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Bulgaria Never Made Commitments to Participate in Black Sea Flotilla
Bulgaria had never made commitments to participate in the establishment of a trilateral flotilla in the Black Sea or any other regional initiatives with Turkey and Romania. This was stated by Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov and Defence Minister Nikolay Nenchev in a joint briefing on Friday. Mitov and Nenchev spoke to journalists after a...
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[Ticker] Russia: Brexit unlikely to affect EU sanctions
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday that the UK vote to leave the EU is unlikely to impact Europe’s decision to prolong sanctions on Russia. The sanctions are to be renewed before 31 July pending parliamentary approval in France, Swede and the UK. “This [sanctions] process is discussed irrespective of Britain”, he told...
Bulgarian Foreign Minister, WJC Delegation Discuss Challenges to Regional, Global Security
Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov and visiting representatives of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) discussed challenges to regional and global security, the Foreign Ministry in Sofia announced in a statement on Thursday. The crisis in the Ukraine, the situation in the Black Sea region and the Middle East as well as the migration...
[Ticker] Solution to Dutch No vote on Ukraine ‘uncertain’ next week
Dutch foreign minister Bert Koenders said Thursday it is “uncertain” a “solution” to the Dutch rejection of the EU-Ukraine association agreement will be reached at next week’s EU summit because the UK referendum will dominate the agenda. Koenders told MPs his government wants to present a policy response “as...
Over 900 artists gather for Beraginya folk festival in Belarus
The event will open with a concert, We Welcome the Festival, in a park of the village of Oktyabrsky. Partaking in the concert will be foreign bands from Serbia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Lithuania and Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Small carrot, medium stick
AT last week’s St Petersburg International Economic Forum, Vladimir Putin’s flagship economic conference, a pair of guests raised Russia’s increasingly fervent hopes for a rapprochement with the European Union. Matteo Renzi, Italy’s prime minister, regaled the crowd with references to shared cultural history. The European...
Gazprom Plans to Further Increase Gas Exports to Non-CIS Countries
Gazprom plans to export at least 165 billion cubic meters of gas to non-CIS countries in 2016, the deputy chairman of the management board, Alexander Medvedev, has said. The Russian gas giant’s exports to non-CIS countrues had increased by 8% year-on-year in 2015, reaching 159.4 billion cubic meters, Medvedev said at an international...
Mogherini shakes up staff, mission
Following a couple of unexpected and high-profile departures from the EU’s fledgling diplomatic service, its ambitious chief, Federica Mogherini, has moved fast to put her stamp on the institution and articulate a clearer vision for it and Europe’s foreign policy. But the upheavals at the European External Action Service, a kind of EU...
Man could lose use of finger after being transferred between four hospitals before undergoing surgery
A Ukrainian man in his 40s is at risk of losing mobility in one of his fingers after being transferred between four hospitals in four days before finally being operated on. The work accident that ruptured one of his fingers’ tendons happened in Parchal, Lagoa on June 13. He was transferred between three hospitals in Portimão, Setúbal and...
Shocking video shows Ukrainian soldiers burying Russian alive (warning: disturbing images)
A horrific video allegedly showing soldiers burying a man alive has been posted online. It shows four men wearing camouflage uniforms and balaclavas throwing the man into an open grave. The man is clearly alive and his feet can be seen moving once he is lying in the ground. A voice can reportedly be heard in the background saying in Ukrainian:...
