Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:11:00 GMT
You do not have to be a Soviet studies expert (or a post-Communist scholar) to know that the American missile defense shield will create a Russian backlash (as we have seen in Georgia).Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:38:00 GMT
The end of the confrontation with Georgia marks the opening of a new chapter in the fight for predominance in Eastern Europe: Ukraine. Like Georgia, Ukraine is a very vulnerable ally of the United States.Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:04:00 GMT
Between April and December 2007, the Home Office sent 1, 999 asylum seekers back to their original countries. Some of the Somali nationals were sent to Mogadishu, the most dangerous city in the world.Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:24:00 GMT
Until the next NATO meeting, in which the organization will celebrate its 60th anniversary, in 2009, many things are waiting to be realized by the Albanian government and parliament.Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:25:00 GMT
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the exodus of the "refugee children" from Aegean Macedonia, and for the first time ever, their demands have been endorsed by the Macedonian government.Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:12:00 GMT
Two Zimbabwean journalists from the state-owned Sunday Mail and Herald newspapers—Munyaradzi Huni and Caesar Zvayi—have been placed on the European Union's sanctions list.Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:33:00 GMT
Albania is an extremely bureaucratic state and its parliament a bureaucratic organization in which the chief bureaucrats resolve cases only when they want to, putting it at odds with Berisha's government.Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:50:00 GMT
The sight of one Hindu priest in orange cloths wandering along a path just behind a Saudi imam in white thobe just after the opening event provided all the symbolism that was needed.Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:14:00 GMT
Three years after Prime Minister Berisha ran on an anticorruption platform, his government has been accused of corruption more than any other government in Albania in the last 15 years.Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:13:00 GMT
The Balkans is safer than thought. This is the basic message from a recently published report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, a report whose arguments run counter to common wisdom.Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:18:00 GMT
Today, the Mediterranean is on the frontlines of a global struggle for peace and development. I would like to stress from the Greek point of view, the core challenge: ending the problem of Cyprus.Mon, 19 May 2008 23:12:00 GMT
Both Greece and Bulgaria stubbornly refuse to comply with decisions by the European Court of Human Rights to allow the registration of the political parties of their Macedonian minorities.Thu, 08 May 2008 23:46:00 GMT
That consultants enrich themselves from the generosity of donor nations undermines the whole point of foreign aid. It spreads cynicism among those in the field providing aid and among donor nations.Wed, 07 May 2008 23:31:00 GMT
The picture regarding the publication of Arab literature in English is dramatically changing, as was evident at the recent three-day London Book Fair, which took place last month.Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:10:00 GMT
It was a wise move for the A.K.P. to put European Union integration back on the top of Turkey's agenda after the case for its closure was taken up by the Constitutional Court.Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:48:00 GMT
Ahead of NATO's summit in Bucharest this week, one thing seems very clear to many in the Balkans: the United States continues to play a crucial role in the region's stability.Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:43:00 GMT
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President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has said that an unspecified number of Zimbabwean asylum seekers in Britain will be arrested and imprisoned when they are deported from that country.Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:55:00 GMT
Why did the West want to go through all this trouble only, according to some, to create a new zone of instability in the Balkans? Complex theories abound, but the truth (as usual) is quite simple.Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:54:00 GMT