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The anti-corruption reform requiring high-ranking Ukrainian officials to declare their financial assets on the Internet brought to the surface the huge gap between the wealth of politicians and those whom they represent, reported Reuters.

There is no room for the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet in any of Croatia's 23 municipalities where Serbs constitute at least a third of the population.

The decision passed on Monday by the local administration in the municipality of Vukovar "sends a clear message - Serbs are not welcome: they best be assimilated, or move out," says Miodrag Linta.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic says he hopes the issue of the Sarengrad Ada will be solved "through talks."

This Danube River island is one of the border disputes that exist between Serbia and Croatia.

Greece is "irritated" by Serbia's position "regarding Kosovo and Macedonia," the Beta agency is quoting an article published on the SKAI website.

The Greek media outlet quoted unnamed "foreign ministry circles" who said that "Serbia lately made a series of incomprehensible moves, exerting pressure in the European Union to settle the (Macedonian) name issue."

"Serbia clearly and unequivocally condemns the horrible crime in Srebrenica," Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday.

He added that the Serbian government wants its people to live together with Bosniaks.

Macedonia's government is insisting that it is "business as usual" for Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski in spite of an ongoing deep political crisis in the country.

In the past week, when not participating in crisis talks with the opposition, Gruevski has made the most of opportunities to attend a series of high-profile promotional events.

The Serbian government will back the setting up of a regional commission that would determine the number of victims in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.

The Republika Srpska government and Russian officials are to start working on Monday on technical details of a loan which Moscow has pledged to provide to Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity, its President Milorad Dodik has told media. 

OSCE Chairperson Ivica Dacic met in Vienna on Tuesday with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin.

Dacic, who also serves as Serbian foreign minister, and Klimikin discussed the crisis "in and around Ukraine, the situation on the ground and the next steps for deescalation of the conflict in eastern Ukraine," said a statement issued by the Serbian Foreign Ministry.

EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn cancelled his visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo after leaders of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity of Republika Srpska refused to sign the action plan on reforms aimed to unblock EU integration and secure new funding from international financial institutions.