Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received Croatia’s newly appointed Ambassador to Armenia, Ivan Starčević, whose diplomatic residence is in Athens. 

EU leaders could order the European Commission to create a platform for Serbia’s accession at the end of June. A date for the formal launch of negotiations should be determined in October.

The Boston Marathon bombing in April 2013 abruptly brought to attention the situation in the North Caucasus where, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russia faces the same threat of radical Islam as the West does elsewhere. Most observers, who label the North Caucasus “Russia’s southern underbelly”, agree that the …