Eurasia

MOSCOW – RUSSIA on Tuesday agreed to give $226 million dollars (114 million euros) of aid to two rebel regions of Georgia. Moscow will give 2.36 billion rubles (52 million euros) to Abkhazia and 2.8 billion rubles to South Ossetia. 

TBILISI, March 17 –Georgian authorities express protest against military exercises, underway in Abkhazia on March 17-18, Georgian State Minister for Reintegration Temuri Yakobashvili told reporters on Tuesday. “The presence of Abkhazian armed forces of such a high numerical strength in the administrative border area is alarming,” he said. 

According to Bulgaria’s Minister of Interior, Mihail Mikov, Sunday’s policemen protest in Sofia had gone over the line, BTA reports Tuesday. Mikov said that the Policemen who tore off their uniform shoulder pieces as an act of protest should be removed from law enforcement. This is an insult to every …

Foreigners will be allowed to work as experts in Bulgaria’s state administration or councilors under new legislative changes, the prime minister said. Sergey Stanishev was speaking at a meeting with the ambassadors of EU member states, who were invited to hear more about the government’s idea to further cooperation between …

Bulgaria is one of three EU member states that registered the highest 12-month inflation averages up to February 2009, the European Union announced Monday. The lowest 12-month averages up to February 2009 were registered in the Netherlands and Portugal (both 2.2%) and Germany (2.4%), and the highest in Latvia (14.1%), …

Serbia’s Ministry of Labour and Welfare intends to relocate 62 Roma families, that are currently living in an illegal settlement under the Gazela bridge in Belgrade, to the southern Serbian town of Vranje – despite protests from Vranje’s local authorities. The notice from the Ministry to Vranje’s major – which …

Protesters accused the forum of being a platform for water privatisation, and shouted `water for life, not for profit`. Turkish police fired teargas to disperse a group of about 100 protesters gathered at the start of a global water forum in Istanbul on Monday and detained 17, state-run news agency …

The Republic of Kosovo chief diplomat, Skender Hyseni, met with the President of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering, on Tuesday in Strasbourg whom he informed about the development and achievements in Kosovo since the declaration of independence last year. The Kosovar Foreign Minister Hyseni discussed with the President of the …

Sofia. For now National Movement for Stability and Progress /NMSP/ supports the existence of Bulgarian Energy Holding, but this is a temporary compromise, NMSP Deputy Chairman Milen Velchev answered to the question whether the party was in favor or against the existence of Bulgarian Energy Holding. Earlier on Monday at …

Sofia/Vilnius. President Georgi Parvanov is to pay a visit to Lithuania between March 16th and 18th 2009 at the invitation of President Valdas Adamkus. He is to meet with his Lithuanian counterpart, Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius and Seimas Speaker Arunas Valinskas.