by CBBSS | Aug 31, 2021 | Regional News
Turkish prosecutors issued 35 arrests warrants and Turkish police detained nine journalists in the latest post-coup attempt crackdown, Hurriyet Daily News reports. Ankara accused the journalists of making propaganda for Fethullah Gulen. One of the journalists detained...
by CBBSS | Aug 31, 2021 | Regional News
Balkan Insight reports, so far in 2016, Serbia has been involved in 116 joint military activities with NATO and 90 bilateral exercises with U.S. troops, but only 17 with the Russian Army. Serbian media have often focused on Serbia’s military drills with Russia,...
by CBBSS | Aug 31, 2021 | Regional News
Gazprom officials are in Turkey Wednesday for talks about the supposed restart of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline project, EU Observer reports. At the moment, Gazprom is supposedly building the Nord Stream II pipeline to Germany, restarting the Turkish Stream project...
by CBBSS | Aug 31, 2021 | International News and Analysis
Suma Chakrabarti, the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, pens a post on the Financial Times blog discussing the progress made, challenges faced and future potential for the six Western Balkan states — Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia,...
by CBBSS | Aug 31, 2021 | Regional News
During a visit to Berlin Monday, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov said Turkmenistan is interested in making gas deliveries to the EU as soon as possible and talks on the issue have already begun in Brussels, Deutsche Welle reports. Both Russia and Turkey...