Soviet Union

Bosnian Serb parties are feuding over 35 million euros that Russia has offered to Republika Srpska, to clear its share of the foreign debt that Bosnia owed the old USSR.

The total debt Bosnia owes the Soviet Union is about 125.2 million US dollars [around 110 million euros].

While many international conferences in Turkey are being canceled due to recent terrorist attacks, the 19th Eurasian Economic Summit will go ahead as planned in Istanbul from April 5 to 7. In addition to terrorism and migration issues, climate change will also be debated by participants from a region rich in fossil fuels. 

While many Moldovans are seeking Romanian citizenship to gain entry to EU countries, Romania's former president, Traian Basescu, and his wife, have taken the opposite course and are seeking Moldovan citizenship.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on March 10 that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (ISIL) military commander was badly wounded but still alive, appearing to contradict U.S. officials who said he was "likely killed" in a U.S. air strike. 

Russia is accusing Turkey of helping jihadists recruit fighters from the Caucasus and Central Asia to fight in Syria, according to a letter sent to the UN Security Council.
 

A total failure: this is the current point we are at as far as the Syrian policy, based on the assumption that the Bashar al-Assad regime would be toppled in a matter of days when the turmoil started.

Let's recall: in those days, it was not enough for our rulers to be a regional power; we were about to take our place in the competition among global powers.

Pope Francis is under fire in Ukraine after his historic meeting with RussianOrthodox Patriarch Kirill, with the head of the country's Greek Catholic Church saying believers felt "betrayed".

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Montenegro's NATO membership decision was "artificial" - and one that will not add to the security of the alliance.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has warned Russia over the possible consequences of its moves in neighboring Syria, suggesting they might be about to become mired in the country as the Soviet Union did in Afghanistan in 1979.

Until Jan. 29, elementary military technology described a Russian Su-24 aircraft as a supersonic, all-weather bomber developed in the Soviet Union, and a Su-34 as a jet designed for tactical deployment against ground and naval targets on solo and group missions with counter-fire and electronic warfare counter-measures.