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Russian forces and Russian-backed Crimean “self-defence” units have moved against Ukrainian army bases in Crimea, following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula on March 18. The Ukrainian […]
Bulgaria’s cabinet consented on March 19 2014 to preparations to issue government securities on the international capital markets, a government medi ...
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial and Institute in Jerusalem, hosted on March 19 2014 a march of remembrance with dozens of Holocaust survivors to ma ...
A public opinion poll by the Centre for Information and Research (CIG) has declared Macedonian opposition presidential nominee, Stevo Pendarovski, a f ...
While tensions on the ground in Ukraine are rising almost daily, one area of potential conflict is eerily quiet. Ukraine and Russia are both widely considered computer hacking powerhouses, yet […]
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will leave for Moscow and Kyiv Wednesday, in a bid to help diplomatically resolve the crisis over the Crimean peninsula. From the United Nations,The Security Council […]
It is a frigid evening in Donetsk’s Lenin Square, but the cold has not deterred a small crowd from maintaining a weeks-long protest against the new Ukraine government in Kyiv. […]
Kidnappings, threats and assaults of Ukrainian activists and journalists have become the norm in Crimea since the Russian military invasion of the Black Sea peninsula on February 27. On March […]
The “radical Islam” trial in the Bulgarian town of Pazardzhik that began in September 2012 ended on March 19 2014 with one of the 13 accused sentenced to jail, suspended […]
Bulgaria’s State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (SEWRC) said on March 19 2014 that it had initiated the procedure to withdraw the operating licences of the country’s three power distribution […]
