Tag: Vladimir Putin
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Latvia prime minister's New Unity party wins general election — early results
The centre-right New Unity party of Latvian Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš won Saturday’s election, according to provisional results, with its 19% of the vote putting him in a position to head another coalition government. The results – with 91% of districts counted – mean Latvia should remain a leading voice alongside its Baltic neighbours Lithuania…
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Night Wolves and praise for Putin mark Milorad Dodik's unconstitutional fête
Thousands of flag-waving ethnic Serbs gathered on the outskirts of the capital Sarajevo Monday to celebrate an unconstitutional holiday associated with Bosnia’s brutal war in the 1990s. A military-style parade was part of a series of festivities that the ethnic group’s separatist leader Milorad Dodik also used to profess his allegiance to Russia in what…