New Bulgarian PM Petkov faces a struggle reconciling the competing demands of his coalition allies if Bulgaria is to go a year without yet another election. With three parliamentary and two presidential elections and the fall from power of Boyko Borissov, 2021 was one of the most eventful years in …

The US administration has imposed sanctions on several Bosnian officials and a TV station for alleged corruption and for trying to destabilise Bosnia and Herzegovina, but experts said these measures alone might not do much to ease the country’s political crisis. Bosnian Serb political leader Milorad Dodik, his adviser and …

Prosecutors in Albania say a former minister used a remarkably simple scheme to funnel big bribes for public contracts. It still took them several years to find him out.On September 26, 2016, a warehouseman at state-owned Albania Railways called Arber Denizi opened his own business for the import and export …

Serbian president may face an unusually tough year as a fragmented opposition consolidates itself and environmental protests continue. Ayear marked by crime and corruption scandals in the ruling Serbian Progressive Party caused some internal rife in this normally monolith party.

The United States and its EU partners stepped up warnings of major consequences if Russia invades Ukraine as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken welcomed German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock to Washington on January 5 for a meeting dominated by upcoming talks with Russia. Blinken said he and Baerbock emphasized …

Peacekeepers from a Russian-led regional security alliance will be sent to Kazakhstan to help stabilize the country, the prime minister of Armenia announced on January 5 after an unprecedented wave of unrest in the oil-rich Central Asian nation that was sparked by a fuel price hike. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol …

The new year has not started well for Emmanuel Macron. It began badly when some bright spark in the Elysée thought it would be a good idea to mark France’s six-month presidency of the European Union by unfurling the bloc’s blue and gold flag under the Arc de Triomphe. Millions …

Глубоко анализировать всё, что происходит сейчас в Казахстане не так просто, потому что событий миллион, новостей каждый час – тьма. И мой текст через пару часов наверняка устареет. Но какие-то вещи очевидны и не зависят от новостных молний. Во-первых, удивительно, насколько плохо власти понимают народ. Народ и сам от себя, …

Путин не захочет, чтобы в соседней стране произошла очередная цветная революция Инфляция здесь была только искрой, от которой вспыхнули протесты. Я понимаю, что на самом деле в Казахстане вырвалось наверх скрытое течение разочарования из-за нехватки демократии. Ведь молодые казахи, которые получают информацию и знания в Интернете, особенно в Алматы, хотят …

A spate of attacks this week on bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria were probably conducted by Iran-backed militias, the Pentagon said Wednesday, stopping short of directly implicating Tehran. There is a “working level assumption” that incidents every day this week, including rocket attacks and incursions from explosives-laden …