Former Armenian Prime Minister Hrant Bagratyan called the extended 11 day New Year’s work holiday a “crazy luxury” that a poor country like Armenia can ill afford.
Former Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase has been sentenced to four years in prison for taking bribes. This is his second corruption-related sentencing, reports Radio Free Europe.
In a surprising political turnaround, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that he favors re-trials of hundreds of military officers convicted of a 2003 plot to overthrow the government, reports the BBC.
After Lithuania’s Baltic News Service offices were raided in November, the Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism examined “troubling questions on the safety of journalistic sources and how to respond to intimidation from the security services or government agents.” Links to their stories follow.
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