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FM once again receives Russian and EU diplomats

BELGRADE -- Russian Ambassador to Belgrade Aleksandr Chepurin has conveyed his country's position on the situation in Ukraine to Serbian Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkić.

Free Internet access will be available across Greece as of November through a network of up to 4,000 Wi-Fi points in closed and open public spaces, Transport and Networks Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis said Wednesday.

BELGRADE - The state of Serbia should protect the journalists against pressure, threats and violence, and the perpetrators of the crimes must be exposed and adequately punished, it was concluded at the Wednesday's conference "Who, what, where, when, how - Impunity of crimes against journalists".

Bulgaria's government will allocate additional BGN 15M to Irrigation Systems company from the budget of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.

The funding will prevent Irrigation Systems running out of power, and the risk of drainage coming to a halt across the country, as this could lead to flooding agricultural land, as well as towns and villages.

The Ankara administrative court overruled the ban on the social platform Twitter. 

The restriction contradicts the rule of law principles - the court motivated its decision.

The court decision comes a day after the UN urged Turkey to lift the ban on Twitter because the limitation of civil liberties contradicts the international law. 

Nearly 5 kilos of heroin seized from Portuguese man

GRADINA -- The Serbian border police have seized 4.9 kilograms of heroin at the Gradina crossing, on the border with Bulgaria.

The drugs were found in the luggage of a Portuguese citizen identified with his initials as R.S.G.A.

Washington, Brussels and Chisinau are the cities where celebrations of Eastern Europe’s 10th Anniversary in NATO will take place.

"No pressure from West over Crimea crisis"

BELGRADE -- Tomislav Nikolić has said he "supposes" there had been no pressure from the West on Serbia to change its position on Russia "because of the Crimea crisis."

Turkey will bring up the customs union deal for re-negotiation with the European Union by June, Turkey's Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci said.

“By June, we’re going to re-open for negotiation the Customs Union Agreement, to which no sovereign independent state should agree,” Zeybekci said at a meeting with Turkish businesspeople, quoted by Hurryiet Daily News. 

The government is expected to announce by Friday how it will share out the so-called “social dividend” from Greece’s 2013 primary surplus, sources have told Kathimerini.