Section: B92 (Serbia)
Dutch vote against EU’s treaty with Ukraine
Dmitry Medvedev says the Dutch rejection of the EU-Ukraine treaty on closer political and economic ties “shows Europe’s attitude to Ukraine’s political system.”The Russian prime minister’s reaction on Twitter on Thursday came after Dutch voters overwhelmingly rejected the EU-Ukraine free trade agreement in what AFP...
NATO chief identifies IS, and Russia, as “main challenges”
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the two main challenges faced by the western military alliance are “Islamic State and Russia.”Speaking for Voice of America’s Serbian service, Stoltenberg explained he was currently visiting Washington in order to discuss the upcoming NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland, that will consider...
Ex-police unit spokesman and Ukraine war volunteer arrested
Volunteer in the Ukrainian war Radomir Pocuca was arrested on Sunday during his illegal entry to Serbia, B92 learned unofficially. Criminal proceedings are under way against the former PTJ spokesman, while his name is also on a warrant. …read more Source:...
Ukraine “ready to buy” controversial overhaul MiGs
Ukraine supports the investigation launched in Croatia into the overhaul of a number of its MiG-21 jets in Ukraine.This was the reaction of Ukraine’s ambassador in Zagreb, Oleksandr Levchenko, who added he was “certain (Ukraine) would refute the scandal related to it.” …read more Source:...
Croatia suspects scam in MiG-21 overhaul deal with Ukraine
The Croatian military police are carrying out “a big investigation” concerning a deal that saw the country buy and overhaul MiG-21 jets in Ukraine.Zagreb-based Jutarnji List daily writes that “many irregularities” have been uncovered so far, while there is “serious suspicion” that “someone received...
Russians to stop shipping gas to Serbia via Ukraine in 2019
Serbia will definitely be left without Russian gas shipped through Ukraine in 2019, “and will by then have to find a way to get gas.”Director of Serbia’s state-owned gas enterprise Srbijagas Dusan Bajatovic said this during Friday’s regional Conference “Energy efficiency and perspectives”, organized by Color...
Poroshenko asks Ukraine’s prime minister to resign
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has asked the country’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to step down.Poroshenko on Tuesday issued a statement saying that Yatsenyuk’s cabinet had lost the support of the ruling coalition, but that Ukraine “has no time for elections.” …read more Source:...
3 Ukranian soldiers dead in renewed fighting
Three Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and seven more wounded on Tuesday in clashes between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian rebels.This has been announced by the authorities in Kiev. …read more Source:...
Protocol gaffe in Geneva turns Russian flag into “Serbian”
The Russian flag was hung upside down in the conference room in Zurich ahead of a meeting between the top Russian and U.S. diplomats, RT is reporting.Ahead of Sergei Lavrov and John Kerry’s meeting on Syria, the Middle East, and Ukraine, a cameraman noted that the Russian flag was displayed upside down. …read more Source:...
“Cost of EU-Russia sanctions reaches 75 billion last year”
Russia’s losses due to EU sanctions amounted to EUR 25 billion last year, First Deputy Minister of Economic Development Aleksei Likhachev said this week.Speaking at the 2016 Gaidar Forum conference, he said that EU’s estimated losses due to Russia’s countermeasures were EUR 50 billion in 2015, and EUR 40 billion the year before....
