Eurasia

Eight international peacekeepers were injured on Thursday during an operation to remove barricades set up by Serbs in northern Kosovo, the NATO-led Kosovo peacekeeping force (KFOR) said. “Eight KFOR soldiers were injured so far in the operation,” KFOR’s press office said in a statement. “They were injured by tear gas, …

KFOR started removing ethnic Serbs’ barricades in North Kosovo on Thursday morning. At 5:45 a.m. local time NATO headed to the barricades with armored carriers and started removing them. The peacekeeping troops called on Serbs to withdraw, saying they would use force. The Serbs refused to leave the site and …

Romania’s government has approved a draft law allowing the stationing of elements of the US and NATO missile defense system in Europe at a Romanian air base. The legislation in question permits the building of an anti-ballistic interceptor site at the Deveselu Air Base located in Southwestern Romania, less than …

He also called on northern Kosovo Serb leaders to make decisions that are in citizens’ best interest. “I demand from KFOR and EULEX to restrain themselves from the use of force and from local leaders to make decisions that are exclusively in the vital interest of our people in Kosovo …

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