Balkan Press

The clock starts ticking on Monday toward a probable declaration of independence by Kosovo after extra-time negotiations failed to break a deadlock over the future of the breakaway Serbian province.

Today marks the official end of the four-month Kosovo status negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will submit a report given to him by the mediating Troika to the UN Security Council. The report on the Kosovo talks states that Belgrade and Pristina promised to …

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BELGRADE (Reuters) – The United States alone can choose whether the Balkans experience stability or lawlessness, Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said on Friday, after the failure of negotiations with Kosovo Albanians.

Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili held an emergency meeting of his security council Monday after the government charged that Russian helicopters had attacked a disputed gorge under Tbilisi’s control.

President Viktor Yushchenko ordered the firing of Ukraine’s top customs officials and the creation of a new counterintelligence department at the

Detaşat în câştigător, fostul lider paramilitar Hashim Thaci a vorbit deja despre o provincie suverană şi independentă după 10 decembrie. El ar putea deveni primul şef de guvern după secesiune.

On June 1 2007 the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office suspended the official inquiry into the “terrorist” attack on the Dubrovka theatre complex, during which Chechen guerrillas took hostage more than 900 spectators of the show “Nord-Ost”.

All wars are hell, but some hells are worse than others. If Arkady Babchenko is to be believed, Russian conscripts fighting their country’s long, shambolic war in Chechnya suffered more at the hands of their own people than those of the enemy.

The Commission for declassification of the secret services archives of Bulgaria has so far found 620 former communist secret service agents, member of the commission Ekaterina Boncheva said. The only institution where there were no members connected to