Eurasia

Black Sea Port Is Flash Point for Georgia and Russia

RUSIA Rising tensions between Russia and Georgia over shipping rights to a breakaway Georgian region have opened a potential new theater for conflict between the countries, a little more than a year after they went to war. Georgia’s coast guard has commandeered five merchant vessels from various countries this year …

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Violence flares in North Caucasus

RUSSIA Attacks in the volatile North Caucasus are the latest deadly episode in a wave of violence to hit the region. In Dagestan, Russian security forces killed four suspected Islamist rebels in heavy fighting as insurgents continue to challenge Kremlin rule. In the neighbouring republic of Chechnya, where Russia fought …

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Bulgaria’s Belene nuclear plant construction to cost 10 bln euros

BULGARIA Bulgarian Economy, Energy and Tourism Minister Traicho Traikov has announced that the construction of Belene Nuclear Power Plant will cost around EUR 10 billion (USD 14.6 billion), local media reported on Saturday. Traikov gave the example of Kozloduy nuclear power plant (NPP),stating that the same installations would be made …

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Despre unionism, cu calm (I)

„Nimic nu este nerezonabil, dacă este util.” (Tucidide) Mihai Ghimpu a spus-o. Şi imediat au început reacţiile publice, cele mai multe iritate, unele îngrijorate, altele sceptice. Să te declari român şi unionist – fie şi „privat” – este un gest care, la majoratul R. Moldova, şochează. Concluzia majoritară a fost …

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Uhapšeni prošao provjeru obavještajne službe

BiH Bojan Cvijan, djelatnik Državne agencije za istrage i zaštitu (SIPA), koji je nedavno uhapšen zbog povezanosti s kriminalnom grupom Darka Eleza, od maja prošle godine imao je pristup najpovjerljivijim podacima. Saglasnost za pristup tajnim podacima Cvijanu je dala Obavještajno-sigurnosna agencija BiH (OSA).

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Nepoznato ko će upravljati oduzetom imovinom

BiH The members of the Alliance for European Integration expressed their dissatisfaction with the fact that Vladimir Voronin did not announced his decision to resign as head of state in the Parliament. Izmjenama Krivičnog zakona BiH, kojima je omogućeno oduzimanje nezakonito stečene imovine, nije predviđeno i osnivanje posebne institucije zadužene …

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Filat: New Government may be formed already next week

MOLDOVA Liberal Democratic Party leader MP Vlad Filat, who has been authorized by the governing Alliance for European Integration to form a new Government as its would-be Premier, stated to Infotag this noon before going to parliament’s plenary sitting that the new Cabinet of Ministers may well be in place …

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Nominal and numerical makeup of parliamentary commissions fixed

MOLDOVA The Parliament Friday constituted nine permanent commissions, by one fewer than in the previous legislature. Four of the commissions will be headed by Communist MPs, while the other five by members of the Alliance for European Integration. The legal commission for appointments and immunities will be headed by the …

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Ghimpu appointed Moldova’s caretaker president

MOLDOVA Parliament speaker Mihai Ghimpu is to serve as Moldova’s ad interim president, under a decision adopted Friday by the legislature, following prolonged debates. The decision is to be submitted to the Constitutional Court for validation. Communist MP Vladimir Turcan suggested the adoption of the decision should be postponed until …

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