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Montenegro’s biggest industrial plant KAP to halt production amid surging electricity prices
Montenegrin power company EPCG plans to hike the price it charges for electricity from January in line with rising prices on international markets.
Kosovo clamps down over omicron fears
Pristina follows governments of Croatia and Slovenia in tightening border restrictions but also introduces stricter rules for people inside the country.
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Putin offers to start negotiations on a non-expansion of Nato to the east security deal
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on the West to start talks on a security deal and legal guarantees that would prevent Nato from expanding East.
Serbian government caps prices of basic foodstuffs as inflation soars
Prices of sugar, flour, sunflower oil and other basic foodstuffs to be frozen at November 15 level.
Last Iraqi Airline flights evacuate migrants from Belarus as crisis winds down
The last two Iraqi Airlines flights evacuated migrants from Belarus that had asked to go home, on November 29.
45.6% of Montenegrins think their country is going in the wrong direction
Just 31.9% of respondents said Montenegro is going in a good direction as many complained the government's priorities do not align with those of the population.
Employees of Croatia’s Rimac Automobili attacked by racists in Zagreb
Electric hypercar producer Rimac Automobili is one of the most successful Croatian companies and has an increasingly international workforce.
Russia, China slam selective invitations to US “Summit for Democracy,” call US hegemony in international politics “anti-democratic”
The foreign ministries of China and Russia have slammed the selective invites to a US-sponsored “Summit for Democracy” slated for December that saw countries like Poland and India invited, but some EU allies and Nato members excluded.
More details emerge of alleged coup plot in Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told journalists at a press conference in that Kyiv had information suggesting a coup d'état was being planned in the coming months involving the country’s top oligarch and Ukraine’s richest man Rinat Akhmetov.
Leader of winning coalition Petr Fiala appointed new Czech prime minister
Ceremony held under strict hygiene conditions behind a plexiglass wall after President Milos Zeman contracts COVID-19.
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Opposition parties in Kyrgyzstan reject preliminary results of parliamentary election
Central Election Commission accused of fraud with claims that votes were stolen during 40-minute malfunction of tabulation monitor.
Weekend of protests against mining projects and pollution in Serbia
Clashes with police as environmental activists protest against legal changes they say benefit foreign investors in polluting projects.
Bulgaria’s likely new ruling coalition to make relations with North Macedonia a priority
The progress of both North Macedonia and Albania towards EU accession is stalled because of Bulgaria’s veto on the start of accession negotiations with North Macedonia.
Russian billionaire Usmanov has been re-elected to a fourth term as the President of the International Fencing Federation
Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov has been re-elected to a fourth term as the President of the International Fencing Federation (FIE) during the body’s congress in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Concern mounts over new southern Africa coronavirus variant
The EU is planning a ban on travel from southern African countries after a new and highly infectious variant of the coronavirus virus was confirmed in Botswana and South Africa.
Romanian parliament backs new government after long political crisis
PSD and PNL put rivalries aside to form new government led by Nicolae Ciuca, ending lengthy political crisis.
Moldova disburses €70mn from state budget to pay gas bill to Gazprom
Russian gas major had threatened to switch off gas supplies to Moldova over unpaid gas bill.
63 dead in Siberian mine methane explosion tragedy
Over 63 miners died during a methane gas explosion in a Siberian mine on November 25. "According to preliminary information, no one is left alive in the mine," state news agency TASS
Croatia signs €999mn deal to buy 12 used Rafale fighter jets
Nato member Croatia signs deal to bolster its air defences after tender process was delayed by the pandemic.
Iranians cheered by collapse of lira flood over Turkish border for Black Friday shopping
With Iran’s rial typically suffering only bad news given US sanctions, day-trippers didn’t need telling twice to make journey to bag some bargains.
