March 4, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Montenegro
After the incumbent, Filip Vujanovic, launched his campaign late last week in Bar, his main rival, Miodrag Lekic will hold his first election convention in Niksic on Monday.Billboards that went up in the capital, Podgorica, on Friday, showing a smiling Vujanovic dressed casually in a beige sweater and white shirt, …
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March 4, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Croatia, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
Azerbaijani-Croatian ministerial consultations are underway in Zagreb. A delegation from the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry’s led
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March 4, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
Heavy fighting in northern Mali has left at least 50 rebel fighters and a French soldier dead, officials said Sunday, as Chad promised to prove its soldiers had killed two top Islamist militants. French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called for “caution” on Chad’s reports
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March 4, 2013 Eurasia, Eurasia News
British Foreign Secretary William Hague vowed continued support for Mali’s fight against Islamist militants as he visited the west African country on Monday, his ministry said. The Foreign Office said Hague had met with Mali’s president and prime minister as well as French-backed African
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March 4, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News
Over 50 people have gathered for tonight’s protest in the Bulgarian capital Sofia in Orlov Most (Eagles’ Bridge) crossroads. They have lit candles, brought flowers and photos of 36-year-old Plamen Goranov, who self-immolated in front of the
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March 4, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Serbia
The EU said Monday the latest round of talks it sponsors between Serbia and Kosovo, aimed at defusing tensions in one of Europe’s last trouble-spots, had made good progress and they would meet again later this month. EU foreign affairs head Catherine Ashton said a sixth series of talks she
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March 4, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Turkey
Turkish-Greek mutual trade, which reached $6.6 billion in ten years, promises even a larger potential, the prime ministers of the two neighbors believe. Turkey and Greece are set to foster their economic ties further, with both sides pleased at the state of their existing relationship, the prime
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March 4, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Turkey
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday urged his Greek counterpart to extend joint efforts to end a dispute over the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus which has been divided between a Turkish north and a Greek south since 1974.
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March 1, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News
Secretary of State John Kerry has congratulated Bulgaria on behalf of President Barack Obama and the people of the United States, on the occasion of its national day on March 3. In his address, published on the official website of the US Department of State, John Kerry states the following: …
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March 1, 2013 Balkan News, Balkans, Eurasia, Eurasia News, Romania
Romania will scale back renewable- power subsidies to limit electricity-price increases for consumers, according to the minister-delegate for energy. The eastern European country plans to make changes to its incentive program in July or at the beginning of next year, Constantin Nita said today in an interview in Bucharest. It …
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