Ethnic groups in Russia

Incumbent Prime Minister Victor Ponta, running for president, said that President Traian Basescu and candidate Klaus Iohannis have a joint strategy, trying to repeat the 2009 and 2012 feat of winning power by gambling.

The leader of the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) Kelemen Hunor, running for president in the early November elections told a public debate in this central-western Romanian city late on Thursday that Romanians must accept their country is a multinational state and that trust is a pre-condition to a good relation between the ethnic groups.

Authorities on Wednesday went ahead with the contentious demolition of 12 uninhabited residences at a Roma camp in the northern Athenian suburb of Halandri but have postponed the relocation of dozens of residents to a new site west of the capital amid reactions.

Social Democratic Party (PSD) presidential candidate Victor Ponta on Saturday called all Romanians to join him in what will be the great union, stating there are 55 days until this becomes a reality.

Romanian language is one of the fundamental symbols of national unity, President Traian Basescu's message on the Romanian Language Day reads, as released on Sunday by the Presidential Administration.

The President underlined that Romanians' 'spiritual tradition proves, especially through the Romanian language, that we belong to a space of European civilization."

MOSCOW - Serbia will increase its cheese export to Russia in two weeks, Russian Minister of Agriculture Nikolay Fyodorov said after the meeting with his Serbian counterpart Snezana Bogosavljevic Boskovic in Moscow on Thursday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Snezana Boskovic-Bogosavljevic will meet with Russian Minister of Agriculture Nikolay Vasilyevich Fyodorov in Moscow on Thursday to discuss opportunities for increasing exports and placement of Serbian agricultural products to the Russian market.

Montenegro sees increase in tourists from Ukraine

Prime Minister Victor Ponta said in opening remarks to the Diaspora Estival (The Summer of the Diaspora) Programme in the Black Sea resort of Eforie Nord on Monday that the image of Romania in countries like Britain and Italy also depends on the Romanians who go there and on what they say about their country.

The Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, the year I started to work as a junior diplomatic reporter. Turkey recognized all the newly independent states. Delegations from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan started to come to Turkey  I would cover their visits. In many instances, either a Kazakh or a Kyrgyz would look at me and say I am probably from their lands.