Eurasia

Russian Minister for Emergency Situations Sergei Shoigu says the customs union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will expand to include Montenegro and Serbia. The two are the only states in the region which Moscow has free trade agreements with, the minister said in Podgorica on Wednesday. “This will be an …

Representatives of Georgia and Russia will hold another round of negotiations under the mediation of Switzerland on Russia’s accession into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva on Thursday, Georgia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergi Kapanadze said.

The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, will kick off the 8th OSCE South Caucasus media conference in Tbilisi Marriott Hotel that will bring together over 70 journalists, representatives of non-governmental media organizations and officials from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The participants of the 2-day event will …

Georgia does not intend to join the new Eurasian alliance and common customs space created by the CIS countries, Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze said at a press conference after his meeting with Estonian counterpart Urmas Paet in Tbilisi on Wednesday.

Greece has been avoiding meetings over the name despite with Macedonia for several months, while those that have been held were insignificant, said Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. “The economic crisis created better position for

Reprezentantul special al Federaţiei Ruse pe problematica transnistreană, Serghei Gubarev, are de marţi, la Bucureşti, consultări cu secretarului de stat pentru afaceri europene Bogdan Aurescu. Traian Băsescu a reiterat, în urmă cu aproximativ o săptămână, la Adunarea Parlamentară

Councilors of four northern Kosovo municipalities are holding a meeting in Zubin Potok to discuss KFOR’s request to ensure freedom of movement. KFOR has warned it is determined to take action if Serbs did not make a decision on removal of the barricades on Wednesday.

A two-day general strike, which will practically paralyze the whole country, will be launched in Greece on Wednesday. The Civil Servants’ Confederation ADEDY representatives explained that workers in Greece could not live on their monthly wages any more, for which

Azerbaijani MP Ganira Pashayeva will today leave for Sofia to observe the presidential elections to be held in Bulgaria on Oct.23 as an observer of PACE. During the visit, Pashayeva will hold a series of meetings, including with the Central Election Commission Chairman and Secretary General of the Supreme Administrative …

A court in Serbia has decided that there are no legal grounds to extradite Bozidar Vucurevic to Croatia where he is wanted for ordering the shelling of Dubrovnik during Croatia’s war of independence. At the time relevant to the accusations, Vucurevic was wartime mayor of Trebinje, a town on the …