Eurasia Press & News

Students from universities in Sofia will protest in front of the Bulgarian Parliament as a sign of solidarity with their colleagues from Varna who protested yesterday against the brutal murder of Radostina Evtimova. ‘We as students from Sofia we owe solidarity to our colleagues from Varna in a time of …

A parliamentary body in the Maldives, consisted of top officials, will investigate allegations that the government received a $2 million bribe to recognise Kosovo’s independence. The National Security Committee of the parliament will look to see if there is any truth these allegations, which were first raised by the opposition …

Five years after ethnic Albanians attacked Serb enclaves in Kosovo in what became the worst single attack against Kosovo’s Serbs since just after the 1999 war, Pristina’s government said the events would go down as ”one of the darkest episodes” of the country’s recent history. “The tragic events of March …

The Defence of Jadranko Prlic has filed a motion with the Hague Tribunal, requesting temporary release of the indictee. Jadranko Prlic, a former official of the so-called Croatian community of Herzeg-Bosnia, who is on trial at The Hague, has asked the Court, via his legal representative, to be released from …

Politicians representing ethnic Albanians in south Serbia will join the work of the government’s Coordination Body for South Serbia in the next few days, Sima Gazikalovic, one of the vice-presidents of the institution, told Balkan Insight. Gazikalovic said that according to the negotiations, Albanians would get the position of deputy …

Several Orthodox Christian believers from Macedonia’s central town of Negotino, worried they would be committing a sin if they vote for Muslim candidate Imer Selmani in this Sunday’s presidential elections, have asked, and got the blessing to do so from their local priest. This unusual request came as the presidential …

Macedonia’s presidential election may fail due to the large number of citizens who are uninspired by any of the candidates and say that they are not inclined to vote, some analysts say. Days before the first round of voting on March 22 opinion polls show that there is a high …

The EU’s Rule of Law Mission to Kosovo, EULEX, has urged the country’s ministry of interior not to react to what the Prisitina’s authorities consider as provocation from Serb police until he has had the opportunity to try and resolve the issue. For the past year, Serb policemen working in …

Agim Ceku, Kosovo’s former prime minister and a former commander of Kosovo’s Liberation Army, KLA, told a Montenegrin TV that he did not know of any organised trade in human organs harvested from kidnapped Kosovo Serbs, referring to such claims as ”biased”. “These are such monstrous accusations that they deserve …

Macedonia’s Parliament Speaker TrajkoVeljanoski visited Belgrade on Tuesday, the first official visit by a Macedonian official to Serbia since Skopje’s decision in October 2008 to recognise Kosovo’s independence cast a shadow over bilateral relations between the two countries. After meeting Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic, Veljanovsko said the visit as …