Eurasia Press & News

Greece on Tuesday braced for a fourth general strike of the year against fresh austerity measures the government is imposing in order to keep receiving EU-IMF loans. Unions have called for a one-day national mobilisation against a new bill that

Russian President Vladimir Putin was on Sakhalin where he observed a part of the large-scale military exercise staged by the Russian military. It involves 160,000 troops and 5,000 tanks, and represents the

The political consultations were held between the Georgian and Cypriot Foreign Ministries in Batumi on Monday.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called for the results of Mali’s upcoming election to be respected even if the vote is “imperfect”, amid scepticism about the country’s ability to stage the poll.

Mark Gray, a spokesman for the European Commission, has stated that the upcoming oral Cooperation and Verification Mechanism report on Bulgaria will be factual and will not contain political assessments.

EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule will arrive on a two-day visit to Belgrade Wednesday. He will meet with Serbia’s senior officials to discuss Serbia’s

Egyptian Prime Minister-designate Hazem el-Beblawi met Monday with visiting US Deputy Secretary Bill Burns and US Ambassador Anne Patterson. They discussed the latest developments in Egypt and the implementation

Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili held the bilateral meetings within his working visit to Moldova. Saakashvili has already met with Moldovan president Nicolae Timofti and Prime Minister Yuri Lanke. The current political

Turkish President Abdullah Gül met with Egypt’s Ambassador to Ankara Abdel-Rahman Salaheddin on Monday. Commissioned by Egypt’s interim president Adly Mansour, Salaheddin and Gül discussed

Bulgarians kept on Sunday demanding early elections during the protests against Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski’s government.