Serbian and Russian officials will today sign a special protocol to expand their Free Trade Agreement, the Serbian Government announces. Serbia’s Ministry of Economy declared earlier that this protocol relates to the export of medicines, meat, confectionery products and wine. Co-presidents of the Russian-Serbian Economy Cooperation Committee, Ivica Dacic and …

CHISINAU, April 5 (- The ruling Party of Communists leads in the Moldovan parliament election with 45.5% of votes, according to exit polls conducted at 220 polling stations. A total of 18,000 voters were polled. The Liberal Party and the Liberal Democratic Party rank second, each with 13.9%, while the …

An elderly Moldovan woman casts her vote in a mobile ballot box brought to her by election officials in the village of Dorotchaia, near the border with the pro-Russian breakaway Transdniester region. The country voted yesterday for a new parliament that will choose a successor to President Voronin, the only …

The Army is building $1.1 billion worth of military bases and other facilities in Afghanistan and is planning to start an additional $1.3 billion in projects this year, according to Col. Thomas E. O’Donovan, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Afghanistan District. Massive construction of barracks, training areas, …

A suicide bombing at a crowded Shiite mosque south of Pakistan’s capital killed 26 people, the latest evidence of how security in the U.S.-allied nation is crumbling well beyond the Afghan border region where al-Qaida and Taliban fighters thrive. The violence came Sunday as a senior Pakistani Taliban commander said …

CHISINAU  – Moldovans went to the polls on Sunday to vote for a new parliament that will choose a replacement for President Vladimir Voronin, the only communist leader in Europe and the former Soviet Union. Voronin, in office since 2001, cannot stand for a third consecutive term but has made …

Moldovans were voting in parliamentary elections with the dominant Communists, who tread a fine line between promoting EU integration and friendly ties with Moscow, tipped to win. The party, the first self-described Communist group to have won power in the former Soviet Union, is well ahead in opinion polls for …

TIRASPOL: As voters in the ex-Soviet republic of Moldova go to the polls today, half a million residents of an impoverished rebel province in the east of the country won’t take part. For the people of Transdniestr, which broke from Moldova after the collapse of the Soviet Union, all roads …

Chisinau – Active campaigning came to a halt in Moldova on Saturday, as the former Soviet republic prepared to elect a new parliament. The streets of the capital Chisinau were free of electioneering Saturday morning, as a nationwide last-day ban on election advertising went into effect. The poll-leading Communists ended …

Slovaks are voting Saturday in a presidential run-off election between the popular incumbent and a strong opposition challenger. President Ivan Gasparovic won nearly 47 percent of vote in the first round of elections last month. He now faces the top opposition candidate, sociologist and former social affairs minister Iveta Radicova, …