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Krumm: Serbia needs to balance between EU, Russia

VIENNA - Serbia needs to balance between the EU and Russia, says Reinhard Krumm, head of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Regional Office for Cooperation and Security in Europe in Vienna.

"Serbia has the possibility to balance influence and opportunities to get the best for itself," Krumm told Tanjug and EuropeanWesternBalkans.com.

Tanjug file photo, M. Jelesijevic

Critically ill man airlifted from cruise ship off Corfu

A critically ill man has been airlifted from a cruise ship off the Ionian island of Corfu, the Athens-Macedonian news agency reports.

A Greek navy helicopter collected the 71-year-old tourist from the Bermuda-flagged Sea Princess cruise liner and transferred him to the island's airport where he was picked by an ambulance, according to the same report.

Samos: The Greek island of Hera and Pythagoras

On this luxuriantly green island on the northeastern edge of the Aegean, covered by pine forests, olive groves, citrus groves and vineyards, myth and history take on a special allure. This was the birthplace of the goddess Hera, Zeus’ wife; of Aristarchos, the celebrated astrophysicist who first expounded the theory of the earth’s rotation; and of the great mathematician Pythagoras.

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