August 20, 2010 Balkan News, Croatia, Eurasia News
Branimir Glavas, the Croatian former lawmaker convicted of war crimes, has been stripped of his war honours and rank of general by Croatia’s president. The order by Ivo Josipovic came three weeks after Glavas was sentenced to eight years inprisonment by the country’s Supreme Court for war crimes committed in …
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August 20, 2010 Eurasia News, Romania News
The foreign ministry in Moscow issued a statement Wednesday (August 18th) criticising Romania’s tit-for-tat move to expel a Russian diplomat. “We express a determined protest to the Romanian side, which has taken on
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August 20, 2010 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic on Wednesday (August 18th) asked EULEX to react after Pristina authorities banned his scheduled visit to Kosovo. Bogdanovic was supposed to visit on Thursday. He described the
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August 20, 2010 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
Interior Minister Bajram Rexhepi says Kosovo expects Brussels to outline the strategy the country must follow for eventual EU visa liberalisation next month. “Once we have the strategy we will be able to concretely
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August 20, 2010 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
IMF representatives and Serbian officials start technical talks Thursday (August 19th) within the fifth review under Serbia’s 2.9 billion-euro stand-by agreement with the Fund. Ahead of the talks, Serbia’s Finance Minister Diana
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August 18, 2010 Albania, Balkan News, Eurasia News, Macedonia
Macedonia — The ambassador of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Jose-Luis Herrero met Tuesday members on the commission for interethnic relations in Struga, Macedonian Kirilica news website reports. They discussed
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August 18, 2010 Eurasia News
The Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, Ambassador Philip Remler is rejecting as baseless accusations aired on a Moldovan television program that the OSCE is turning a blind eye to the 5 September constitutional referendum
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August 18, 2010 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Taci send a letter to Head of the International civil office of Kosovo government, saying that he won’t allow visits to Kosovo by Serbian delegation due to political provocations, Koha Ditore daily said.
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August 18, 2010 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Romania News
Romania hosted the meeting of Black Sea Countries’ Navy Commanders “BLACKSEAFOR”. “BLACKSEAFOR” Command has been transferred to the Romanian naval forces on a rotating basis.
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August 18, 2010 Balkan News, Eurasia News
Radovan Karadzic has called on the president of the Hague Tribunal to reverse decision to deny him contact with an Austrian journalist. Karadzic filed a motion on August 17 claiming the registrar of the Internationa Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, in The Hague had denied him contact with …
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