by CBBSS | Jun 23, 2017 | Regional News
Russian elections officials have barred opposition leader Aleksei Navalny from running in the March 2018 presidential election, citing Navalny’s criminal conviction on a likely trumped-up embezzlement charge, RFE/RL reports. Read original... read more
by CBBSS | Jun 23, 2017 | Regional News
A Reuters investigation reveals major Western tech companies are allowing Russia’s FSB to inspect their source code in security products such as firewalls, anti-virus applications and software containing encryption. Moscow is demanding that western tech... read more
by CBBSS | Jun 23, 2017 | Regional News
Hurriyet Daily News reports Turkey plans to remove the “Origin of Life and Evolution” topic from high school biology classes, starting in 2019. Alpaslan Durmus, the head of Turkey’s curriculum board, said 9th grade students “are not endowed with... read more
by CBBSS | Jun 22, 2017 | Regional News
Germany’s parliament voted overwhelmingly to formally move German troops and planes out of Turkey’s Incirlik airbase and to an air base in Jordan, Deutsche Welle reports. The move is unprecedented as Berlin is shifting its troops from a NATO member state... read more
by CBBSS | Jun 22, 2017 | Regional News
Американското интернет списание Politico публикува анализ за новата роля на Николай Патрушев, руски хардлайнер и професионалист от КГБ на Балканите. Според Политико, Патрушев е конфидант на Путин и това значи, че антизападната и анти-НАТО агресивност на Москва в... read more
by CBBSS | Jun 22, 2017 | Regional News
The European edition of the American online magazine Politico features an article on the growing Russian anti-Western efforts in the Balkans, following a failed coup d’etat in Montenegro and that country’s NATO membership. According to it, KGB masterspy... read more
by CBBSS | Jun 21, 2017 | Regional News
The PSD, Romania’s ruling leftist party, ousted its prime minister on Wednesday, collapsing its cabinet just six months after forming a government, Reuters reports. PM Sorin Grindeanu stood accused of not advancing the party’s governing program. Grindeanu... read more
by CBBSS | Jun 21, 2017 | Regional News
As Turkey has slid into autocracy, Brussels has poured money into Turkey under the pretense that Ankara is progressing toward EU membership. Since 2007, Ankara has received approximately 1 billion euros from Brussels for developing “rule of law, civil society,... read more
by CBBSS | Jun 21, 2017 | Regional News
Following the spat over the U.S. shooting down a Syrian Army plane, an American aircraft shot own an armed, Iranian-made drone in Syria, RFE/RL reports. The incident occurred as Moscow was protesting Washington’s actions in Syria and threatening to shoot down... read more
by CBBSS | Jun 19, 2017 | Regional News
Арнолд Хуиген от Института Актон пише рецензия на новия и изключително скъп Музей на европейската история в Брюксел и намира, че ключа за разбиране откъде идват европейците и тяхната цивилизация – християнската религия – са прокудени от музея. А без... read more
by CBBSS | Jun 19, 2017 | Regional News
Arnold Huijgen from the Acton Institute reviews the new and hugely expensive museum of European History in Brussels and finds out that the key to understanding where Europeans and their civilization come from – Christianity -has been banned from the museum.... read more
by CBBSS | Jun 19, 2017 | Regional News
Forbes публикува аналитична статия за вероятните последствия от референдума за кюрдска независимост, обявен за 25 септември 2017 в Ербил. Освен огромните геополитически последствия за Ирак, Турция и целият регион, новата държава ще контролира 28.5 милиарда барела... read more
by CBBSS | Jun 19, 2017 | Regional News
Forbes publishes an article examining the repercussions of the announced Kurdish referendum on independence on Sept. 25, 2017. Apart from the huge geopolitical consequences for Iraq, Turkey and the entire Middle East, the new state would control 28.5 billion barrels... read more
by CBBSS | Jun 18, 2017 | Regional News
Romania’s ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD), which is swirling in corruption cases, filed a no-confidence motion in the parliament on Sunday against its own prime minister, Sorin Grindeanu, Reuters reports. It is believed PSD is trying to oust Grindeanu because... read more
by CBBSS | Jun 18, 2017 | Regional News
A total of 731 Turkish soldiers were hospitalized late Saturday after getting food poisoning at a military barracks in the western province of Manisa, Hurriyet Daily News reports. The incident was the second case of mass food poisoning at the same military barracks in... read more
by CBBSS | Jun 18, 2017 | Regional News
Berlin and Vienna have reacted angrily to the U.S. sanctions bill that passed the Senate this week, which if signed by President Trump, would enable Washington to impose sanctions on any company that made a significant investment in Russia’s planned Nord Stream... read more
by CBBSS | Jun 16, 2017 | Regional News
България е предоставила 1,3 милиарда евро (1,5 милиарда долара) в незаконна помощ за въглищни и други фосилни електроцентрали, според жалба, подадена в Европейската комисия от базираните в Лондон адвокати ClientEarth в четвъртък. Правилата на Европейския съюз за... read more
by CBBSS | Jun 16, 2017 | Regional News
A complaint filed with the European Commission alleges Bulgaria has given 1.3 billion euros of illegal aid to coal-fired and other power plants, Reuters reports. Climate lawyers behind the complaint allege Bulgaria is propping up its coal power plants by... read more
by CBBSS | Jun 16, 2017 | Regional News
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty съобщава за интервю за руска телевизия, в което председателят на Централната избирателна комисия Ела Памфилова заявява, че опозиционният лидер Алексей Навални “няма практически шанс да бъде регистриран” като кандидат –... read more
by CBBSS | Jun 16, 2017 | Regional News
Хиляди хора протестираха в Истанбул и Анкара в четвъртък, след като турски съд даде 25-годишна присъда на опозиционен депутат, съобщи Ройтерс. Енис Бербероглу от главната опозиционна Републиканска народна партия /CHP/ беше осъден по обвинения във военен шпионаж, за... read more
