Eurasia Press & News
Economically stricken Romania has decided to cut various allowances for parliamentarians.Romanian MPs are facing austerity, with their monthly housing stipends and travel expenses being halved, according to the assembly draft budget for 2013. An MP’s monthly allowance for housing will drop from 7,400 lei (some 1,650 euro) to 4,000 lei. …
Read More »‘Bosnian Book of the Dead’ Published
A Bosnian research group has issued a book with the names of around 96,000 victims of the 1990s conflict, intended to be the most accurate memorial yet published.“I think it is vital that we have, in one place, the names and identities of Bosnian citizens who were killed during the …
Read More »Last Yugoslav King’s Remains Return to Serbia
King Peter II, who was ousted during WWII and died in 1970, will be reburied in his home country.“The remains of the Peter the Second were exhumed from St. Sava Monastery Church at Libertyville in the United States last week and will arrive at Belgrade airport on Tuesday,” the Karadjordjevic …
Read More »Petition Demands Serbian UN President’s Firing
Campaigners launched an online petition to dismiss Vuk Jeremic, the President of the UN General Assembly, after a Serb nationalist song was performed at the UN.”Vuk Jeremic should be removed so he cannot use UN platform to spread hate,” reads the petition, which so far has more than 3,500 supporters. …
Read More »Bulgarian Politician’s Attacker Evades Assassination Charges
A man who dramatically threatened a top ethnic Turkish politician with a pistol on live television will not be charged with attempted murder.Prosecutors say that Oktay Enimehmedov, who put a tear-gas gun to Ahmed Dogan’s head while he was speaking at a conference in Sofia which was being broadcast live …
Read More »Albania Nationalizes Troubled Power Firm
The Albanian energy regularity agency, ERE, on Monday stripped the local subsidiary of the Czech power giant CEZ of its operating license, effectively taking it back into state control.The decision, which outrights nationalizes the utility company, CEZ Shprendarje, is the latest twist in a long-running dispute between Tirana and the …
Read More »Serbia Albanians Protest Monument’s Removal
Protesters rallied in the town of Presevo on Monday after Serbian police moved in to remove a monument to ethnic Albanian fighters.Several thousand ethnic Albanians rallied on Monday in Presevo in southern Serbia following Belgrade’s removal of a controversial monument dedicated to Albanian guerrillas. Demonstrators at the peaceful hour-long rally …
Read More »Petition Demands Serbian UN President’s Firing
Campaigners launched an online petition to dismiss Vuk Jeremic, the President of the UN General Assembly, after a Serb nationalist song was performed at the UN.”Vuk Jeremic should be removed so he cannot use UN platform to spread hate,” reads the petition, which so far has more than 3,500 supporters. …
Read More »Serbian Memorials Destroyed in Kosovo
Police stepped up security near Serbian monuments and graves after several attacks amid heightened tensions over Belgrade’s removal of an Albanian memorial.Three people have been detained after a World War II memorial was demolished in the town of Vitia and more than 60 Serbian graves were attacked across Kosovo on …
Read More »Bulgarian Politician’s Attacker Evades Assassination Charges
A man who dramatically threatened a top ethnic Turkish politician with a pistol on live television will not be charged with attempted murder.Prosecutors say that Oktay Enimehmedov, who put a tear-gas gun to Ahmed Dogan’s head while he was speaking at a conference in Sofia which was being broadcast live …
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