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Serbia begins final talks on Kosovo on Monday knowing it has failed to persuade a significant number of European Union member states to oppose independence for the breakaway province.

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

Мазут, вылившийся 11 ноября в результате кораблекрушения в воды Керченского пролива, уже ринулся в Черное море, сообщает РИА «Новости» со ссылкой на данные Росгидромета.

Europe’s main elections watchdog, the OSCE, has given up its mission to observe Russia’s parliamentary polls next month, citing a lack of co-operation from the Kremlin.

Serbia is warning the West ahead of a new round of talks on its breakaway Kosovo province that a declaration of independence by the Albanian majority would lead to new secessionist moves in the Balkans.

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”.

A sort of ‘two-party’ system will emerge from the December vote in Russia. But it won’t be even the docile two-party system envisioned under the Unified Russia-A Just Russia plan.

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.

Preşedintele Ucrainei, Victor Iuşcenko, a declarat că preşedintele României, Traian Băsescu, trebuie să viziteze Insula Şerpilor pentru a se documenta la faţa locului în ceea ce priveşte proiectele Ucrainei de