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Romanian anti-corruption prosecutors seek green light to arrest former finance minister

March 20, 2015March 20, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

Romania’s Anti-Corruption Department (DNA) has sent the country’s prosecutor-general a report in which it asks the top magistrate to notify

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Europe 

Putin’s latest Crimea spin attempts new narrative

March 18, 2015 Mark Snowiss of VOANews Russia, Ukraine

As Russia marks the one-year anniversary of Crimea’s annexation from neighboring Ukraine, the Kremlin is putting forth a new narrative

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Europe 

Serbia arrests seven linked to Srebrenica massacre

March 18, 2015March 18, 2015 VOANews Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia

Serbian police have arrested seven people suspected of involvement in the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia, when 8000 Muslim

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Bulgarian, Austrian presidents back European integration of western Balkans

March 18, 2015March 18, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev and his Austrian counterpart and host in Vienna, Heinz Fischer, have stated the position shared by

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Europe 

U​krainian leaders travel abroad in search of political, financial and military support

March 18, 2015 The Kyiv Post Ukraine

Ukrainian authorities have made a new push this week to get international financial and political support, as well as weapons.

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Europe 

US, Germany vow new sanctions if Moscow fails to honour Ukraine cease-fire

March 17, 2015 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

The United States and Germany have vowed to continue punishing Russia with economic sanctions for its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean

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Europe 

Ukraine’s president presses Germany ahead of key EU summit

March 16, 2015 VOANews

Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko, seeking Western military aid to end a pro-Russian rebellion in his homeland, has arrived in Germany

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Europe 

Romania and Poland vow to join forces to beef up Nato’s Eastern flanks

March 13, 2015March 13, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Nato, Poland, Romania

Romanian president Klaus Iohannis and his host Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski agreed in a joint statement on March 12 that

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Europe 

Germany again warns against lethal weaponry for Ukraine

March 13, 2015 VOANews Ukraine

Germany’s top diplomat has warned against supplying Ukraine with lethal weaponry in its fight against pro-Russian separatists, saying such a

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