Eurasia News

Arsen Shoyan has been named the new Ambassador of Armenia to Bulgaria. He has been serving so far as head of the Expert-Analytical Department at the President’s Administration. Armenian former Ambassador to Bulgaria Sergey Manaseryan has been appointed deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia.

Head of the European External Action Service (EEAS) for Russia, Eastern Neighborhood and the Western Balkans Miroslav Lajčak will visit Albania today. He is coming to Albania in order to find a solution for the country’s political crisis. 

After the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted Dick Marty’s report on Tuesday both Belgrade and Priština eagerly expect the investigation. Marty also expects the investigation into human organ trade in Kosovo and Albania to begin. Belgrade, however, does not believe that EULEX could deal with it and …

The European Commission (EC) is calling for calm in Albania and urging leaders to resume dialogue aimed at ending the long-standing political stalemate. The EU’s executive also recommended a detailed investigation be conducted into the violent

Turkish lawmaker Mevlut Cavusoglu was re-elected on Monday (January 24th) as president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Thus, Cavusoglu, a member of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party, will head the organisation for another year.

Croatian Justice Minister Drazen Bosnjakovic confirmed on Monday (January 24th) that his ministry has received a list from Serbia containing the names of 33 veterans suspected of war crimes: Croatian citizens who were charged or were investigated by former Yugoslavia

Stefano Sannino, deputy director-general of the EU’s Directorate General for Enlargement, has called on BiH to implement necessary reforms stemming from the EU agenda and to prove it doesn’t need an international

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou shown pessimism for solving the Macedonia’s name issue between Athens and Skopje. Papandreou said he expects Macedonia to be named after a geographic definition with wide-usage. In his words Greece supports efforts of UN mediator Matthew Nimitz but

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in Brussels on Monday that the number of KFOR soldiers troops in Kosovo would be reduced by 50% as of March 1. Reducing the number of soldiers from the current 10,000 to 5,000 will be completed by March 12, Rasmussen announced, stressing that …

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will today in Strasbourg vote on a resolution based on the Marty report. CoE investigator Dick Marty published his report into allegations about disappearances