by CBBSS | May 31, 2021 | Regional News
Macedonian PM Zoran Zaev said Skopje is very close to striking a final deal with Athens over the name dispute, and he pledged that Macedonia will hold a referendum on the issue in September or October, Balkan Insight reports. Zaev also said the name dispute solution...
by CBBSS | May 30, 2021 | Regional News
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) shocked the world Wednesday, trotting out dissident Russian journalist and Kremlin critic Arkady Babchenko to a press conference a day after Ukrainian authorities announced he had been killed by a gunman outside of his Kiev apartment....
by CBBSS | May 29, 2021 | Regional News
A week following Bulgarian President Rumen Radev’s meeting with Putin, Bulgarian PM Boyko Borissov will visit Russia Wednesday to likewise meet with Putin, Balkan Insight reports. With Sofia announcing plans to unfreeze the Belene Nuclear Power Plant project and...
by CBBSS | May 28, 2021 | Regional News
Mustafa Dzhemilev, the long-time leader of the Crimean Tatars and Ukraine’s envoy for Crimean Tatar affairs, said Moscow has relocated an estimated 850,000 to 1 million Russians to Crimea since annexing the peninsula, RFE/RL reports. Dzhemilev said Russia is...
by CBBSS | May 27, 2021 | Regional News
Erdogan pleaded with Turkish citizens to trade in euros and dollars for liras to prop up the plunging Turkish currency, Hurriyet Daily News reports. The lira fell to 4.92 to the dollar on Wednesday before an emergency rate hike by Turkey’s central bank helped...