Eurasia

There is no need to make urgent and hasty decisions although Macedonia will probably have to make one more budget cut by year’s end, the new finance minister said Sunday. “Our preliminary analyses indicate that there will be a need for a re-balance in the third quarter of 2009. However, …

As the European Commission moves to adopt visa liberalization for the Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia, leaving out Albania and Bosnia, it is fair enough to criticize the EU for major political blunders and possibly Muslim ghettoization, but in the end, the Bosnian government should be severely taken to task for …

SARAJEVO Predsjedavajući disciplinskih komisija Agencije za državnu službu BiH po jednom riješenom predmetu dobijat će 300 KM, dok članovi imaju pravo na naknadu od po 200 KM. Regulisano je ovo odlukom Vijeća ministara BiH, koje je u četvrtak usvojilo set odluka o visini naknada za članstvo u komisijama i upravnim …

SARAJEVO Predsjedavajući Vijeća ministara BiH smijenio je jučer ministra sigurnosti BiH Tarika Sadovića na zahtjev rukovodstva SDA, koja je odlazećeg ministra i nominirala na ovu funkciju, potvrdili su u Špirićevom kabinetu. Sulejman Tihić, predsjednik SDA, potvrdio je da je obaviješten o Sadovićevoj smjeni.

SARAJEVO Predsjedavajući Vijeća ministara BiH smijenio je jučer ministra sigurnosti BiH Tarika Sadovića na zahtjev rukovodstva SDA, koja je odlazećeg ministra i nominirala na ovu funkciju, potvrdili su u Špirićevom kabinetu.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov will sue for libel a Russian rights group which has blamed him for the kidnap and murder of a prominent activist, Interfax news agency quoted Kadyrov’s lawyer as saying on Friday. Natalia Estemirova, who worked for the human rights group Memorial, was abducted in the Chechen …

MOSCOW Russian President Dmitry Medvedev discussed the issues of bilateral interaction with the President of Kazakhstan Nazarbayev and congratulated him with the victorious finish in the race of the Kazakh racing stallion. 

Next week, US Vice President Joe Biden will visit Ukraine and Georgia. According to US Vice President’s Counselor, Tony Blinken, Joe Biden will deliver statements focusing on relations between Ukraine and Georgia in Kiev and Tbilisi. US Vice President has scheduled meetings with Ukrainian and Georgian leaders, as well as …

The European Commission recommendation that Macedonian citizens be allowed to enter Schengen countries visa-free from January 1 2010 has caused a drop in demand for Bulgarian passports, Skopje-based Dnevnik said on July 17 2009. Macedonia is being given the concession along with two other Western Balkans states, Serbia and Montenegro.

TIRANA Nearly a week after parliamentary elections, Albania’s governing Democratic Party began to assemble a coalition government on Saturday, even as the opposition Socialists decried the move as premature.