Security

Greek authorities have started installing surveillance cameras at guard posts outside police precincts and other facilities feared to be possible terrorist targets, Kathimerini understands.

Russia has banned most food imports from the West in retaliation for sanctions over Ukraine, raising Turkey’s hopes of boosting its exports to the country, which will turn to alternative suppliers.

Whistleblower can stay in Russia for 3 more years

MOSCOW -- Former contractor of U.S. intelligence services Edward Snowden has been grated the right to stay in Russia for another three years, his lawyer has said.

Antoly Kucherina announced on Thursday in Moscow that his client received "residency rights in the territory of Russia for the next three years."

Turkey’s gold imports plummeted by 94 percent on a monthly basis to 1.45 tons due to Ramadan and geopolitical tensions in the Middle East that steeply curbed demand, according to new figures.

The country bought 24 tons of gold in June 2013 and 37 tons of gold in July last year, according to figures announced by the Borsa Istanbul Precious Metals and Diamond Market on Aug. 6

On the eve of the presidential elections, for the last three weeks, Turkey has been talking about an operation that has seen police officers place other police officers into custody.

The City of Athens is poised to create an electronic nerve center that will improve the municipality’s efficiency and even go as far as helping monitor public property.

A 49-year-old schoolteacher from Serres, northern Greece, who has been accused of sexually abusing one of his pupils was remanded in custody on Monday.

The teacher is accused of assaulting the girl, now aged 14, between the summer of 2011 and May this year.

He denies the charges but will be temporarily held at Sidirokastro police station.

BACKO GRADISTE - Over the past one hundred days, much has been done to demonstrate that the Serbian Ministry of Interior can be run differently, Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said on Sunday, noting that a large majority of the members of the police force are competent, responsible and honest people who want to fight corruption, crime and drug dealers.

Before talking about the new regulations about Turkey’s Telecommunication Authority (TİB), which are on the government’s agenda, let me mention different cases of abuses that we have witnessed as a society since the TİB was established in 2005.

Bulgaria's Interior Ministry Chief Secretary Svetlozar Lazarov will launch major police raids on the roads countrywide every Friday and Saturday night.

Starting next Friday, some 8,000 police officers will take part in the special police operation. They will inspect all vehicles, focusing on areas near drinking and entertainment establishments, Bulgarian Trud informs.