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      Russia will Provide Logistics for the Bulgarian MiG-29 until 2022
      Mar14

      Russia will Provide Logistics for the Bulgarian MiG-29 until 2022

      The Bulgarian Defense Ministry chose the Russian MiG Aircraft Corporation to provide the Air Force with the integrated logistics service for its 15 MiG-29 fighters for the next 48 months, Jane’s 360 reports. Bulgarian Defense Minister Krassimir Karakachanov signed the agreement on March 6 after talks with the Russian company ended on...

      Putin provocateur
      Mar13

      Putin provocateur

      Accusations of a chemical weapon attack — and a major diplomatic crisis just days before a presidential election — might give some world leaders pause for thought. Not Vladimir Putin. Faced with an ultimatum from Prime Minister Theresa May over an attempted assassination on British soil, the Russian strongman is making a show of just how strong...

      Manafort could face ‘rest of life in prison,’ judge says
      Mar13

      Manafort could face ‘rest of life in prison,’ judge says

      WASHINGTON — Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, runs a significant risk of spending the rest of his life in prison and the evidence against him by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office seems strong, a federal judge declared in an order made public on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III, who is based in Alexandria,...

      Need for a multi-dimensional approach to corruption in Ukraine
      Mar13

      Need for a multi-dimensional approach to corruption in Ukraine

      Demonising the president misses the mark; others must shoulder their share of blame …read more Source: Financial...

      How Russia Today divided Westminster
      Mar13

      How Russia Today divided Westminster

      British politicians of all parties have long appeared on the Kremlin channel, now called RT. So why is it only just catching up with them? For a television channel whose weekly reach is less than that of ITVBe +1, the profile of RT (formerly Russia Today) in the UK is conspicuously high. The £310,000 it spent on an advertising campaign on...

      There are more than 6 million Bulgarians living outside Bulgaria: Petar Haralampiev
      Mar13

      There are more than 6 million Bulgarians living outside Bulgaria: Petar Haralampiev

      There are an estimated 6 million Bulgarians and over, including children from mixed marriages, living outside Bulgaria, said in an interview for Trud newspaper Petar Haralampiev, chair of the State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad. There are Bulgarian communities in Northern Greece, in Albania there are 150,000 – 500,000 people of Bulgarian...

      New Eastern Partnership cooperation set-up launches
      Mar13

      New Eastern Partnership cooperation set-up launches

      A new institutional set up of the Eastern Partnership EaP initiative has been launched in Brussels in the presence of senior officials from Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Georgia the Republic of Moldova Ukraine and the EU Member States …read more Source:...

      Chairman Tariceanu after meeting B9 defence ministers: Defence policies need coordination, harmonisation
      Mar13

      Chairman Tariceanu after meeting B9 defence ministers: Defence policies need coordination, harmonisation

      Senate Chairman Calin Popescu-Tariceanu said on Tuesday that the meeting he had with defence ministers from the Bucharest 9 (B9) cooperation format dealt with defence and security issues, taking into account the “the challenges faced by NATO's eastern flank countries.” “The invasion of Crimea in 2014 has made Russia's...

      Putin blames ‘Jews and minorities’ for US election meddling
      Mar13

      Putin blames ‘Jews and minorities’ for US election meddling

      Credits Alexey Druzhinin/AFP/Getty Images Alt Text Vladimir Putin is set to be re-elected for a fourth term as president on Sunday Russian President says he ‘couldn’t care less’ if his citizens meddled in US vote One-Minute Read Tuesday, March 13, 2018 – 5:32am …read more Source: The...

      Ukraine’s National Militia: ‘We’re not neo-Nazis, we just want to make our country better’
      Mar13

      Ukraine’s National Militia: ‘We’re not neo-Nazis, we just want to make our country better’

      Ultranationalist group with neo-Nazi links says it has been driven to action by ‘impotent’ policeJust past midnight in a snow-covered forest near Kiev, four men dressed in black with truncheons strapped to their waists listen carefully for the telltale buzzing of chainsaws that belong to illegal loggers. “The police in our country are...