unit on Tuesday night as he awaited medical exams before his initial appearance in front …
Read More »Hague prosecutors consider combining Karadzic, Mladic trials
The Hague tribunal prosecutor’s office is mulling whether to combine the trial of former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic with that of former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic, Frederick
Read More »Serbian Interior Minister Dacic says Serbia does not face suspension of visa free regime
Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic attends a briefing Tuesday (May 31st) in Brussels for visa experts from missions of EU member states. On Monday, he met with EU Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom to
Read More »Turkey and Georgia took their visa-free travel one step further
Turkey and Georgia took their visa-free travel policy a step further on Monday, initiating a passport-free travel regime under which their nationals will be able to visit each other’s country with national identity cards alone.
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