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      Tillerson warns Russia to respect Ukraine commitments
      Feb16

      Tillerson warns Russia to respect Ukraine commitments

      Russia must respect its international commitments toward Ukraine, new U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Thursday during the first meeting between the two sides since Donald Trump took office. “As we search for new common ground we expect Russia to honor its commitment to the Minsk agreements and...

      Journalist images ‘don’t suggest more MH17 human remains’, says minister
      Feb16

      Journalist images ‘don’t suggest more MH17 human remains’, says minister

      Images and evidence collected in eastern Ukraine by a Dutch journalist who returned with a piece of bone from an… …read more Source:...

      Croatia, Albania ask NATO to revise Kosovo peacekeeping mission
      Feb16

      Croatia, Albania ask NATO to revise Kosovo peacekeeping mission

      The governments of Croatia and Albania asked NATO to revise plans for its peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, arguing that nationalist rhetoric by Serbian politicians threatens to destabilize the region, Reuters reported Thursday. In a letter to NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, Croatian Defense Minister Damir Krstičević and his Albanian...

      Bulgaria ‘Seeking South Stream Project Revival’
      Feb16

      Bulgaria ‘Seeking South Stream Project Revival’

      Bulgaria is seeking to take in part of the Ukrainian gas transit, the head of an influential private-sector engineering organization has said. With Russia considering a move to suspend gas transit via Ukraine, southern Europe and particularly Bulgaria would like to renew the South Stream gas pipeline project, Andrey Listovski, who heads the...

      Sashka Bratanova: Being on stage – that’s what I do, what I love and what makes me happy
      Feb16

      Sashka Bratanova: Being on stage – that’s what I do, what I love and what makes me happy

      “We, you and I” is a solo performance based on poems by Miryana Basheva and music by Stefan Dimitrov. Verses and music are skilfully interwoven in the plot of the play that actress Sashka Bratanova defines as music and poetry show. Here’s one of the songs that the actress performs in it – “Neka da e lyato” (Let it be...

      Ukrainian ambassador in BiH: Kosovo and Crimea are not the same
      Feb16

      Ukrainian ambassador in BiH: Kosovo and Crimea are not the same

      Ukraine’s outgoing Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina Oleksandr Levchenko says that “the meddling of Russian fingers” is “visible” Bosnia-Herzegovina. He also told Radio Free Europe in an interview that destabilizing this region is something that is in the interest of Russian President Vladimir Putin – “as he would later always arrive as a...

      Music for morale in Ukraine’s Avdiivka city
      Feb16

      Music for morale in Ukraine’s Avdiivka city

      In eastern Ukraine, the city of Avdiivka in Donetsk province has become the latest flashpoint in the conflict. The 16,000 inhabitants of the city have found themselves without water, electricity and gas in freezing weather conditions. But despite the sound of shelling, music is helping people carry on. Fililp Warwick has this report. …read...

      Bulgaria’s Defense Ministry Denies Having Signed MiG-29 Repair Contract
      Feb16

      Bulgaria’s Defense Ministry Denies Having Signed MiG-29 Repair Contract

      No fighter jet repair contract has been signed between Bulgaria and Russian aircraft company MiG over the past months, the Defense Ministry in Sofia has said. Its remarks follow reports by TASS news agency, which quoted the head of MiG as saying at an international defense expo that such a deal was sealed at the end of 2016 about aircraft in...

      MFA: Belarus will ensure smooth negotiation process on Ukraine in Minsk
      Feb16

      MFA: Belarus will ensure smooth negotiation process on Ukraine in Minsk

      A group of persons, with Russian passports and press cards of the public and political internet portal Russkaya Planeta, introduced themselves as representatives of The Other Russia party (unregistered in the Russian Federation) and made an attempt to disrupt the press conference of OSCE’s Ambassador in Minsk on 15 February. …read...

      How Britain can still count after it quits
      Feb16

      How Britain can still count after it quits

      Trump is indifferent to European strength; May is not, and cannot afford to be ©De Keerle/Sipa/Rex/Shutterstock In last year’s interview with the Atlantic, Barack Obama warned that a country that would “resort to nationalism as an organising principle” and that “never takes on the responsibilities of a country its size in maintaining the...