Serbia in UN bid to ward off Kosovo's secessionSERBIA AND Kosovo are engaged in a diplomatic battle over the status of the fledgling latter country, which is seeking wider …Sat Jul 31 2010 - 01:00
Czech spy scandal forces out generalsTHREE TOP Czech generals have been forced to leave the military after one of their aides was compromised by contact with a Russian…Wed Jul 28 2010 - 01:00
Bosnia's Serbs may seek to take lead from KosovoSUPPORTERS AND opponents of Kosovo’s independence have dug in their heels after the International Court of Justice ruled that…Sat Jul 24 2010 - 01:00
Ceausescus exhumed for DNA testsROMANIAN SCIENTISTS have exhumed the supposed bodies of executed dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, in an attempt…Thu Jul 22 2010 - 01:00
Ethnic Uzbeks suffering beatings and torture, says UNTHE UNITED Nations’ human rights chief says security forces are torturing, beating and illegally detaining ethnic Uzbeks in southern…Thu Jul 22 2010 - 01:00
Croatian visit to Serbia hailed as historicSERB PRESIDENT Boris Tadic has hailed a visit by Croat counterpart Ivo Josipovic as a historic step in reconciliation between…Tue Jul 20 2010 - 01:00
Killer of Russian activist 'identified'THE KILLER of prominent rights activist Natalya Estemirova has been identified and is the focus of an international hunt, Russian…Fri Jul 16 2010 - 01:00
Ukraine plans gas price hike to secure vital $14.9bn IMF loanUKRAINE’S GOVERNMENT plans to raise heavily subsidised gas prices to secure a vital loan from the International Monetary Fund…Thu Jul 15 2010 - 01:00
Tough cost-cutting reforms lie ahead for Czech RepublicCZECHS ARE braced for painful cost-cutting reforms after Petr Necas was appointed the country’s prime minister at the head of…Wed Jul 14 2010 - 01:00
Sociologist Iveta Radicova becomes Slovakia's first female prime ministerSOCIOLOGIST IVETA Radicova has become Slovakia’s first female prime minister, at the head of a broad centre-right coalition that…Fri Jul 09 2010 - 01:00
Battle to save city as Danube floodsEMERGENCY CREWS in Romania are battling to save the 300,000-strong city of Galati from inundation as the Danube river approaches…Thu Jul 08 2010 - 01:00
Ethnic tensions flare in Kosovo in wake of Mitrovica attacksTHE EUROPEAN Union has called for calm in Kosovo amid rising ethnic tension following two attacks in the flashpoint town of Mitrovica…Wed Jul 07 2010 - 01:00
US criticises 'occupation' of Georgia regions by RussiaTHE UNITED States has condemned Russia’s “occupation” of two breakaway regions of Georgia, and sought to allay fears that ex-…Tue Jul 06 2010 - 01:00
Uzbeks return home despite clashesTHOUSANDS OF Uzbeks have started returning to homes from which they fled when ethnic riots gripped southern Kyrgyzstan, despite…Wed Jun 23 2010 - 01:00
Up to 2,000 now feared dead in KyrgyzstanSOME 2,000 people may have been killed in Kyrgyzstan’s ethnic riots, interim president Roza Otunbayeva has admitted, as pressure…Sat Jun 19 2010 - 01:00
Bullish about Romania and opportunities thereWILD GEESE: John Aston, CEO AstonEco Management, RomaniaFri Jun 18 2010 - 01:00
Kyrgyz government will not drop pollKYRGYZSTAN’S EMBATTLED interim government insists that it will not postpone a referendum on a new constitution despite ethnic…Fri Jun 18 2010 - 01:00
Parties agree deal to force out Slovak PMSLOVAKIA’S POPULIST prime minister Robert Fico is set to be ousted despite winning last weekend’s general election, after four…Thu Jun 17 2010 - 01:00
100,000 Uzbeks have fled ethnic violenceINTERNATIONAL AID started arriving in Central Asia yesterday amid warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe among at least 100,000…Thu Jun 17 2010 - 01:00
Violence in Kyrgyzstan could spread, warn agenciesINTERNATIONAL RELIEF agencies are warning that a Central Asian “tinderbox” could be ignited by ethnic riots in Kyrgyzstan, which…Wed Jun 16 2010 - 01:00
Romanian PM survives vote of no confidenceROMANIA’S GOVERNMENT has narrowly survived a parliamentary no-confidence vote over plans to slash state pay and benefits, as …Wed Jun 16 2010 - 01:00
Kyrgyzstan violence prompts Uzbeks to seal borderUZBEKISTAN CLOSED its border with Kyrgyzstan yesterday after about 100,000 Uzbeks fled ethnic riots that have prompted a Russian…Tue Jun 15 2010 - 01:00
At least 37 killed and 500 injured during ethnic riots in KyrgyzstanETHNIC RIOTS have killed at least 37 people and injured more than 500 in Kyrgyzstan, despite calls for calm from major world …Sat Jun 12 2010 - 01:00
Bosnian Serbs get life sentence for Srebrenica atrocityTWO BOSNIAN Serbs have been sentenced to life imprisonment for committing genocide against Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in July…Fri Jun 11 2010 - 01:00
Slovakia's ruling party may lack allies after electionSLOVAKIA’S POPULIST government faces a fight for survival in Saturday’s general election after a divisive campaign dominated …Thu Jun 10 2010 - 01:00
