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European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has expressed concern about Russia’s new legislation which broadens the definition of treason. Ashton’s office issued a statement Thursday, saying that “the new […]
More Ukrainians are giving up the highly damaging smoking habit as legislation toughens bans on advertising, smoking in public places and introduces disturbing graphic warnings on cigarette packs. As of […]
Prime Minister Donald Tusk Wednesday said he has not accepted Sports Minister Joanna Mucha’s resignation over a fiasco that saw Poland’s World Cup qualifier against England postponed after heavy rain […]
The wave of deaths from methanol poisoning could have been avoided if successive Czech governments had not willfully ignored the warning signs, an investigative journalist has stated. Jana Lorencová, who […]
Ukrainian officials say foreign security agencies are responsible for the disappearance of a Russian opposition activist, who said he was kidnapped and forcibly taken to Moscow. An Interior Ministry spokesman […]
Reporters Without Borders said on October 24 2012 that it strongly condemns the proceedings that four banks have initiated through central Bulgarian National Bank against the news website Bivol.bg* after […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov ordered the Interior Ministry to fire Varna police spokesperson Kalinka Pencheva after she publicly called a man who had photographed police sleeping on duty a […]
Halloween has given rise to another tradition – that of releasing a new scary film every year around this time, when summer, a shadow of its former self, has started […]
