Yesterday, a fugitive Moldovan oligarch and opposition party leader, currently living in Israel, had his sentenced doubled, in absentia, to 15 years for his role in nicking $1bn from one of Moldova’s banks when he […]
‘I do not think the Russian general staff is so naive as to think this is a definite long term alliance. There will naturally be mutual wariness’. (Alexander Gabuev, chair of the Rusia in the […]
The governments of Greece and (the former Yugoslav Republic of) Macedonia have at last reached agreement on their long-running dispute about the latter country’s name. There was a constructive meeting earlier in the year between […]
Renaming an airport On 24 January 2018 Prime Minister Zoran Zaev of Macedonia announced that the country’s main airport would be renamed. Such decisions only rarely have international implications, but the move took place after […]
