Eurasia News

Medvedev, Obama may set nuclear agenda

Russian and US presidents should make progress on long-range nuclear weapons cuts when they meet next month, but Moscow will be linking this to US anti-missile plans which it opposes, an official said. A follow-up pact to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START-1), which expires in December, is on …

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Russia stands firm on sovereignty of Abkhazia, South Ossetia

MOSCOW- Russia will not back away from its recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in order to begin a dialogue on relations with Georgia, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. Davaid Bakradze, a spokesman for the Georgian parliament, said on Thursday that Tbilisi was ready to begin a dialogue …

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Stanishev wants EU watchdog in Sofia to oversee progress

An article in the Economist magazine reports that Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev has proposed a kind of committee of European Union officials to visit Bulgaria in order to monitor and enforce progress in the country’s drive against corruption and organised crime. Stanishev’s idea follows the European Commission’s decision to …

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Bulgaria to receive about EUR 105 million on different projects: PM

Brussels. Bulgaria will receive about EUR 105 million on different projects, expect for Nabucco. This is what Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev said at a video conference with Brussels, FOCUS News Agency reporter informs. Energy projects on infrastructure are among the projects, which will be financed. 

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EC denies Bulgarian Cabinet claims of support over Kozloduy compensations

The European Commission denied on March 20 the claims of the Bulgarian Cabinet that it won the backing of EC president Jose Manuel Barroso for the Bulgarian demands for additional compensation for the shutdown of two units at Kozloduy nuclear station. Earlier in the day, the Government press service said …

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EULEX Chief Visits Belgrade

The head of Kosovo’s Rule of Law mission, EULEX, visited Belgrade on Friday in order to find a ”pragmatic solution” to many of the outstanding issues that have dogged his mission since its launch in December last year. It is the first time that Yves de Kermabon has visited the …

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Serbian Radicals Protest ”Queer” Law

Radical party deputies – in protest at Serbia’s new anti discrimination bill – on Thursday brought to parliament and handed round posters with the photograph of Boban Stojanovic, a gay activist and journalist of the ”Borba” daily paper, pictured in his underwear. The words ”queer law” were scrawled over Stojanovic’s …

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If Croatia Drops Genocide Suit, Serbia Will Too

As a solution for the border problem with Serbia, at Danube River, Serbian PM sees drawing it in the middle of the river. Before meeting with Croatian Prime Minster Ivo Sanader, Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic said that Serbia will invite Croatia to drop its lawsuit against Serbia for genocide …

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Homemade Bomb Explodes Outside Greek MP`s Office

Deputy Kyriakos Mitsotakis was not at his office at the time of the attack, the latest violence to rock the conservative government. Unidentified assailants exploded a homemade bomb at the office of a Greek ruling party deputy on Wednesday, causing damage but no injuries, police said. Deputy Kyriakos Mitsotakis, 41, …

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