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As a spokesman for the TurkStream pipeline said Wednesday that construction of the Gazprom-backed project will start by the end of the month, diplomatic sources in Athens suggested the Greek government was concerned that Moscow was mulling alternative routes which could potentially exclude Greece from the plans.

Mira Markovic denies involvement in Curuvija's murder

Mirjana Markovic, the widow of former Serbian and Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic, says she did not take part in the murder of Slavko Curuvija.

The media earlier this week carried reports, quoting an official police note, accusing Markovic of "giving the order to kill Curuvija."

A foundation working under the name of Turkey?s prominent poet Naz?m Hikmet Ran has been evicted from its Istanbul office as a firm is expected build a shopping mall, with actors protesting the eviction on June 3, the anniversary of the poet?s death. 

OPEC is set to carry on pumping oil nearly flat-out for months more, content that last year's shock market therapy has revived moribund demand and knocked back growing competition. 

Bulgaria Air has released cheaper plane tickets to Germany's Dusseldorf and Russia's Moscow.

Starting June 1, the aircrafts headed from Sofia to Dusseldorf will have a limited number of seats available at a price of EUR 65 for a one way and EUR 130 for a roundtrip.

Direct flights to the German destination will be operated every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

European parliament head Martin Schulz on June 2 said he was limiting access to the institution to the Russian ambassador to the EU and one other diplomat in retaliation for a travel ban imposed by Moscow on 89 European citizens -- many of them Kremlin critics.

An underground road tunnel under the mouth of the Bosphorus is meters from being completed, according to officials and project managers. 

Istanbulites are hoping the 14.6-kilometer (9-mile) Eurasia Tunnel Project, linking Kazl?çe?me on Istanbul?s European side and the Asian side?s Göztepe, will reduce the city?s notorious traffic.

European Parliament President Martin Schulz has said he is to block access of Russia's envoy to the EU Vladimir Chizhov to his institution.

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico presented Tuesday in Moscow a gas pipeline project involving Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary.

Fico presented to his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev a new option for delivering Russian gas to Central and Eastern Europe, according to reports of the TASS news agency,

Serbian war crimes defendant Vojislav Seselj plans to re-activate his nationalist party in neighbouring Montenegro ahead of next year's parliamentary elections, the Serbian Radical Party announced on Monday.

The newly-elected leader of the Montenegrin party, Dusko Sekulic, said that it was ready to commit itself to strengthening of the branch in Montenegro.