News archive of November 2016

Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Deputy Finance Minister Maxim Oreshkin as the new Minister of the Economy.

Oreshkin  is replacing Alexey Ulyukayev who was arrested on charges of corruption and fired due to losing the trust of the head of state.

The thought of eating bugs, faeces or blood doesn’t sound very enticing, but according to a team of scientists in Denmark, they are a few of the things we should eat if we want our food to be both sustainable and healthy.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will pay a working visit to the southern province of Antalya's Alanya district on Dec. 1 in his first visit after the normalization of Russian-Turkish ties following a crisis after a Russian warplane was shot down on Nov. 24, 2015, for allegedly violating Turkish airspace.

Serbia cannot extradite to the Hague Tribunal three members of Vojislav Seselj's SRS party who are wanted on contempt of court charges.

This is what Rasim Ljajic, president of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, has told RFE.

At first glance, Mashvisor is just one of thousands of websites specializing in U.S. real estate. But it has a unique feature, undetectable to customers: Its designers created it in the West Bank and it is run from the Israel-occupied Palestinian territory. 

Germany is confident that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will remain involved in Greece's bailout package, a finance ministry spokeswoman said on Wednesday, declining to speculate on the outcome of a Eurogroup meeting on Monday.

Bulgaria's State Social Insurance (SSI) will have at its disposal nearly BGN 10.4 B next year.

In spite of the fact that the texts were not supported by the budget commission on Tuesday, the management of Parliament decided that this is merely an opinion and submitted the text to a vote. The text was approved with the support of GERB, ABV, BDC and Ataka.

Authorities in Greece say they have picked up about 70 migrants, including children, found in a forested area on the outskirts of the northern city of Thessaloniki.

The party of outgoing Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has made a U-turn in its attitude to a possible new cabinet led by the nationalist Patriotic Front (PF) coalition.

GERB will not back any new government within the current legislature, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, who heads the conservative party's faction in Parliament, has explained.

Nazmiye Kocakulak, a writer who learned to read and write at the age of 62, suffered a brain hemorrhage while being interviewed live on private Turkish broadcaster TV8 on Nov. 30, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Kocakulak joined the show in Istanbul to talk about her newly released book on her life, titled "Alone."