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Bulgaria’s Ruse Hosts Sand Festival Dedicated to Cinema
The Bulgarian city of Ruse hosts an international sand sculpture festival dedicated to cinema between June 9 and 20. A total of 613 tonnes of sand will be crafted into ten sculptures, each measuring two metres in height, daily Dnevnik reports. The sculptures will represent famous actors and fictional characters, such as Marilyn Monroe, Charlie...
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[Focus] Kiev pride: A test of EU values
Public opinion in Ukraine is becoming more tolerant, but violence at the Kiev pride shows the road to an open, European society remains long and dangerous. …read more Source:...
Pope Francis urged to take tougher stance against Vladimir Putin
US ambassador to Holy See says pontiff, who has taken a cautious approach to criticising Russia since Crimea annexation, should raise concernsPope Francis has been encouraged by a top American diplomat to take a tougher stance against Vladimir Putin when he meets the Russian president on Wednesday evening.The pope, a frequent critic of military...
2953 Foreigners Granted Bulgarian Citizenship Since Start of 2015
A total of 2953 foreign citizens were granted Bulgarian citizenship in the first five months of the year. Traditionally, the largest number of Bulgarian passports were granted to Macedonian citizens, daily Sega reports. Since the beginning of the year, 1174 Macedonians have been granted Bulgarian identity documents on the basis of their Bulgarian...
Eastern Europe enjoys oil-driven recovery
Region’s economies defy eurozone weakness and Ukraine crisis to power ahead …read more Source: Financial...
From Ukraine to the UK, academic freedom is under threat
The freedom to think, discuss and disagree is being eroded in institutions around the world. Turkish students protest their freedom of speech in Ankara (placards read “Universities belong to the students and they will be free with us”). Photo: Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images When Resat Baris Ünlü sat down to write an exam question for his students,...
Less than 30% of Ukrainians Approve Government Politics
Less than a third of Ukrainians have stated their support for the policies of the current government, according to a research conducted by Pew Research Center, quoted by Financial Times. Over a period of a year the number of Ukrainians that approve government politics has dropped by 15%. Surveys on public perception were conducted among 11,000...
Sanctions push central Europe’s armies further from Russia
BRATISLAVA/SOFIA (Reuters) – A European Union embargo on arms imports from Russia, imposed last year in response to a pro-Russian rebellion in Ukraine, is speeding the demise of central Europe’s remaining military ties to its former overlord. …read more Source:...
Jeb Bush: “Putin has changed”
BERLIN — To Jeb Bush, it’s clear that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “bully” who is waging a covert war in Ukraine and that NATO should not rule out putting ground troops in the Baltic states. So why, Bush was asked, did the Obama administration and others — like his brother, who famously said in 2001 that he’d gotten a sense...
Surikov: Belarus’ organizational role in Ukraine settlement welcomed by international community
The contact group was able to set up four working group that began to discuss certain topics, the ways out of the situation in keeping with the Minsk accords, and this is the undisputed success, Alexander Surikov noted. …read more Source:...
