October 7, 2010 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Turkey
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will today hold talks with Greek Cypriot officials during a visit to the divided island of Cyprus, the first by a Russian head of state. Medvedev was scheduled to travel from Algiers
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October 7, 2010 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
A former commander of UN forces in Bosnia, giving testimony for the prosecution at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, has said that the Bosnian Serb political elite had effective control over its military forces in the field. General Rose told the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, that …
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October 7, 2010 Balkan Press, Eurasia Press, Special Reporters
written by: Ioannis Michaletos, 06-Oct-10 – Interview with Jean Charles Brisard to Ioannis Michaletos – – Since the attacks on the twin towers almost a decade ago, there was intense effort by international authorities to curb the flow of funds directed towards terrorist organizations. Do you assess that we can …
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October 6, 2010 Albania, Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
Kosovo government in Priština FM Skender Hyseni claims that ten countries have already set a deadline for recognition of Kosovo. He said that about 60 countries had promised Priština that they would soon consider recognizing Kosovo.
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October 6, 2010 Balkan News, Eurasia News
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomed Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov in Washington, DC, Tuesday night. On part of the Obama Administration, Clinton has pledged American support for Bulgaria’s actions in fighting corruption and organized crime, and reforming the judiciary, Mladenov announced
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October 6, 2010 Balkan News, Croatia, Eurasia News, Serbia
Croat President Ivo Josipović attended the unveiling of a memorial for nine elderly Serb men killed in late September 1995 in the village of Varivode near Knin. Their murder happened almost two months after the military Operation Storm against these Serb areas of Croatia.
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October 6, 2010 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said in Belgrade that Serbia’s future is in the EU and that Serbia needs to become a member as soon as possible. At the end of an event called Serbia on the Road to Europe – 10 Years Later, Papandreou said that in 2000, the …
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October 6, 2010 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
NATO peacekeepers and European Union police have stepped up patrols in Kosovo’s tense north in a bid to fight a surge in violent incidents, including arson and explosions, officials said. The top NATO commander in Kosovo, Maj. Gen. Erhard Buehler, and police chief Udo Moeller said they have more foot …
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October 6, 2010 Balkan News, Eurasia News
The European Union said its estimates for Greece’s budget deficit and government debt will be revised higher for the years 2006-2009. Greece pledged to reduce its budget shortfall, the second largest in the EU last year, and increase tax revenue in return for emergency loans from the bloc and the …
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October 6, 2010 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News, Serbia
Bosnian Serb president-elect Milorad Dodik on Tuesday repeated his hardline position dismissing Bosnia as an “impossible state” cooked up by the international community. “Bosnia is impossible as a state. It was never a state and it will never be one (…) Bosnia is only possible as a union of republics,” …
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