Vladimir Yakunin

Kathimerini met with Vladimir Yakunin, a doctor of political science and chairman of the Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute, in October at the Rhodes Forum, which has been taking place annually since 2002 under his leadership.

Moldova will host on Friday and Saturday a gathering of conservative, anti-gay and anti-abortion Christian groups called the World Congress of Families under the auspices of pro-Russian President Igor Dodon.

Also, the event has the support of the benefit fund of Igor Dodon`s wife, Galina Dodon, an NGO which allegedly conducts some political driven social campaigns.

President Igor Dodon announced on Monday evening that Moldova will host in September the annual meeting of the World Congress of Families, a US-based umbrella organisation of international groups supporting conservative social values.

"We are bringing together people around the world to discuss the beauty of the family," Dodon said.

The 13th annual World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations” will take place on the Greek island of Rhodes on October 8-11, 2015.

A flight between London and New York lasts about seven hours. But for adventure lovers everywhere, there may soon be a second choice: To drive there!

The meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Greek PM Alexis Tsipras in the Kremlin lasted about two hours.

Shortly after 13:30 EET, the Russian president received Alexis Tsipras with a warm handshake. Their meeting was concluded shortly before 16:00 pm EET.

BELGRADE - A laying of new tracks at the railway station in Belgrade's neighborhood of Krnjaca Monday marked the beginning of the reconstruction and modernization of a 15-kilometer railway from Belgrade to Pancevo in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic is on a two-day visit to Moscow, where she will meet with her Russian counterpart Maxim Sokolov to discuss modernization of the Serbian Railways.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said after the unveiling Thursday of a monument to Rušian and Serbian soldiers who died defending Belgrade in the Great War that the brotherhood between the Serbian and Rušian nations was sealed with a joint struggle for freedom.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic conferred with Russian Railways CEO Vladimir Yakunin on Wednesday and their talks covered an accelerated pace of realisation of the Russian loan for modernisation of the Serbian Railways.