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KOSOVO: Parallel Serb Administration Challenged
An Albanian group has filed a lawsuit against parallel structures set up to administer ethnic Serbs within Kosovo.GREECE: Violence Begins to Take Hold
A wave of violent attacks has been rocking Athens ever since the December 2008 riots that broke out after a policeman shot dead a 15-year-old boy.
KOSOVO: In Mitrovica, Ten Minutes Is a Long Drive
It was a bus ride from one part of the city to another. Or was it.
KOSOVO: Unsteady on its First Birthday
Young people took to the streets of Pristina well before midnight brought in the 17th of February and the first anniversary of Kosovo's declaration of independence. They yelled and danced, waving the Albanian and occasionally the U.S. flags.ECONOMY: Greece Melts More than Most
The financial meltdown has finally visited Greece. European Commission figures leave no space for political manoeuvring by the Greek government, the usual way to deal with EC control and counsel.
GREECE: Ask for Rights, Get Acid in the Face
Around midnight Dec. 22, Decheva Elena Kuneva, a Bulgarian living in Greece since 2001, finished her shift and made her way home. For four years she had worked as a cleaner in the city railways, as employee of a company contracted by the public enterprise.GREECE: Riots Fed by Years of Anger
It is late at night. The city is quiet and strangely empty. Only some spooky figures appear here and there, police in civilian clothes, photojournalists looking for telling pictures.ABKHAZIA: Troubled Region Prepares for Winter Olympics
The nomination of the Russian city Sochi to host the 2014 Winter Olympics is already affecting the sensitive geopolitical balance in the region.EUROPE-RIGHTS: Starving Because They Cannot Settle
Fifteen migrants woke up Friday to the 25th day of their hunger strike in Crete's second largest municipality Hania. They all have been living and working in Hania for a long time.
ABKHAZIA: Why This Is the Breakaway Republic
The Russian city of Adler, at the southern edge of the country on the Black sea coast, is the only gateway that has kept Abkhazia connected to the rest of the world during 16 years of isolation since the Abkhazian-Georgian war of 1992.GREECE: Refugees Kept At Sea
When the people of Patmos blocked a group of refugees landing on their island last Sunday, they raised questions about both refugees and about Greece that have not gone away.GREECE: Chinese Fur Unwraps a New Threat
Local people were heartened to see 30 Russian ladies getting off a bus last week in Kastoria, a little town up in the mountains 600km northwest of Athens. Kastoria is more popular with winter tourists.CORRUPTION: German Stink Spreads to Greece
The scandals around dealings by the German engineering giant Siemens have revealed a long chain of corruption plaguing Greek political life.GREECE: And What an 18th Birthday Gift
Eighteen years after their birth in Greece, children of immigrants are suddenly made migrants, and asked to prove their right to live in a country where they were born and raised.GREECE: Energy Deal Creates Nervousness
An agreement between Russia and Greece to cooperate in the construction of a part of the South Stream gas pipeline has been received with mixed feelings.RUSSIA: The Siberian Giant Is Waking Up
Ludmila Nikolovna, an ethnic Russian from Moldova, has no misgivings about her decision to come and study economics at Tomsk State University, even though she had to leave her two-month old daughter with her grandparents in Moscow.GREECE: Migrant Workers in Historic Strike
It was a day when migrant workers said they had had enough.KOSOVO: No Freedom from Corruption
The new government in Kosovo has failed so far to live up to its promise of fighting corruption.RIGHTS: EU Oversees Greece Failing Refugees
EU regulations are giving sanction to Greek government moves to deny rights to refugees. The principal European instrument used against refugees is the Dublin agreement under which the rights of an asylum seeker must be determined in the first member state that he or she enters.RIGHTS-BOSNIA: Lost Between Dead and Alive
"I'm still searching for my son, I don't know where he is, or how he was killed," says Kada Hotic. She does not believe he is still alive. "It is important for me to find his remains, and that he is buried with the dignity of a human being.BOSNIA: Kosovo Pushes Up New Ethnic Issues
Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence has provoked new divisions in Bosnia and Herzegovina over the past few weeks.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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