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Russia plans to sue Ukraine in an English court to recover a multibillion-dollar loan Moscow made to Kyiv in December 2013, just weeks before Ukraine’s then-President, Viktor Yanukovych, facing a […]
Greek former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has announced, in an interview with Italian magazine L’ Espresso, to be published on December 24 ...
In 2018 the new modern Belgrade-Budapest railway will be operational, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on December 23. “This is very imp ...
Turkey has stepped up its criticism of Russia’s airstrikes in Syria in the wake of deadly strikes in the northwest city of Idlib. Turkish Prime ...
A Russian court has issued an international arrest warrant for Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former Yukos Oil chief and critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russian police accuse Khodorkovsky, who is now […]
Just 37 per cent of Bulgarians are in favour of the euro, a drop of six percentage points in recent months, with 49 per cent opposing the European single currency, […]
Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court has rejected a court action challenging the proceedings by which the Cabinet awarded ownership of Sofia’s landmark Alexander Nevsky cathedral to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, ruling [&hel ...
A ban on the movement of heavy vehicles on motorways and main roads came into effect on December 23 in Bulgaria as the country prepared for intense traffic ahead of […]
Greece’s Parliament has passed landmark legislation allowing civil partnership agreements between same-sex couples, despite strong resistance from opposition parties and the powerful Orthodox Church. The law, passed early Wednesday by ...
Ahmed Dogan, founder of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms – the party led and supported in the main by Bulgarians of Turkish ethnicity – has caused a stir of […]
