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Russia Watch: Obama II downgrades relations with Russia’s Kremlin?

January 27, 2013January 28, 2013 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

Scenes from three weeks of watching US-Russia relations in New York, Washington and Moscow:  Kate, an old high school

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EU ambassador in Kyiv: Tymoshenko, Lutsenko among ‘biggest burdens’ for Ukraine

January 27, 2013January 28, 2013 Maryna Irkliyenko of the Kyiv Post

Jan Tombinski took up the post of European Union ambassador to Ukraine in September as Ukraine’s relations with the 27-nation

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Dave the Hero! Hungary’s Jobbik applauds EU referendum plan in UK

January 27, 2013January 28, 2013 The Budapest Times

British Prime Minister David Cameron may unwittingly have become a poster boy for Europe’s extreme right after promising a referendum

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Nato says missiles operational on Turkey-Syria border

January 27, 2013June 2, 2013 VOANews Nato, Syria

Nato says the first of six missile defense batteries sent to Turkey to intercept possible rockets fired from Syria is

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Davos World Economic Forum summit ends with new warnings on global economy

January 27, 2013June 2, 2013 VOANews IMF

International financial leaders have wrapped up the World Economic Forum meeting in Switzerland with warnings that much remains to be

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Honour for rescuers of Jews as International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2013 marked – but concern at anti-Semitism in Europe

January 26, 2013March 10, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

Those who risked their lives to save Jews and others from mass extermination in World War 2 are inspiration for

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National Geographic to air Smolensk crash documentary amid protests

January 26, 2013January 26, 2013 The Warsaw Voice

One of the episodes of the “Mayday” documentary series, to be shown on National Geographic Channel on January 27 2013,

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Europe News 

Social democrat former PM Miloš Zeman wins second round of Czech presidential elections, interim results show

January 26, 2013January 26, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Miloš Zeman, a social democrat former prime minister, was shown by interim results to have won the January 25 and

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Bulgaria Europe News 

EC refers Bulgaria to court for failing to transpose internal energy market rules

January 25, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Commission said on January 24 2013 that it was referring Bulgaria, Estonia and the United Kingdom to the

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