Eurasia Press & News

Bosnia will use funds gained from its portion of the property of the Former Yugoslavia – amounting to some 90 million Euros – to fill depleted budgets and mount a fight against the worsening economic and social crisis. Economic experts over the weekend welcomed the decision of Bosnia’s state Fiscal …

Sherzai welcomes Obama’s bid to reach out to moderate Taliban elements and end bloodshed. A former warlord tipped to unseat Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan’s coming elections has backed President Barack Obama’s plans to negotiate with the Taliban. Gul Agha Sherzai was the first Afghan leader Mr Obama met when he …

Barack Obama has hinted that the US could talk to moderate elements of the Taliban as part of its strategy in Afghanistan. The US president’s words come ahead of a visit on Monday by Joe Biden, the US vice president, to Europe for consultations with America’s Nato allies on the …

The sermon will be broadcast on Ses on Sunday, the first time state television will have shown a religious address in Kurdish. A state-run mosque in southeastern Turkey held the country’s first official Kurdish-language sermon this weekend, part of the government’s efforts to boost rights for Kurds and meet European …

Many will be surprised how successful our intelligence services were in Serbian-Croatian spying war, a Serbian spy said. The priority of Serbian intelligence services is currently Kosovo, as well as collecting documents for a counter lawsuit before the International Court of Justice against Croatia.

The Sikorsky helicopter was travelling from Malatya in eastern Turkey to the capital Ankara when it went down in Kayseri province. Two Turkish soldiers were killed when their helicopter crashed in central Turkey on Saturday, the state-run Anatolian news agency said. The Sikorsky helicopter was travelling from Malatya in eastern …

In a nine-minute address he admitted that the global economic crisis had derailed many of his plans. President Dmitry Medvedev urged Russian on Saturday to keep “moving forward” in spite of economic hardship in a speech that marked his first full year in office. In a nine-minute address posted as …

MOSCOW, March 8 – Diplomats and hierarchs from Orthodox countries attended the Feast of Orthodoxy at the Savior Cathedral in Moscow on Sunday. The feast is celebrated on the first Sunday of Lent by the Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholics of the Byzantine Rite to commemorate the return of …

TSKHINVALI, Georgia: Six months after Russia and Georgia fought a war over South Ossetia, the enclave’s capital city is still a mass of fresh scars. Many people in Tskhinvali are shivering through the winter behind windows made of plastic sheeting. Piles of broken glass and trash – in one case, …

Vidin. The meeting between Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev and European Commission President Jose Manuel Durao Barroso should be held because there is a discussion at the European Parliament on the economy restoration plan of the European Union, MEP from the Party of European Socialists (PES) Marusiya Lyubcheva said.