Eurasia Press & News

The government of the Serb-dominated Bosnian entity of Republika Srpska will put the prices of all basic products and key services under its control, its Premier Milorad Dodik said at the weekend. During his visit to northeastern town of Bijeljina over the weekend, Milorad Dodik said that despite the general …

KABUL – Forces with the U.S.-backed coalition killed a regional Taliban commander and eight others in an airstrike in western Afghanistan, the U.S. said Monday. The Sunday night attack destroyed the building housing Ghulam Dastagir and eight other militants in the village of Darya-ye-Morghab, near the Turkmenistan border, the U.S. …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai lashed out at mounting U.S. criticism on Sunday, saying he expected “better judgment” from the Obama administration. In the latest show of strain between the allies in a seven-year war against Islamist militants, Karzai told CNN President Barack Obama‘s description of the Kabul …

Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) — Iran is helping Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, said General David Petraeus, who is in charge of U.S. forces in the Central Asian nation and Iraq. “There is a willingness to provide some degree of assistance to make the life of those who are trying to help …

KABUL (AFP) – US President Barack Obama has accepted Kabul’s request to be part of a major review of US strategy in the “war on terror” in Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai and a US envoy said Sunday. Karzai said he asked Obama by letter for Afghanistan to have a role …

Interviu cu Dan DUNGACIU Săptămîna aceasta, la Bucureşti, se va lansa cartea Cine sîntem noi? Cronici de la Est de Vest de Dan Dungaciu, apărută la Editura Cartier. Dan Dungaciu este conferenţiar la Facultatea de Sociologie şi Asistenţă socială a Universităţii din Bucureşti. Volumul Cine sîntem noi? cuprinde analize detaliate …

Dan Dungaciu este unul dintre cei mai buni cunoscători ai peisajului politic şi social din Republica Moldova. Pentru Cotidianul, desenează liniile de forţă ale peisajului politic actual de la Chişinău. De altfel, recent, la Editura Cartier din capitala Republicii Moldova a apărut ultima carte dedicată vecinilor de peste Prut ai …

„Nu te întrista, o să te îmbolnăveşti; după noi – potopul!”   (Madame de Pompadour către Ludovic al XV-lea)    Dan Dungaciu     d.dungaciu@gmail.com SUA rămâne singura putere mondială a lumii cel puţin pentru motivul că nu există o altă ţară a cărei criză internă să pună planeta pe butuci. …

ALI MARDAN, Afghanistan, Feb 14 (Reuters) – The foreign warplanes swooped in just as the Afghan village of Ali Mardan was celebrating a wedding. Bombs slammed into the crowded village square, killing 30 men, women and children. After the smoke cleared and the dead were buried, all the able-bodied men …

MOSCOW – Twenty years after Red Army troops pulled out of Afghanistan, the last general to command them says the Soviets‘ devastating experience is a dismal omen for U.S. plans to build up troops there. On Friday, the anniversary of the Soviet departure from the Afghan capital, the Russian parliament’s …