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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Slovakia faces gas supplies halved
A fifty per cent drop in Russian natural gas deliveries on October 1 put the Slovakian government on alert with Prime
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Macedonia’s foreign debt in H1 2014 was 5.7 billion euro
Macedonian National Bank said on October 2 that foreign debt in the first six months of 2014 was 5.7 billion euro or 71.66
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October 26 parliamentary election puts Ukraine’s democracy to another test
Ukraine’s democracy is undergoing another stress test. After successfully holding a presidential election on May 25 even as Russia occupied
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Karadzic seeks acquittal on genocide at Hague tribunal
A lawyer representing former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic told the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia his client
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Russia cuts gas supplies to Romania while investigation hits Lukoil subsidiary
Romanian officials scrambled to assure Romanians there will not be any sort of problems concerning gas supplies over the winter
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Archaeology: The Caryatids were close to four metres high
The KH’ Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities is continuing its archaeological research in the tomb complex in the hill
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