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Kremlin Promises New Black Sea Fleet Base By 2016

Russia announced on Tuesday it would finish building a new base for its Black Sea fleet by 2016 to replace the historic Crimean Sevastopol port it has been ordered by Ukraine to evacuate. Sevastopol has been home to the Russian fleet for more than two centuries. With the 1991 collapse …

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New Political Deadlock in Bosnia

The caucus of Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) deputies in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity of Republika Srpska are boycotting the local parliament until they are granted equal voting rights. “It is logical that this will lead to the blockade of the work of the [Republika Srpska] institutions, but Bosniaks had no other choice,” …

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UN monitors to leave Georgia

The last remaining United Nations observers in Georgia leave their posts on Wednesday, a month after their mandate expired.The UN Security Council failed to extend the mission of the 130 observers last month, due to a Russian veto. Last August, Russia backed Abkhazia’s declaration of independence from Georgia. But no …

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New Bulgarian Parliament Swears in

The MP’s from Bulgaria’s recently elected new Parliament swore in at its first session on Tuesday. Six parties have entered Bulgaria’s top legislative body – Sofia Mayor Boyko Borisov’s center-right GERB, the Socialist-led Coalition for Bulgaria, the Movement for rights and Freedoms, the Blue Coalition, far right nationalists ATAKA and …

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Croatia pledges support to Macedonia

ZAGREB Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor has told Macedonian President Gjorgje Ivanov that Zagreb supports Skopje’s Euro-Atlantic integration. Kosor said that the deadlock in Croatia’s negotiating process with the European Union had negatively impacted on the countries of South-East Europe, according to a statement from the Croatian government.

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