Balkans

Government stopped distribution of another 100 state flats

BELGRADE, Serbia Apart from 288 flats purchased at prices below market value during mandate of Vojislav Kostunica, another 100 flats are in the process of purchase. For 212 flats the users have not submit request for purchase. Serbia Government is to decide what shall happen with the remaining 312 state …

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RTK shows exclusive videos from three arrested Serbian spies

KOSOVO Kosovo radio and TV station (RTK) broadcasted exclusive videos of conversations of the three Serbian spies, arrested 2 months ago in Kosovo. On the videos, you can see how the three Serbian spies talk about buying false testimonies for trafficking of human organs from OVK representatives. It is confirmed …

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Montenegrins from Kosovo form party

KOSOVO, MONTENEGRO A new party under the name National Montenegro’s party in Kosovo has been registered in Kosovo Central election Committee (CEK). Lazar Radulovic is the leader of this party and he party’s purpose is to get national and citizen rights of Montenegrins in Kosovo. “We will work to solve …

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Albania sends additional forces in Afghanistan

ALBANIA Albania sent additional soldiers in Afghanistan. The Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha participated in the ceremony for sending additional quota peacekeepers in Afghanistan. The additional quota of Albanian troops in Afghanistan will be led by Italian forces and that is why the Italian Ambassador Sabah Delia said that we …

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Bulgaria New, Former Finance Ministers to Settle Deficit Controversy

BULGARIA Bulgaria’s former Finance Minister, Plamen Oresharski, has accepted the invitation of his successor Simeon Djankov, and PM Borisov for a meeting. The meeting, in which the two Finance Ministers are expected to clear out their controversy about the emergence of a budget deficit, is taking place at the Ministry …

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Archaeologist Presents Precious Medieval Finds from Second Bulgarian State

BULGARIA Bulgaria’s top archaeologist, Professor Nikolay Ovcharov, presented Wednesday the artifacts and jewelry that he discovered recently in Veliko Tarnovo, the capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1396 AD). Ovcharov has discovered the remains of the medieval St. Peter and St. Paul Monastery and the St. Ivan of Rila Church, …

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Ethnos, Greece: Skopje attacked over issue with Bulgaria

ATHENS, Greece After the Bulgarians, Menduh Thaci too will demand that FYROM’s accession to NATO be halted but this time by Albania, the Greek newspaper Ethnos reports. The leader of the Democratic Part of Albanians (DPA) announced that over the next several days he would visit Sofia and meet with …

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Government Says Ohrid Accord Is Alive

MACEDONIA Opposition claims that the 2001 Ohrid Peace Accord is a dead letter are unfounded, Macedonia’s Deputy Prime Minister Abdilakim Ademi says. The pact ended that year’s short-lived ethnic Albanian insurgency, promising the country’s largest minority official recognition of its language and culture and positive discrimination in state employment.

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Bulgarian government to pen Kremikovtzi plan

A working group will be formed to work out ways to lift ailing steelmaker Kremikovtzi out of the doldrums while protecting to the utmost the interests of the state, workers and bondholders, a government media statement said. The announcement came after Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov met representatives of bondholders …

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