Serbia to hold early elections
Serbia’s president has dissolved parliament and called for early elections, in an effort to garner more popular support for economic
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Month: January 2014
Troublesome BSP MP Angelov – unfriended, or friends with the whole world?
Strahil Angelov, the Bulgarian Socialist Party MP who caused uproar by visiting Syria and allegedly endorsing the Assad regime –
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Prosecutors in Bulgarian ‘radical Islam’ trial backtrack on charges
The “radical Islam” trial in the Bulgarian town of Pazardjik entered its final stage on January 29, with the prosecutors
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Bulgarian President vetoes amendments to drugs law
Bulgaria’s President Rossen Plevneliev said on January 29 that he vetoed amendments passed by Parliament earlier this month, which restricted
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Earthquake of 3.7 on Richter scale 27km from Bulgaria’s Plovdiv
An earthquake of 3.7 on the Richter scale was recorded at 7.04am on January 29 2014 about 11km from Perushtitsa
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Ukrainian parliament ponders amnesty for protesters
Ukraine’s parliament is considering on Wednesday an amnesty for scores of people arrested during the past two months of recent
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Bulgaria’s Reformist Bloc in talks on widening anti-government protests
Bulgaria’s opposition Reformist Bloc, a group of right-wing and centrist parties currently without representation in Parliament, has held talks with
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Ukraine protesters remain defiant after government resigns
Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovich has accepted the resignation of the government in a bid to quell violent anti-government protests that
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EU urges rights, democracy in Ukraine in summit with Russia
The European Union welcomed a rollback of repressive laws in Ukraine, part of the rapid concessions made by the Ukrainian
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