No Latvia refuge for Moscow's ex-mayorLATVIA HAS bluntly rejected a request for residency from former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov and banned him from entering the Baltic…Thu Jan 20 2011 - 00:00
Pilots blamed for crash that killed Polish presidentRUSSIAN INVESTIGATORS have blamed a host of Polish failings for the air crash that killed the country’s president Lech Kaczynski…Thu Jan 13 2011 - 00:00
Pressure mounts for punitive reply to Belarus crackdownPRESSURE IS mounting within the European Union and United States for a political punishment to be imposed on Belarus’s President…Wed Jan 05 2011 - 00:00
Lukashenko rivals charged with causing unrestBELARUS HAS charged several of the politicians who ran against Alexander Lukashenko in this month’s disputed president election…Fri Dec 31 2010 - 00:00
Poland to forge links with Estonian catsESTONIA IS preparing to send several lynx to Poland to help boost its dwindling population of Europe’s largest cat.Thu Dec 30 2010 - 00:00
Moscow dismisses criticism of tycoon trialMOSCOW HAS chided the West for criticising the conviction of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest man, telling it to stop…Wed Dec 29 2010 - 00:00
Sanader awaits decision on extradition requestFORMER CROATIAN prime minister Ivo Sanader will spend the new year in detention in Austria awaiting a court decision on Zagreb…Wed Dec 29 2010 - 00:00
US criticises second conviction for Russian tycoonFORMER RUSSIAN oil billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been found guilty of money laundering and embezzlement in a case widely…Tue Dec 28 2010 - 00:00
Ex-minister arrested in Ukraine on abuse of office chargeA FORMER Ukrainian interior minister has been arrested in a dramatic operation by masked security service agentsTue Dec 28 2010 - 00:00
EU and US review Belarus relationsTHE EUROPEAN Union and the United States are reviewing their relationship with Belarus after the former Soviet state ignored …Fri Dec 24 2010 - 00:00
Balcony leap to protest at cutbacksROMANIA’S GOVERNMENT has survived a no-confidence vote that was disrupted by a man throwing himself off a balcony into the parliament…Fri Dec 24 2010 - 00:00
Hundreds jailed in crackdown over Belarus election dissentBELARUS HAS jailed about 600 people who protested against President Alexander Lukashenko’s election victory on Sunday, amid stern…Wed Dec 22 2010 - 00:00
Belarus poll clampdown criticised by WestBELARUS’S PRESIDENT Alexander Lukashenko has defied the West by rejecting widespread criticism of Sunday’s election, the violent…Tue Dec 21 2010 - 00:00
Former PM charged with funds misuseUKRAINIAN PROSECUTORS have charged former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko with misuse of state funds, in what she called a politically…Tue Dec 21 2010 - 00:00
Thousands protest in Minsk over election resultTHOUSANDS OF Belarusians massed last night in the centre of the capital, Minsk, to protest against an election that exit polls…Mon Dec 20 2010 - 00:00
Around the world's finest hotels to end up in St PetersburgWILDGEESE: EMIGRANT BUSINESS LEADERS ON OPPORTUNITIES ABROAD: Liam Madden, General manager, Kempinski Moika 22Fri Dec 10 2010 - 00:00
Medvedev urges Poland to open energy market to Russian firmsKREMLIN LEADER Dmitry Medvedev has called on Poland to open its energy market to Russian companies on the first day of a visit…Tue Dec 07 2010 - 00:00
Old divisions die hard as new Europe clings to ancient prejudicesBUDAPEST LETTER: Hard times in Central Europe mean it only takes the slightest scratch for historical wounds to gush anewThu Dec 02 2010 - 00:00
Medvedev warns of new arms race if missile deal failsRUSSIAN PRESIDENT Dmitry Medvedev has warned the West that a new arms race could result from failure to agree on a controversial…Wed Dec 01 2010 - 00:00
Moldovan election impasse could hamper EU membershipMOLDOVA’S PRO-WESTERN liberals appear to have failed to secure a big enough general election victory to break the political deadlock…Tue Nov 30 2010 - 00:00
Romania police chief sacked over alleged criminal linksROMANIA’S POLICE chief and a senior interior ministry official have been sacked over corruption scandals that have increased …Thu Nov 25 2010 - 00:00
Major protest in Kiev at tax lawTHOUSANDS OF Ukrainian businessmen protested yesterday against a new tax law that they say will destroy their livelihoods while…Tue Nov 23 2010 - 00:00
Migrant workers cheated and threatened by bosses go homeTHE CZECH authorities have helped almost 200 Romanian workers to return home after they clashed with bosses whom they accused…Tue Nov 09 2010 - 00:00
Serbia's president calls for reconciliation with CroatiaSERBIA’S president, Boris Tadic, has called for reconciliation with Croatia at the site of one of the most notorious massacres…Fri Nov 05 2010 - 00:00
'Obama of Piran' has no plans to seek higher electoral officeA GHANAIAN-BORN doctor has become the first black mayor in Europe’s former communist states, after ousting the incumbent in the…Tue Oct 26 2010 - 01:00