Slovenia votes on sea border deal with CroatiaSLOVENIANS narrowly voted to approve a border arbitration deal with neighbouring Croatia in a referendum yesterday, clearing …Mon Jun 07 2010 - 01:00
Pilots ignored plane's warning systems attempting to landTHE PILOTS of a Polish jet that crashed in April killing president Lech Kaczynski and 95 others ignored the plane’s warning systems…Wed Jun 02 2010 - 01:00
Romanians strike over cuts to public sectorTENS OF thousands of Romanians went on strike yesterday to protest against the government’s attempt to slash public sector wages…Tue Jun 01 2010 - 01:00
Coalition talks start among Czech centre-right partiesTHREE CZECH centre-right parties have started coalition talks despite finishing behind the centre-left Social Democrats in the…Mon May 31 2010 - 01:00
Ukraine abandons 'unrealistic' Nato membership bidUKRAINE SHELVED its bid for Nato membership yesterday, as President Viktor Yanukovich came under fresh fire for loosening ties…Fri May 28 2010 - 01:00
Czechs face clear choice but poll too close to callCZECHS GO to the polls tomorrow to choose between a party that pledges to push through tough reforms to prevent possible financial…Thu May 27 2010 - 01:00
Mladic's relatives seek to have him declared deadTHE FAMILY of Serb war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic is seeking to have him officially declared dead, claiming that his ill health…Wed May 26 2010 - 01:00
Romanians demand cuts to satisfy IMF be scrappedTENS OF thousands of Romanians rallied in their capital Bucharest yesterday to demand the government scrap plans to slash wages…Thu May 20 2010 - 01:00
Passengers in cockpit before Polish leader's jet crashedINVESTIGATORS SAY two passengers were in the cockpit of the aircraft carrying Polish president Lech Kaczynski before it crashed…Thu May 20 2010 - 01:00
Romanian unions warn of Greek-style protests against budget cut plansROMANIANS RALLIED yesterday against government plans for swingeing budget cuts, as union bosses warned of huge “Greek-style” …Sat May 15 2010 - 01:00
Four killed as police in Macedonia stop truckload of armsMACEDONIAN POLICE shot dead four gunmen yesterday near the border with Kosovo amid a crackdown on arms smuggling and rising ethnic…Thu May 13 2010 - 01:00
3,000 Tymoshenko supporters in Kiev protestTHOUSANDS of Ukrainians faced off outside parliament in Kiev yesterday as the allegedly pro-Russian policies of new president…Wed May 12 2010 - 01:00
Mass grave of 250 Kosovo war victims found in SerbiaSERBIA HAS discovered a mass grave believed to contain the bodies of some 250 ethnic Albanians killed in the 1998-9 Kosovo war…Tue May 11 2010 - 01:00
Romania faces unrest over plan for 25% pay cuts in state sectorROMANIAN OPPOSITION parties and unions have pledged to protest over government plans to slash public sector wages and benefits…Sat May 08 2010 - 01:00
Ban on gay pride parade criticisedLITHUANIAN AUTHORITIES have come under fire for banning tomorrow’s planned gay pride march over fears that opponents of the event…Fri May 07 2010 - 01:00
Russia opens more Katyn files in gesture to PolandRUSSIA HAS granted full public access to once-secret files on the 1940 murder of 22,000 Polish officers by Soviet forces, just…Thu Apr 29 2010 - 01:00
MPs in Ukraine clash over deal with RussiaUKRAINIAN POLITICIANS hurled punches, smoke bombs and eggs around parliament yesterday, as a majority voted to allow Russia’s…Wed Apr 28 2010 - 01:00
Crew knew Polish flight was doomed, says officialCOCKPIT VOICE recordings have revealed that the crew of the Polish aircraft that crashed last Saturday, killing president Lech…Fri Apr 16 2010 - 01:00
Russia warns it may yet pull out of nuclear arms pactRUSSIA HAS warned that it could withdraw from a new nuclear arms reduction pact with the United States if it feels threatened…Wed Apr 07 2010 - 01:00
Anger on both sides as Bosnian Muslims and Serbs fault declaration on SrebrenicaBOTH BOSNIAN Muslims and Serb nationalists have sharply criticised a declaration by Serbia’s parliament condemning the 1995 Srebrenica…Thu Apr 01 2010 - 01:00
Politicians in Serbia divided over SrebrenicaLIBERALS AND nationalists in Serbia’s parliament were last night locked in debate over whether to ratify a declaration condemning…Wed Mar 31 2010 - 01:00
Rejecting safety of silence in corrupted RussiaBook of the Day: Nothing But The Truth: Selected Dispatches by Anna PolitkovskayaMon Mar 29 2010 - 01:00
Serbian parliament urged to drop vote on Srebrenica resolutionBOSNIAN SERB leaders have urged Serbia’s parliament not to pass a resolution condemning the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Muslim…Sat Mar 27 2010 - 00:00
US and Russia agree pact on nuclear arms reductionTHE UNITED States and Russia have agreed on a long awaited treaty to cut nuclear arms and their leaders will sign it in Prague…Sat Mar 27 2010 - 00:00
Former Czech PM withdraws from poll over remarksFORMER CZECH prime minister Mirek Topolanek has stepped down as his party’s top candidate for a May general election after making…Sat Mar 27 2010 - 00:00
