Russia has begun war games in its North Caucasus region neighbouring Georgia, in a warning to foes that the military remains on standby for any new conflict in the area. Dubbed Caucasus 2009, the week-long exercises that began on Monday are just north of the border where Russia and Georgia …

KUWAIT Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed Al-Sabah met here on Sunday with Romanian Foreign Undersecretary Doro Costa. The Romanian diplomat handed Sheikh Mohammed, also deputy Prime Minister, a letter from Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu.

BEIJING A delegation of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee, China’s top political advisory body, left here Sunday afternoon for good-will visits to Romania and Ukraine. 

Top world countries charged with overseeing peace-implementation in Bosnia and Herzegovina will begin meetings today in Sarajevo to decide the future of the international presence in the troubled country. The meeting of the Peace Implementation Council, PIC, comes amidst the worst post-war crisis in Bosnia and at a time of …

Slovenia and Croatia have entered into a new diplomatic dispute when Slovenia accused its neighbor of violating its airspace only a few days after Slovenia blocked Croatia’s EU accession talks. The Slovenian news agency STA reported on Saturday that two Croatian fighter jets, which were escorting a foreign delegation, had …

Serbs nationwide marked Vidovdan (St. Vitus Day) at the weekend, a largely celebrated religious and national holiday. On Sunday, the largest crowd since 1999 gathered for the Vidovdan celebrations, with several thousand people in Gazimestan, located near the Kosovo capital of Pristina, attending a ceremony commemorating the 620th anniversary of …

At the George W. Bush café in the Albanian town of Fushe Kruja, clients were glued to the television screen on Sunday morning as they watched Albania’s parliamentary election unfold. Roughly 3.1 million Albanians are eligible to vote for the country’s next parliament, in one of the most scrutinised elections …

„FMI pleacă a doua oară ca o soţie infidelă de la bărbat. Ei cred că noi o să întindem picioarele…?” (Preşedintele Vladimir Voronin, 24 iunie 2009) Acum vreo lună ne întrebam, la această rubrică, în ce monedă se va face „stabilizarea” RM: „euro” sau „rublă”? Evenimentele recente ne-au confirmat presupunerile …

SOFIA, Bulgaria Former Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku was released from detention Thursday (June 25th) but was not allowed to leave Bulgaria. The leader of the Social Democrat Party was detained Tuesday by Bulgarian police at a border crossing with Macedonia, based on an international arrest warrant issued by Serbia.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) High Representative Valentin Inzko insisted on Thursday (June 25th) that there is no alternative to dialogue among the three constituent peoples in the country. He was meeting with Milorad Dodik of Republika Srpska’s Alliance of Independent Social Democrats and Dragan Covic of the Croat Democratic …