Serb leader blames mafia for soccer and anti-gay riotsSERBIA’S PRESIDENT Boris Tadic says mafia groups were behind far-right riots at a gay pride march in Belgrade and at an international…Tue Oct 19 2010 - 01:00
Toxic sludge no longer poses threat to Danube, says HungarySLUDGE RELEASED by a deadly industrial accident is no longer a danger to the river Danube, according to Hungary.Sat Oct 09 2010 - 01:00
Sludge killing fish in Danube while life in tributary 'extinguished'CAUSTIC RED sludge from an industrial plant in Hungary has started killing fish in the river Danube after wiping out all life…Fri Oct 08 2010 - 01:00
Simmering ethnic and fiscal tensions as Bosnia and Latvia go to pollsLATVIA AND Bosnia vote in general elections this weekend, but while the Baltic state will mirror the rest of the European Union…Fri Oct 01 2010 - 01:00
Tajikistan clashes raise fears central Asia could be new target for Islamist militantsDEADLY CLASHES in Tajikistan have raised fears that ex-Soviet central Asia could be a target for Islamist militants moving north…Fri Sept 24 2010 - 01:00
30,000 march in Prague protestTENS OF thousands of Czechs have marched through Prague in the biggest challenge yet to the new government’s plans to cut public…Wed Sept 22 2010 - 01:00
Exiled Chechen leader back in London after Polish rulingEXILED CHECHEN separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev has returned to London after Poland declined a request from Russia to extradite…Tue Sept 21 2010 - 01:00
Russia demands return of Chechen separatistRUSSIA IS demanding the extradition of an exiled Chechen separatist leader who has been detained in Poland on its request, straining…Sat Sept 18 2010 - 01:00
Anger over removal of cross erected to Polish presidentADMIRERS OF former Polish president Lech Kaczynski have denounced the removal of a cross that was erected outside Warsaw’s presidential…Fri Sept 17 2010 - 01:00
Nine injured in Kosovo clashesNINE PEOPLE have been injured in clashes between hundreds of Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo, just days after western powers hailed…Mon Sept 13 2010 - 01:00
Serbian acceptance of UN resolution on Kosovo applaudedMAJOR WESTERN states have hailed Serbia’s decision to accept a compromise United Nations resolution on Kosovo as an important…Sat Sept 11 2010 - 01:00
France and Romania plan to co-operate over RomaTHE EUROPEAN Parliament has condemned French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s deportation of hundreds of gypsies to their Balkan homelands…Fri Sept 10 2010 - 01:00
Independent investigation urged after Belarusian journalist found hangedINTERNATIONAL RIGHTS groups are demanding a full and open investigation into the death of opposition Belarusian journalist Oleg…Wed Sept 08 2010 - 01:00
Yanukovich takes over missing caseUKRAINIAN PRESIDENT Viktor Yanukovich has taken personal control of the investigation into the disappearance and suspected murder…Thu Aug 26 2010 - 01:00
Smuggled uranium seized in MoldovaTHREE PEOPLE have been arrested in Moldova for trying to sell 1Thu Aug 26 2010 - 01:00
Call for EU strategy on migration of RomaROMANIA HAS called for a European Union-wide strategy to deal with Roma migration, after raising concerns about France’s plan…Tue Aug 24 2010 - 01:00
Merry Cemetery set to music by Irish composerA new festival took the peasant poetry of the graves at Romania’s Merry Cemetery and put them to the music of Shaun DaveySat Aug 21 2010 - 01:00
Grain export ban may be extended to 2011, says PutinRUSSIA HAS again slashed its grain harvest forecast and warned that a suspension of exports could be extended into 2011, as it…Wed Aug 11 2010 - 01:00
Russia still burns as flash floods hit central EuropeCOUNTRIES IN central and eastern Europe are suffering contrasting weather woes, as Russia continues to fight crippling wildfires…Mon Aug 09 2010 - 01:00
Georgian president claims Russia set on ousting himGEORGIA’S PRESIDENT Mikheil Saakashvili has claimed that Russia is intent on ousting him and occupying his country, two years…Sat Aug 07 2010 - 01:00
Serb officials accused of sheltering MladicA SENIOR US diplomat has called for a crackdown on the Bosnian “support network” of war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic and accused…Thu Aug 05 2010 - 01:00
€900m set for Romania as spending cuts satisfies IMFROMANIA IS poised to receive the next €900 million tranche of a €20 billion loan after the International Monetary Fund gave a…Thu Aug 05 2010 - 01:00
Poland losing patience over Smolensk crash dataPOLAND HAS accused Russia of failing to hand over crucial evidence relating to the plane crash that killed Polish president Lech…Tue Aug 03 2010 - 01:00
Russia lines up €20bn state sell-off but history illuminates the dangersTWO DECADES after embarking on perhaps the most dramatic – and chaotic – privatisation drive in history, Russia is planning to…Mon Aug 02 2010 - 01:00
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
