Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will meet Thursday with his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko for talks on energy amid unease in Europe over possible cuts in gas supplies this winter. The two premiers are due to meet at the Livadia Palace in Yalta, the venue for the historic Yalta Conference …

Bulgaria will receive about BGN 180 mln “fresh money” under the PHARE program. This is what Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said. In his words-this is considerable political stimulus for the government.

Work to rebuild Russia’s Chechnya region, devastated by separatist wars from the 1990s, is now virtually complete, the region’s leader said at the lavish opening of a new shopping center in the capital.