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      NATO Coordination Center Opening Doors in Sofia
      Sep03

      NATO Coordination Center Opening Doors in Sofia

      A coordination center set up by NATO as part of its recent eastern redeployment is due to open on Thursday morning in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia.President Rosen Plevneliev is to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony alongside James Appathurai, NATO’s Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy. Last year...

      European autumn of unresolved issues: What awaits the Visegrad Four in the coming months?
      Sep03

      European autumn of unresolved issues: What awaits the Visegrad Four in the coming months?

      As summer is slowly winding down, European leaders – both in Brussels and national capitals – are going to be exposed to challenges, and find solutions for issues, which they had temporarily shelved until later. Some of these issues, notably the refugee crisis and the upcoming EU referendum in the UK are of a particular relevance to the region of...

      Talent from Tbilisi
      Sep03

      Talent from Tbilisi

      KIEV — Everyone calls her “Eka,” and not merely because “Ekaterine Zguladze” is a helluva mouthful. The diminutive reflects the popular esteem in which Eka is held, as well as a certain giddy affection for this 37-year-old Georgian — a slender woman from Tbilisi in a sea of stolid Slavic men — who is the deputy minister for internal affairs of...

      Ukraine reports polio outbreak in first Europe cases since 2010
      Sep02

      Ukraine reports polio outbreak in first Europe cases since 2010

      Two children in southwestern Ukraine paralysed by polio, the first outbreak of the disease in Europe since 2010, World Health Organisation says …read more Source: The...

      Kiev’s week of violence is a crisis of its own making | Andrey Kurkov
      Sep02

      Kiev’s week of violence is a crisis of its own making | Andrey Kurkov

      Theories abound about the violence that has flared again in Kiev. But despite profiting from it, Russia is very unlikely to have perpetrated itA “day of fury” was proclaimed on Monday by the Ukrainian nationalist party Svoboda (Freedom). The fury ended with a grenade being thrown into lines of soldiers guarding the Kiev parliament building, where...

      Polio in Ukraine: Two children paralysed as first cases of virus in Europe since 2010 recorded
      Sep02

      Polio in Ukraine: Two children paralysed as first cases of virus in Europe since 2010 recorded

      In the first outbreak of polio in Europe for half a decade, two children in Ukraine have been paralysed by the highly contagious disease. …read more Source: The...

      EU Ambassadors Agree to Extend Sanctions Against Russia over Ukraine Crisis
      Sep02

      EU Ambassadors Agree to Extend Sanctions Against Russia over Ukraine Crisis

      The European Union will extend sanctions against Russian and Ukrainian individuals and companies accused of backing pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine by six months, AFP and Interfax reported on Wednesday, citing diplomats. “There is a political agreement; (officials) agreed to extend the sanctions for six months to March next...

      Ukraine: Costs of conflict
      Sep02

      Ukraine: Costs of conflict

      A debt deal agreed with the IMF and creditors averted default but the war-torn country’s worries are far from over …read more Source: Financial...

      Poroshenko Blames Russia For Police Deaths
      Sep02

      Poroshenko Blames Russia For Police Deaths

      In an exclusive interview with Sky News, Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko accuses Russia of extending its “campaign of destabilisation”. …read more Source: Sky...

      Polio in two Ukrainian children first occurrence of disease in Europe since 2010
      Sep02

      Polio in two Ukrainian children first occurrence of disease in Europe since 2010

      WHO confirms that a child aged four years and another of 10 months are paralysed after contracting diseaseTwo children in Ukraine have been paralysed after contracting polio – the first time the disease has been seen in Europe since 2010.Confirming the cases in a child of four years and one aged 10 months in Zakarpatskaya oblast, south-western...