Balkans

Europe’s main elections watchdog, the OSCE, has given up its mission to observe Russia’s parliamentary polls next month, citing a lack of co-operation from the Kremlin.

Serbia is warning the West ahead of a new round of talks on its breakaway Kosovo province that a declaration of independence by the Albanian majority would lead to new secessionist moves in the Balkans.

Detaşat în câştigător, fostul lider paramilitar Hashim Thaci a vorbit deja despre o provincie suverană şi independentă după 10 decembrie. El ar putea deveni primul şef de guvern după secesiune.

On June 1 2007 the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office suspended the official inquiry into the “terrorist” attack on the Dubrovka theatre complex, during which Chechen guerrillas took hostage more than 900 spectators of the show “Nord-Ost”.

A sort of ‘two-party’ system will emerge from the December vote in Russia. But it won’t be even the docile two-party system envisioned under the Unified Russia-A Just Russia plan.

All wars are hell, but some hells are worse than others. If Arkady Babchenko is to be believed, Russian conscripts fighting their country’s long, shambolic war in Chechnya suffered more at the hands of their own people than those of the enemy.

Preşedintele Ucrainei, Victor Iuşcenko, a declarat că preşedintele României, Traian Băsescu, trebuie să viziteze Insula Şerpilor pentru a se documenta la faţa locului în ceea ce priveşte proiectele Ucrainei de

The Commission for declassification of the secret services archives of Bulgaria has so far found 620 former communist secret service agents, member of the commission Ekaterina Boncheva said. The only institution where there were no members connected to

Serbia riscă să intre în criză şi s-ar putea confrunta cu violenţe dacă albanezii din Kosovo proclamă unilateral

MiniÅŸtrii de externe din Abhazia, Transnistria ÅŸi Osetia de Sud au semnat, sâmbătă, o declaraÅ£ie comună în care reafirmă hotărârea celor trei teritorii separatiste “de a