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After polls closed in Lithuania’s May 11 2014 presidential elections, incumbent Dalia Grybauskaite was widely seen as headed for a second term, the only question being whether she would face […]
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said that he would not appear before a special parliamentary committee set up to investigate his meeting with a ...
The Sofia Science Festival, held in the Bulgarian capital city from May 8 to 11 2014, drew thousands of visitors, according to figures released by co- ...
The Kyiv Post saw dozen of ballots inside of the polling station in downtown Luhansk saying ‘Yes’ to the sole question of referendum ̵ ...
Romania’s foreign ministry said that it had “taken note with surprise” that Russian deputy prime minister Dmitri Rogozin had tweeted that “Upon US request, Romania has closed its airspace for […]
South Stream, backstage dealings and diametrically varying views on the role of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms in Bulgarian politics were among issues on the minds of politicians as […]
Several months after it was promised and about 11 months after the Danube Bridge 2 was officially opened, international railway transport along the Vidin-Golentsi-Craiova route between Bulgaria and Romania began […]
Macedonia had surprisingly agreed to sign the 1999 good neighbourliness agreement with Bulgaria, daily Sega said, quoting statements by Bulgarian head of state Rossen Plevneliev and his counterpart in Skopje, […]
The two largest parties in Macedonia, VMRO-DPMNE and Democratic Union for Integration (BDI) announced on May 10 2014 an agreement on the formation of a new government. “VMRO-DPMNE and BDI, as the two […]
Hordes of rowdy pro-Russian separatists ruled the industrial port city of Mariupol in Ukraine’s restive east on May 10, a day after deadly clashes with the country’s military forces and […]
