Georgia rejects Kosovo precedent for its separatist regions

Georgia’s President Mikhail Saakashvili on Monday rejected Russian comparisons between Kosovo’s bid for independence and the fate of two breakaway Georgian regions.
“I think these parallels that have been drawn by some people in the international arena are based sometimes on ignorance and sometimes from the fact that they have their own narrow political ends,” he [...]

The case of the jailed Egyptian blogger

In our globalized world the news of the recent conviction of a 22year old Egyptian blogger has already made to every corner of the planet.
Abdel Karim Souleiman was jailed for 4 years because he heavily critisized his university and the goverment through his blog posts. The penalty is actually considerd to be mild because there [...]

Greek-Bulgarian economic relations

Good bilateral relations between Greece and Bulgaria have helped realize the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline agreement, which is due to be officially signed by Greece, Bulgaria, and Russia in Athens this March. The long-awaited agreement will initiate the construction and operation of an oil pipeline linking the western Black Sea coast with the northeastern Aegean—a route [...]

New outlook for Strategic Analysis

The blog has as its first and foremost aim to inform citizens across the globe for international affairs using OSINT Management information. Therefore for the past 6 months 490+ articles, papers and analyses were presented that provide a substancial amount of knowledge on the complicated world of ours.
From now on Strategic Analysis, having first of [...]

Israeli airplanes violating Greek airspace

According to information from Greek daily newspapers and the Defence journal “Strategy”, Israeli airplanes violated Greek airspace a few weeks ago in order to test the anti-aircraft systems of the country, amongst them many Russian made ones. These are the same models used by the Iranian Army -Specifically Tor-M1- that were bought last year for [...]

Bolton: Kosovo’s status cannot be imposed

Former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said on Wednesday that ultimatums or imposed solutions could not be the right way to solve the future status of Kosovo.
Bolton is against an imposed solution to the Serbian province of Kosovo that would be unacceptible to the Serbian government because it is unlikely that such [...]

Military cooperation between Greece-Bulgaria

Greece and Bulgaria are about to sign an agreement by which the former will lease an area near Plontiv in order to use it as a military training ground. More specifically the Greek infantry, as well as, the Air force will be trained there and the total hosting capability of this Bulgarian training facility, is [...]

Arrests in Bulgaria and disbandement of radical Islamic network

Two websites in Bulgaria that were promoting radical and violent Islamic propaganda, closed down after a coordinated police operation.
Four people were arrested in relation to the above, and are charged for propagating ethnic hatred amongst the population . According to “Sofia Morning News” 2 men and 2 women were handed into custody and they were [...]

Big oil industries interested for Cyprus oil

Large oil companies from USA, Russia, UK  and China, Norway, France and Germany seem to be interested in investing for the assumed hydrocarbon reservoires, offshore Cyprus.
Despite Turkish opposition, Cyprus has already begun the process of initiating a bidding procedure for the aforementioned oil fields. Already 11 areas South and offshore Cyprus will be the first where the [...]

Washington reinstates Yemen’s funding

The Yemeni Ambassador to the U.S, Abdulwahab Al-Hajiri, received last Wednesday a telephone call from John Danilovich, Chairman of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, congratulating him for the Millennium Challenge Corporation Board of Director’s decision to reinstate Yemen for participation in the corporation’s program, said an official source in the Yemeni Embassy in Washington.
“Yemen has carried [...]