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The world's most popular cryptocurrency continues to set historic highs this week. Bitcoin cracked the $1500 barrier on Thursday.

Bitcoin was trading at $1,515 against the US dollar at 2:00pm GMT, retreating from the day's high of $1,544.43, according to the CoinDesk price index. The digital currency has gained more than 32 percent during the past two weeks.

According to a recent Gallop survey, some 22 per cent of Americans now say they have a favourable opinion of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Although his unfavourable rating is still far higher, at 72 per cent, the number of Americans who view Putin positively is the highest since 2003.

Ukraine's outgoing Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina Oleksandr Levchenko says that "the meddling of Russian fingers" is "visible" Bosnia-Herzegovina.

He also told Radio Free Europe in an interview that destabilizing this region is something that is in the interest of Russian President Vladimir Putin - "as he would later always arrive as a peacemaker."

Ukraine's outgoing Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina Oleksandr Levchenko says that "the meddling of Russian fingers" is "visible" Bosnia-Herzegovina.

He also told Radio Free Europe in an interview that destabilizing this region is something that is in the interest of Russian President Vladimir Putin - "as he would later always arrive as a peacemaker."

If BSP governs Bulgaria after these elections, Bulgaria will be the first country in the European Union which will "categorically" raise the issue of lifting the sanctions against Russia, stated BSP leader Korneliya Ninova in an interview for BNT.

Russia is "ready" to finance in full the expansion of Hungary's only nuclear plant, Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Feb. 2 in Budapest.

The original agreement signed between Hungary and Russia's Rosatom in 2014 involved an 80-percent loan of 10-billion-euro ($11-billion) from Moscow.

Serbian right-wing activist Misa Vacic faces charges over alleged threats he made to Jelena Pajovic van Reenen - an activist from Civil Society House Foundation - on Facebook in a dispute over a mural that had appeared in Belgrade.

She filed the charges against Vacic on December 12 on the grounds of danger to her personal safety against Vacic.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoke on Thursday over the telephone with Russian President Vladimir Putin to express his condolences over the fatal Black Sea plane crash and the assassination earlier this month of Moscow's ambassador to Ankara.

Vladimir Putin expressed his anger over the murder of the Russian ambassador in Turkey yesterday in his speech to the employees of the Russian security organizations.

Actually, this question should be rephrased as, "Would the EU make a strategic enemy and Putin a sound friend?" Well, let's go further and question whether or not they would make you say, "Putin's Russia is more trustworthy than the EU?"