Kosovo’s deputies have not stopped smoking in Kosovo’s Parliament, setting an example of how to breach the law. Although smoking in offices and institutions, including Kosovo’s Parliament, has been banned for three years, three deputies of the Parliamentary Commission for Budget and Finance have been spotted smoking in one of …

Serbia ranks as the 11th worst country in the world at dealing with construction permits for business, according to a recent World Bank report. The country’s protracted legal procedures for constructing industrial sites have become even lengthier, according to the World Bank’s 2009 ‘Doing Business’ report. The annual comparative study …

It was not immediately clear why the giant bronze monument at the Finland railway station was targeted. A powerful blast ripped a metre-wide hole in one of Russia’s best-known statues of Vladimir Lenin on Wednesday. It was not immediately clear why the giant bronze monument at the Finland railway station …