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Montenegro’s ruling party leads in tinderbox polls
Podgorica (Montenegro) – Montenegro’s veteran premier Milo Djukanovic’s party was leading in Sunday’s tinderbox election during which authorities arrested 20 Serbs and accused them of planning attacks and hijacking the polls. Montenegro’s Prime Minister and leader of Democratic Party of Socialists Milo Djukanovic is the...
Pro-Russian rebel commander killed in Ukraine elevator bombing
DONETSK, Ukraine: A military chief of Ukraine’s pro-Russian rebels, Arseny Pavlov, was killed Sunday in a bomb attack in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, local authorities said, calling it a “declaration of war”. Russia, which annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014, backs a separatist, pro-Moscow insurgency in eastern...
Pro-Russian rebel commander killed in Ukraine elevator bombing
…read more Source: The Indian...
Russia’s Putin says progress needed before Berlin meeting on Ukraine
GOA, India – A planned round of talks between Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany in Berlin on the Ukrainian peace process will be possible only if experts make progress in dialogue, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday…. …read more Source:...
Germany’s Angela Merkel ready to confront Russia over Syrian war
Angela Merkel wants to get other European Union member countries to agree to step up sanctions against Russia because of its role in the war in Syria, a German newspaper cited sources close to the German chancellor as saying. The issue of sanctions is due to be discussed at an EU summit on Thursday and Friday. Both the EU and the US have already...
Montenegro votes as veteran PM warns of anti-Nato threat
PODGORICA, Montenegro Montenegro votes Sunday with opposition groups hoping to end the quarter-century rule of pro-Western premier Milo Djukanovic, who warns that his rivals would derail imminent Nato accession. Djukanovic, who led the small Balkan nation to independence from Serbia in 2006, has forged closer ties with Western countries, pursuing...
Wretched Syria
Superpowers’ chess board At the one-year anniversary of the Russian strikes, the State Department acknowledged that Russia had succeeded in its goal of propping up the Assad regime As the month started, US-Russia relations fell to a new post-Cold War low as the Obama administration abandoned efforts to cooperate with Moscow on ending the...
Russia envoy: Tensions with US are probably worst since 1973
United Nations, Oct 16 : Russia’s UN ambassador said that tensions with the United States are probably the worst since the 1973 Mideast war. But Vitaly Churkin said Friday that Cold War relations between the Soviet Union and the US more than 40 years ago were different than US-Russia relations today. “The general situation I think is pretty...
Turkish Stream’s building synchronized with Russia-Ukraine deal
Completion of the construction of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline through the Black Sea for Russian gas supplies to Turkey has been synchronized with the contract for gas transit through Ukraine that expires in Dec. 2019, RIA Novosti reported on October 15 citing Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak. …read more Source:...
Turkish Stream’s building synchronized with Russia-Ukraine deal
…read more Source: Today.Az
