BELGRADE, Serbia Apart from 288 flats purchased at prices below market value during mandate of Vojislav Kostunica, another 100 flats are in the process of purchase. For 212 flats the users have not submit request for purchase. Serbia Government is to decide what shall happen with the remaining 312 state …

TURKEY Turkish Interior Minister Beşir Atalay on Wednesday visited chairman of the Union of Chambers’ & Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) Rıfat Hisarcıklıoğlu within the scope of government’s “democratic move” aiming to find a solution to Kurdish issue. Speaking after the meeting, Atalay said, “believe me, this is not an …

KOSOVO Kosovo radio and TV station (RTK) broadcasted exclusive videos of conversations of the three Serbian spies, arrested 2 months ago in Kosovo. On the videos, you can see how the three Serbian spies talk about buying false testimonies for trafficking of human organs from OVK representatives. It is confirmed …

KOSOVO, MONTENEGRO A new party under the name National Montenegro’s party in Kosovo has been registered in Kosovo Central election Committee (CEK). Lazar Radulovic is the leader of this party and he party’s purpose is to get national and citizen rights of Montenegrins in Kosovo. “We will work to solve …

ALBANIA Albania sent additional soldiers in Afghanistan. The Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha participated in the ceremony for sending additional quota peacekeepers in Afghanistan. The additional quota of Albanian troops in Afghanistan will be led by Italian forces and that is why the Italian Ambassador Sabah Delia said that we …

BULGARIA Bulgaria’s former Finance Minister, Plamen Oresharski, has accepted the invitation of his successor Simeon Djankov, and PM Borisov for a meeting. The meeting, in which the two Finance Ministers are expected to clear out their controversy about the emergence of a budget deficit, is taking place at the Ministry …

BULGARIA Bulgaria’s top archaeologist, Professor Nikolay Ovcharov, presented Wednesday the artifacts and jewelry that he discovered recently in Veliko Tarnovo, the capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1396 AD). Ovcharov has discovered the remains of the medieval St. Peter and St. Paul Monastery and the St. Ivan of Rila Church, …

ATHENS, Greece After the Bulgarians, Menduh Thaci too will demand that FYROM’s accession to NATO be halted but this time by Albania, the Greek newspaper Ethnos reports. The leader of the Democratic Part of Albanians (DPA) announced that over the next several days he would visit Sofia and meet with …

SOFIA, Bulgaria Pavlin Dimitrov, who has been chief secretary in the Ministry of Interior up to now, will be proposed for deputy interior minister, Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov announced ahead of the meeting of the Council of Ministers.

Russia is to spend almost $500m (£300m) next year reinforcing its military bases in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia, the prime minister says. Vladimir Putin’s announcement came as he arrived in Abkhazia for talks. He said Russia was committed to defending and financing the small strip of land in Georgia’s …