Odessa

Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili spoke harshly for the British Independent daily about Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The current governor of the region of Odessa in Ukraine stressed that the Russian leader "plans to continue invasions of countries in Russia's vicinity."

A dismissed Ukrainian official has accused former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili of defending the interests of a Turkish firm, Do?an News Agency reported.

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov dismissed recent rumours about fifteen Bulgarian flags having been ripped in Kiev.

Mitov stated that the ministry will check the information, but he personally doubted that such an incident has taken place, he said in an interview for private bTV station on Wednesday.

A visit of Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov to Odessa Oblast in Ukraine has entered its second day.

Mitov is in Odessa on June 5-6. On Sunday he met Ukrainian counterpart Pavlo Klimkin, who visited Bulgaria in mid-February.

Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakavshvili has renounced his Georgian citizenship in favor of that of Ukraine.

Georgia has threatened to revoke pro-Western former president Mikheil Saakashvili's citizenship after he was granted a Ukrainian passport and appointed as governor of the strategic Odessa region.
 
Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili said Saakashvili's move, which according to the constitution, could lead to the loss of Georgian citizenship, "insulted our state."  

A brawl involving drunken students in the Ukrainian city of Odessa has ended in four people being injured after a Bulgarian opened fire on his colleagues, a Ukrainian news website reports.

According to 368.media, a Russian-language outlet, a scandal broke between two groups of students  at the Odessa I.I. Melchikov National University.

Öztürk Y?lmaz, the former Turkish consul general to Mosul, who was taken hostage last year along with 48 others by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants for 101 days, has been appointed as an ambassador to Tajikistan's capital of Dushanbe.

President attends naming of British residence ceremony

BELGRADE -- British Ambassador Denis Keefe hosted a reception on Thursday to mark the designation of the name of the British residence in Belgrade after Elsie Inglis.

The diplomat and Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic revealed a memorial plate bearing the Scottish doctor's name.

BELGRADE - Ambassador of Great Britain in Serbia Denis Keefe hosted a reception to mark the designation of the name of the British residence in Belgrade after Scottish doctor Elsie Inglis, and on this occasion he and Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic also revealed a memorial plate bearing Inglis' name.