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Russian rescuers trawling the Black Sea on Dec. 28 found the second black box from a Syria-bound military plane that crashed at the weekend with 92 people on board, authorities said.  

"The second onboard recorder from the Tu-154 plane has been found and raised from the seabed," the Defense Ministry said in a statement to Russian news agencies.

Monday is a day of mourning in Russia in honour of the victims of the crash of a Russian military plane TU-154 in the Black Sea.

Bulgaria has refused to pay over 23,490 US dollars for 23,500 pages of the so-called "trophy archives" - archive material taken to the USSR by the Soviet army at the end of the Second World War, the Bulgarian news website Dnevnik reported on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Belgrade is especially proud to celebrate one of the most important events in our history, City Manager Goran Vesic said Thursday as the 72nd anniversary of Belgrade's liberation in WWII was marked with a memorial parade.

Critics of Moscow's 100 euro donation called a protest on Tuesday afternoon in front of Russian Embassy in Bucharest, claiming that the gesture was offensive.

"We considered ourselves offended, so we invite you to return the baksheesh in one cent coins," the organisers said in a statement on Facebook.

The statement accused Russia of owing Romania "several dozen tons of gold".

Threats to exhume the remains of Red Army soldiers who helped liberate the city of Kragujevac during WWII because of unpaid cemetery fees have angered Serbian war veterans.

The former house of Marxist revolutionary, theorist, Soviet politician and Red Army founder Leon Trotsky on Istanbul?s Büyükada Island is up for sale on a real estate website.  

“Albanians of .. Cameria” was the latest irredentist “pipedream” heard in the increasingly tense western Balkans this week, uttered by none other than an Albanian lawmaker who assumed a vice-speaker’s position in that country’s Parliament.

The phrase belongs to one Shpëtim Idrizi, listed as the president of the small nationalist Party for Justice, Integration and Unity.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US State Secretary John Kerry laid wreaths and exchanged gifts during their meeting on Tuesday.

The meeting between the Russian and US delegations in Sochi lasted for four hours, TASS news agency reports.

As Europe marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, Russia has honoured one of the last remaning survivors in Kosovo of the Partisan struggle.

The Kremlin has awarded Riste Stanojkovic, a 91-year-old war veteran, with the Commemorative Medal of Honor.