The EU is for the first time sending border guards to help Greece stem an influx of migrants entering across the land border with Turkey. The Rapid Border Intervention Teams set up in 2007 “are activated today for the first time”, the European Commission said late on Sunday. The Commission …

Russia plans to add 18 new vessels to its Black Sea Fleet within the next decade after a landmark deal with Ukraine to extend the lease on the fleet’s base, a navy source was quoted by Interfax as saying on Monday. Ukraine agreed in April to extend the Russian fleet’s …

The Georgian side has once again fixed its interest in the OSCE mission’s return to Georgia at the OSCE summit in Vienna, Nino Kalandadze, Deputy Foreign Minister, said at a briefing today. She said that the ongoing