Albanian paramilitarists emerge in Epirus

An Albanian paramilitary group calling itself
Liberation Army of Chameria (OVC) has emerged in
northern Greece, the Albanian-language web site
Dervina.com. said.
Along with the news on OVC’s appearance, the web site
shows video footage of Albanian television channel
News 24.
Just a few days ago, the mayor of Albania’s
municipality of Himara, predominated by an ethnic
Greek minority, called for the formation of [...]

Update on Turkish-Kurdish relations

April 18, 2007: The PKK threatened to officially end the  “on and off ceasefire” they have with Turkey. Meanwhile,  Turkey is conducting a “counter-guerrilla” sweep in southeastern Turkey and there apparently Turkish forces near the Iraq-Turkey border. Despite all this,  a full-scale attack on PKK positions in northern Iraq (the invasion scenario) remains unlikely. The [...]

Biography of the Commander of Greek Armed Forces

PANAGIOTIS CHINOFOTIS -Admiral-
Admiral Panagiotis Chinofotis a native of Athens , Greece , was born in 1949, Aug 12 and graduated from the Hellenic Naval Academy , Piraeus and commissioned as Ensign of the Hellenic Navy in July 1971.
In 1989 he graduated from the US Naval War College/NCC and at the same year he earned a [...]

Biography of the Commander of Turkish Armed Forces

YAŞAR BÜYÜKANIT -General-
 
General Yaşar BÜYÜKANIT, the 25th Commander of the Turkish Armed Forces, was born in İstanbul in 1940. He graduated from the Military Academy in 1961 as an infantry officer. After Graduating from the Infantry School in 1963, he served in different units of the Land Forces as Platoon and Commando Company Commander until [...]

Greek-Romania economic ties

Trade Balance Greece-Romania, 2006 (in Million Euro)
Greek exports increased by 45.7%, to 595.82 million Euro compared with 408.86 million Euro in 2005. Romanian exports to Greece increased by 16.3%, from 434.27 million Euro to 505.26 million Euro. Trade volume increased by 30.6% from 843.13 million Euro in 2005 to1.10 billion Euro in 2006.
During 2006 Romania [...]

Polish – Greek economic ties

The last three years were extremely good for Polish foreign trade. Export revenues in 2004, according to official data, reached 73 781,2 million EUR, and were higher by 37,7 % compared to 2003. The import expenses rose by 29,6 % and reached the total amount of 88 156,4 million EUR. As a result of slower [...]

KISSINGER, PRIMAKOV to head USA-Russia working group

Russia and the United States are forming a working group that will focus on the future of bilateral relations and will be co-chaired by a former Russian premier and an ex-U.S. secretary of state.
President Vladimir Putin met with the co-chairmen, Yevgeny Primakov and Henry Kissinger, in Moscow Thursday and welcomed the idea.
“I have supported the [...]

HELLENIC FOUNDATION opening centre in Trieste

Another city will soon aquire a Hellenic Foundation for Cutlure Branch, as the organization moves to begin operating in a city that has a powerful Greek diaspora in the past and continues to today. Trieste will be the newest centre to be opened by the HFC. The Hellenic Foundation for Culture has acquired appropriate space [...]

Natural gas statistics

World natural gas reserves as of 2005
Russia: 48 trillion cubic metres
Caspian Sea states (Iran, Azerbaizan, Khazakstan, Turkmenistan): 34 trillion cubic metres
Rest of the World: 98 trillion cubic metres
Percentage of reliance to Russian natural gas imports for selected European states, as of 2006.
Greece: 1oo%
Finland: 100%
Poland: 63%
Germany: 40%
Hungary: 77%
Italy: 33%
Austria: 78%
Slovakia: 100%
France: 32%
Natural gas production for states [...]

Al Qaeda’s Balkan Links ( A 2001 article still very relevant)

The Balkans’ uncharacteristically silent exit from the world stage as the most prominent international hot spot of the last decade belies its status as a major recruiting and training center of Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network. By feeding off the region’s impoverished republics and taking root in the unsettled diplomatic aftermath of the Bosnia [...]