April 22, 2009 Eurasia News, Kavkaz News
TBILISI, April 22 The Georgian opposition is beefing up its protests in the country’s capital as supporters began arriving on Wednesday in Tbilisi from other Georgian regions. Meanwhile, the opposition has erected around 140 wooden jail cells along Tbilisi’s central street to symbolize Georgia having turned into a police state. …
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April 22, 2009 Eurasia News, Romania News
Chisinau. Candidates for MPs in Moldavian Parliament from the three opposition parties took joint decision to abandon their Romanian citizenship, spokesman of Liberal Party Korina Fusu said, cited by Interfax. In her words this decision had been taken by all the 20 candidates from the three opposition parties for members …
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April 22, 2009 Balkan News, Eurasia News
MOSCOW, April 22 – Bulgarian Premier Sergei Stanishev will visit Moscow on April 27 and will meet with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the Russian premier’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters. He said, “Stanishev’s visit to Moscow is scheduled for April 27 to be used for discussion of bilateral …
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April 22, 2009 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
Twenty one states have sent their written declaration to the International Court of Justice, ICJ, favoring Kosovo’s independence, while thirteen remain in favor of Serbia. The ICJ announced that 35 states have sent their written declarations, (including Kosovo) on the topic of whether Kosovo’s declaration of independence announced in February …
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April 22, 2009 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Macedonia
Macedonia is cutting expenses and introducing a set of fresh measures to help its economy caught in the world economic downturn, the government said Tuesday. The announcement came late yesterday, of a nine percent cut in the state budget previously set at 2.5 billion euros. In addition, predictions released in …
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April 22, 2009 Balkan News, Eurasia News, Serbia
The mission of European Commission arrives in Belgrade today for talks with Serbian officials on a financial help package worth EUR 100 million. The financial support for the Serbian Budget will be provided for by the European Union’s Instrument for Pre-Accession assistance, or the so-called IPA funds. Serbian Government and …
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April 22, 2009 Balkan News, Bosnia Hertegovina, Eurasia News
A three-day planning conference started in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, on Tuesday, is preparing for NATO exercises which will be held in the country later this year. Alliance’s “Joint Endeavor 2009” military exercise will be held in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina in September later this year. This is not …
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April 22, 2009 Balkan News, Eurasia News
Head of EULEX, Yves de Kermabon has said that EULEX is able to ensure the safe visit of Serb politicians to Kosovo. “The escort can be managed by Kosovo’s Police or in case we consider this not to be enough we can help”, said Kermabon in an interview for Serbia’s …
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April 22, 2009 Albania, Balkan News, Eurasia News
A former senior adviser to the British government has defended military intervention in Kosovo, ten years later, defining it as a “just war”. David Clark, who once served as European Advisor at the UK’s Foreign Office between 1997 and 2001, argued that the conflict in Kosovo was “a response to …
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April 22, 2009 Albania, Balkan News, Macedonia
The provisions from the Ohrid Peace Accord are partial and need to be widened to provide greater rights to the ethnic Albanians, says Rufi Osmani, a controversial local ethnic Albanian leader. In an interview for the local Dnevnik daily this charismatic figure, who was re-elected as mayor of the western …
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