Eurasia

Serbs nationwide marked Vidovdan (St. Vitus Day) at the weekend, a largely celebrated religious and national holiday. On Sunday, the largest crowd since 1999 gathered for the Vidovdan celebrations, with several thousand people in Gazimestan, located near the Kosovo capital of Pristina, attending a ceremony commemorating the 620th anniversary of …

At the George W. Bush café in the Albanian town of Fushe Kruja, clients were glued to the television screen on Sunday morning as they watched Albania’s parliamentary election unfold. Roughly 3.1 million Albanians are eligible to vote for the country’s next parliament, in one of the most scrutinised elections …

„FMI pleacă a doua oară ca o soţie infidelă de la bărbat. Ei cred că noi o să întindem picioarele…?” (Preşedintele Vladimir Voronin, 24 iunie 2009) Acum vreo lună ne întrebam, la această rubrică, în ce monedă se va face „stabilizarea” RM: „euro” sau „rublă”? Evenimentele recente ne-au confirmat presupunerile …

Članovi parlamenta BiH su veoma osjetljivi na siromaštvo, glad i nezaposlenost. Na svakoj sjednici većinu vremena parlamentarci potroše u traženju rješenja za ove probleme. Na njihovim licima svakodnevno se može iščitati snažna suosjećajnost sa siromašnim, obespravljenim, gladnim, nezaposlenim, izbjeglim, protjeranim… Teško je to breme koje je život natovario na pleća …

SARAJEVO – Predsjedavajući Predsjedništva BiH Nebojša Radmanović pozvao je juče političke lidere u Bosni i Hercegovini da pomognu u smirivanju situacije u državi. Ocijenio je da prudski proces mora biti nastavljen i proširen, poručivši da je princip dogovora jedino rješenje za BiH. “Nije vrijeme za slavlje zbog moguće propasti prudskog …

SARAJEVO – Predsjednici osam najvećih stranaka pozicije i opozicije trebalo bi da se sastanu u nedjelju u Mostaru kako bi razgovarali o aktuelnoj političkoj situaciji u zemlji uoči predstojećeg sastanka Vijeća za implementaciju mira u BiH. Izjavio je to Dragan Čović, predsjednik HDZ BiH, koji će biti domaćin ovog sastanka. …

SOFIA, Bulgaria Former Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku was released from detention Thursday (June 25th) but was not allowed to leave Bulgaria. The leader of the Social Democrat Party was detained Tuesday by Bulgarian police at a border crossing with Macedonia, based on an international arrest warrant issued by Serbia.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) High Representative Valentin Inzko insisted on Thursday (June 25th) that there is no alternative to dialogue among the three constituent peoples in the country. He was meeting with Milorad Dodik of Republika Srpska’s Alliance of Independent Social Democrats and Dragan Covic of the Croat Democratic …

SKOPJE, Macedonia Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak on Thursday (June 25th) urged both Macedonia and Greece to resolve their long-standing name dispute. At a meeting in Skopje, he assured his Macedonian counterpart, Antonio Milososki, of Slovakia’s support for the country’s EU and NATO bids.

ZAGREB, Croatia The country celebrated the 18th anniversary of its independence from Yugoslavia on Thursday (June 25th). President Stipe Mesic, Parliament Speaker Luka Bebic, and Prime Minister Ivo Sanader laid flowers and lit candles at the Mirogoj Cemetery in Zagreb to honour the memory of all Croats who died in …