Eurasia News

Both chambers of the Russian parliament will approve a motion to join the Russian Crimea. This is the first official sign that Moscow supports the actions of the new authorities of the Crimea, who announced Thursday peninsula

The EU unilaterally open European market for products and manufacturers in Ukraine. Brussels has also approved the decision to sign a political party association agreement with Kiev “in the near future”.

Prime Ministers of Bulgaria and Romania have agreed to support Serbia’s EU accession at a meeting in the Danube town of Ruse.

The U.S. guided-missile destroyer Truxtun is preparing for Black Sea military exercises with Bulgarian and Romanian naval forces. The ship departed from Greece early

Ukraine’s parliament began a procedure to dissolve the regional assembly in Crimea after it asked to join Russia, Ukraine’s interim president Oleksandr Turchynov said Thursday. 

Crimea’s Parliament voted to join Russia on March 6 and its Moscow-backed government set a referendum within 10 days on the decision in a dramatic escalation of the crisis over the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula. 

Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf’s counsel Thursday filed an appeal in the Supreme Court against the decision of a special court not to allow the high treason case against his client to be held in a military court.

The United States will send 6 additional fighter jets to Lithuania in order to reassure its Eastern European allies over increased fears from Russia’s incursion in Ukraine.

The Prime Ministers of Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia will hold a trilateral meeting in Bulgaria’s Danube city of Ruse on Friday.

Tunisia’s president on Thursday lifted the state of emergency that has been in place since the outbreak of a popular revolution three years ago, and a top military chief said soldiers stationed in some of the