Centre-right government returned in Latvia
Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma’s three-party coalition looked set on Sunday to be returned as the Baltic nation’s next government.
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Month: October 2014
Bulgarian elections 2014: Arrests for vote-buying continue as voting begins
Police in Bulgaria announced further arrests for vote-buying as the country began voting in early parliamentary elections on October 5
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What’s On: Sofia Music Festival Yellow Brick Roads on October 10 and 11
Renowned jazz musicians from around South Eastern Europe and elsewhere on the continent will be in the Bulgarian capital city
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Bulgarian courts sentence two for vote-buying
Courts in two Bulgarian towns have handed down sentences for vote-buying, but in both cases the sentences were only probation.
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Memorial service for the dead of Gorni Lom as blast investigation continues
A Bulgarian Orthodox Church memorial service was held on October 4 in the village of Gorni Lom for the 15
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Ukraine’s Poroshenko to sign lustration bill, amendments possible
Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko said on October 3 that he would sign into law a bill introducing comprehensive lustration of
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US high ranking diplomat renews warning against corruption in Eastern Europe
Victoria Nuland, assistant US secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, has again criticised, in a speech held in
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Russia in mind, Latvia votes in parliamentary elections
Polling stations opened in Latvia on Saturday for parliamentary elections from which the current ruling center-right coalition under Prime Minister
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Khodorkovsky vows to give voice to ‘European-oriented’ Russians
Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been many things: a Communist Party youth group leader who became one of post-Soviet Russia’s first billionaires,
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