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    Balkans and Black Sea in Focus of Massive US European Defender Military Exercise
    Feb10

    Balkans and Black Sea in Focus of Massive US European Defender Military Exercise

    The Army is concentrating this year’s major European Defender exercise on training for high-end warfare in the Balkans and the Black Sea, the service’s top general there said last week. Speaking at an online forum of the Association of the United States Army, Gen. Christopher Cavoli, commanding general of U.S. Army Europe and Africa...

    Problems turn apiculture from a traditional occupation into a hobby
    Feb10

    Problems turn apiculture from a traditional occupation into a hobby

    The number of Bulgarians who devote themselves to beekeeping has decreased recently, because apiculture in this country is in a deep crisis. On February 10, when we honor the memory of Great Martyr Charalambos the Wonder Worker who is regarded the patron saint of bees and apiarists, we are trying to get to the root of the problem. On one hand,...

    Brits facing coldest night of the winter with temperatures set to drop to -20C
    Feb10

    Brits facing coldest night of the winter with temperatures set to drop to -20C

    The Met Office has warned that weather in the UK may become colder than during the first Beast from the East over the next couple of days as freezing air blows in from Ukraine …read more Source::...

    Vaccination in Ukraine is About to Start: Top Leaders Discuss Fight against COVID-19 at Ukraine 30 Forum
    Feb09

    Vaccination in Ukraine is About to Start: Top Leaders Discuss Fight against COVID-19 at Ukraine 30 Forum

    The All-Ukrainian Forum ‘Ukraine 30. Coronavirus: Challenges and Responses’ began with addresses from Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenskyy. In this opening speech the President noted that this year was the 30th anniversary of Ukrainian independence, and that after 30 years the country has reached the point for “a long-term, substantial...

    [Ticker] Russia gas pipeline sees Bulgaria and Greece dump Ukraine
    Feb09

    [Ticker] Russia gas pipeline sees Bulgaria and Greece dump Ukraine

    Russia’s TurkStream pipeline with Turkey to south-east Europe, which began work in January, has seen Bulgaria and Greece get almost all their gas via the new route this year, instead of via Ukraine, as before, according to UK energy consultancy Platts. Bulgaria received some 6.4 billion cubic metres via Ukraine last year, and “almost...

    Josep Borrell: EU and Russia Willing to Develop Ties Despite Controversies
    Feb05

    Josep Borrell: EU and Russia Willing to Develop Ties Despite Controversies

    The European Union’s top diplomat Josep Borrell said during a visit to Moscow on Friday that the bloc’s ties with Russia were under “severe strain” following the arrest and imprisonment of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. “Our relationship is indeed in a difficult moment,” Borrell said at the start of talks with...

    EU Sends Foreign Policy Chief to Moscow as Tensions over Navalny Jail Sentence Mount
    Feb04

    EU Sends Foreign Policy Chief to Moscow as Tensions over Navalny Jail Sentence Mount

    European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell jets to Moscow on February 4 amid jailing of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and crackdown against protesters. According to the Moscow Times, Borrell’s visit marks the first to Russia by a tip EU envoy since 2017. His trip, however, has drawn criticism from some European capitals worried...

    Ukraine hit by tragic fire in hospital
    Feb04

    Ukraine hit by tragic fire in hospital

    In south-eastern Ukraine, a fire has taken place in an infectious disease care institution, killing four people, Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform reports. The post Ukraine hit by tragic fire in hospital appeared first on Baltic News Network – News from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia. …read more Source:: Baltic News...

    Why the Republican Party can’t – or won’t – dump Trump
    Feb03

    Why the Republican Party can’t – or won’t – dump Trump

    With all but five Republican senators voting to scrap his second impeachment trial, the former president’s grip on the GOP is stronger than ever. Donald Trump is out of the White House, but his power over the Republican Party appears to be intact. On 8 February Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial will start. The first time Trump...

    On the steppe
    Feb03

    On the steppe

    Torn between China and Russia, and haunted by the ghosts of its communist past, Kazakhstan has taken an authoritarian turn. Just before Christmas 2020, the Russian Duma passed a number of amendments tightening its notorious “Foreign Agent” law, which targets civil society groups receiving charitable funding from abroad. The label “foreign agent”...