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A 22-year-old German tourist was in coma after falling four storeys from the balcony of his hotel room in Bulgaria’s popular Black Sea summer resort of Sunny Beach. The tourist […]
President Milos Zeman tapped former Finance Minister and economist Jiri Rusnok June 25 as prime minister of a caretaker government, a move that will likely set the stage for early […]
Uncle Volodya went to Finland this week and told three fairy tales. – Gays have equal rights in Russia. – Russia’s new Foreign Agent law, which is killing Russian non-governmental […]
The dice has been cast as regards the liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant that the Cypriot government has decided to build in the Vassilikos area of the island’s south coast. […]
A day after Parliament’s sitting was scrapped over the lack of a quorum, Bulgarian lawmakers finally succeeded in holding a vote on June 27 to invest two new deputy prime […]
The European Union finance ministers have agreed to a draft deal establishing who will pay for bank bailouts in the future. The burden of bank rescues, under the new rules, […]
Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha has conceded defeat in general elections, ending three days of public silence and easing fears of a rough transition of power. Mr. Berisha conceded defeat […]
Bulgarian socialist party leader Sergei Stanishev gave the first hint on June 26 that the resignation of the Plamen Oresharski government – the main demand of anti-government protests now in […]
The consortium developing the Shah Deniz 2 gas field on Azerbaijan’s shelf in the Caspian Sea has picked the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) over Nabucco West to deliver gas to European […]
In what is seen as a major victory for the gay-rights movement, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the federal government may not restrict the definition of marriage to opposite-sex […]
