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As Russia and the West enact tit-for-tat sanctions over Moscow’s annexation of Crimea, European leaders meeting in Brussels are discussing ways to reduce the continent’s dependence on Russian gas imports. […]
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says he has received official assurances that Russian troops massed near Ukraine have no plans to cross the border. A Pentagon spokesman said Hagel spoke […]
A major credit rating service has cut its outlook for Russia’s economy, saying Moscow’s conflict with the West over the annexation of Crimea threatens to weaken Russia’s already deteriorating performance. […]
The Russian police raid of a confections factory owned by Ukrainian candy mogul and EuroMaidan Revolution supporter Petro Poroshenko in Lipetsk on March 19 was officially conducted “to search for […]
Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico, who in the first round of presidential voting failed to carry anywhere near the vote count his Smer party did in the 2012 parliamentary elections, […]
When a Serbian party leader resigns it is a truly unusual, almost bizarre event. Serbian party leaders usually keep their positions at any price, despite their unpopularity or electoral defeats. […]
The Romanian Government approved on March 20 2014 the creation of a joint Romanian-Bulgarian project company, which will supervise the development of a new hydro-power station on the Danube, near […]
