Kazakhstan

"Deep distrust between West and Russia"

BELGRADE -- There is deep distrust between the West and Russia and it will not disappear quickly, a panel discussion in Belgrade has heard.

KAZAN - Serbia's water polo team will compete in Group D with Montenegro, Australia and Japan at the World Championship this year, the draw decided on Thursday.

The remaining groups will gather:

Group A: Croatia, Brazil, Canada and China,

Group B: Greece, the U.S., Italy and Russia,

Group C: South Africa, Hungary, Argentina and Kazakhstan.

BELGRADE - The participants of an international conference titled Human Dignity, Freedom and Rights: Christian Dimension, held in Slovenia, have sent an appeal to Pristina city authorities to abandon a scheduled demolition of the temple of Christ the Savior in downtown Pristina.

Bulgaria has ranked second in an AIRINC report on taxation policies across the world, analyzed by the Wall Street Journal.

AIRINC's main activity involves analyzing data regarding cross-border transfers, including cost of living differences, housing costs, hardship allowances, per diems, and hypothetical taxes.

Turkey?s requests to remove content from Twitter increased by 156 percent in the second half of 2014, according to the microblogging site?s biannual transparency report.

Overall, Twitter said the total number of removal requests had increased by 84 percent from the previous period, while the total number of affected accounts increased by 348 percent.

Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova and Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov agreed to simplify tourist visa procedures for citizens of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, and Georgia.

The measure is aimed at boosting visitor numbers from traditional markets such as Russia and Ukraine, according to the press office of Bulgaria's Tourism Ministry.

Kazakhstan has been looking into the possibility of imposing embargo on certain Russian goods. Some imported products have experienced price a decrease as a result of the ruble devaluation over the past several months.

Turkey has yet to make an official application for membership of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), but it would be welcome to join, Kazakhstan?s ambassador to Turkey has said.

MELBOURNE - Serbian tennis player Nenad Zimonjic and Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi qualified for the Australian Open second round in men's doubles as they defeated Russia's Teymuraz Gabashvili and Kazakhstan's Mikhail Kukushkin in the Wednesday match, 6-7 (7-9), 6-4, 6-3.

Serbian students win 12 medals at science olympiad

BELGRADE -- Serbian high school students have won 12 medals at the 11th International Zhautykov Olympiad in Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science held in Kazakhstan.

They come from the Mathematical Grammar School in Belgrade and the Svetozar Markovic High School in Nis, southern Serbia.