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After three days of violence that arose from protests over economic woes, Sarajevo and other cities were quiet but tense on February 8, as the troubled country cleaned up, counted […]
Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergei Stanishev has told his party comrades that the current government is working “increasingly successfully ...
This week’s events in Romania have confirmed politicians are readying themselves for the two election cycles in 2014 – European Parliament electio ...
Bulgaria’s centre-right former ruling party GERB has backtracked on a proposal to include in the new election code a provision for fines of up t ...
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has reiterated to Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovych the urgency of ending the political crisis in Ukraine through dialogue and the need to prevent further violence. […]
Andriy Parubiy, the security chief of EuroMaidan, instructed the protesters on February 7 to accept no objects from people they do not know, no matter how well-meaning they may seem. […]
Turkey this week took a step toward stifling critics and limiting free speech. Parliament passed a new law Wednesday which, if signed by President Abdullah Gül, will allow communication authorities to […]
Compared with Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 original, the new RoboCop does not only have better technology at its disposal but also launches a much more scathing attack on the politics of […]
Sochi may be sunny and the skies bright blue, but I feel as if the Olympics are in 1984. I walked into the Olympic Village train station and was confronted […]
