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Speaker of the Deputies Chamber Valeriu Zgonea on Monday and Tuesday is going to participate in the International Forum dubbed 'Let my people live' to be held in the Czech Republic.

Photo credit: (c) Mihai POZIUMSCHI / AGERPRES PHOTO

Romania will be represented in this event by high officials of Parliament, the Government, delegates of the political parties and MEPs.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev is to visit the Czech Republic and Poland on Monday to take part in the Holocaust remembrance ceremonies there, his press office says.

Police in Azerbaijan have detained a dozen journalists working for US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty amid an ongoing crackdown on the outlet that Washington and rights groups decry.
      
The Baku offices of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty were sealed on Friday after prosecutors and armed police confiscated equipment and computers during a raid.        

The State Department is "deeply disturbed" by reports that prosecutors raided Azerbaijan’s local Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty office Dec. 26, a US official said, calling the motive for the episode "unclear."
 

BELGRADE - A group of younglings will organize a 12-hour marathon dubbed "The Improvathron" performing their adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare at the Children's Cultural Center (DKCB) Belgrade on Saturday.

BELGRADE - The chairman of the Serbian parliamentary committee on agriculture, forestry and water management Marijan Risticevic discussed in Belgrade on Wednesday with the owners of Prague-based Global Business Association the possibilities for the company's investments in water management and renewable energy sources in Serbia.

BELGRADE - Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka stated on Tuesday that the Belgrade meeting of the prime ministers of China and 16 countries from Central and Eastern Europe offers a chance to strengthen their cooperation.

The CIA declassified a letter Dec. 11 that suggests US intelligence had grave doubts about part of the case made by former president George W. Bush's White House to justify the war in Iraq.
      

BAKU - President of the Olympic Committee of Serbia (OKS) Vlade Divac was re-elected on Sunday as member of the Executive Board of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC), at the General Assembly of the European Olympic Committees (EOC) in Baku.

Thousands of Czechs have protested against Czech President Milos Zeman on the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, which ended communist rule.