Eurasia

Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, the current holder of the EU presidency, is due to arrive in Skopje this Tuesday for an official visit to Macedonia, where he will meet his counterpart Nikola Gruevski and President Branko Crvenkovski. The visit comes just weeks before the March 22 presidential and local …

The small Pacific state of the Republic of Palau became the 56th country to recognise Kosovo as an independent state on Monday. The President of Palau Johanson Toribiong sent a letter to the newly independent Balkan state’s President, Fatmir Sejdiu, confirming the recognition of Kosovo. 

Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has invited Serbia’s President Boris Tadic to meet in Pristina to discuss bilateral cooperation between the two states. “You know that Belgrade wants handcuffs and keys for me every day,” he told media in the Serb-populated town of Cagllavica on Sunday, saying instead that he …

Bosnia’s Minister of Security, Tarik Sadovic, has warned the Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic, that “good neighborly relations” between the two countries could “be jeopardized” if Serbia insists on prosecuting 19 Bosnian officials charged for war crimes against the Yugoslav Army in 1992. “I have asked that Dacic, in his …

The son of a right-wing politician has been arrested on suspicions of killing a 21 year old woman in the Black Sea town of Varna. Georgi Tsvetanov is the only suspect for the murder of Radostina Evtimova, whose mutilated body was found with numerous stab wounds at a flat in …

The second edition of the Macedonian pantomime and physical theatre festival Panphys opens today, bringing important artists from the region and the world to the capital Skopje. The festival, which will take place at the Macedonian National Theatre until March 14, opens tonight with Monologue with a Suitcase – a …

Economists in Kosovo say that there has not been adequate analysis on the impact of the global economic slowdown on the country, asking government and other relevant actors to undertake necessary measures to prepare for the crisis which will inevitably hit the newly independent state, they say. 

Romania’s President Traian Basescu addressing parliament on Monday asked “for solidarity and austerity” as he sought to prepare the public for possible International Monetary Fund, IMF, aid in a bid to shore up his country’s faltering economy. “The country will have to pay now for the lack of structural reforms …

Protest organisers said three or four people were lightly injured when police moved in to push back demonstrators. Dozens of anti-government protesters in Georgia briefly scuffled with police outside parliament in the capital Tbilisi on Monday and one person was detained. Protest organisers said three or four people were lightly …

Representatives of the party `New Slovenia´ consider that Tuerk should condemn the crimes in Huda Jama, and SLS seeks his resignation. The Slovenian president Danilo Tuerk said on Sunday that he recognises the political manipulation in the calls that he visit the grave in the pit in Huda Jama, Slovenia. …