Mikhail Gorbachev, another former leader of a different country and time, recognized this Red Revolution noting that the political crisis in Ukraine stemmed from its government's failure to act democratically ...Gorbachev was also ousted and arrested after establishing long awaited political and economic reforms in the former Soviet Union ... parliamentary power to remove the president in the event of state treason or another crime.(2)....(size: 4.9Kb)
US PresidentBarack Obama told Hamid Karzai on Tuesday that he is now planning for a full US troop withdrawal because oftheAfghan leader's repeated refusal to sign a security pact. But in a rare telephone call with Afghan PresidentKarzai, Obama also held out the possibility of agreeing to a post-2014 training and anti-terror mission with the next government in Kabul...black flags of al-Qaida flying over the city ofFallujah."....(size: 4.8Kb)
The attack occurred in the middle ofthe night at theFederal Government College Buni Yadi -- a state-run, co-educational school in Yobe state ...The witnesses say when the students tried to escape, the attackers forced them back inside the burning buildings....(size: 1.4Kb)
In the short term, however, it would be excruciatingly painful for many sectors ofUkraine's economy and would commit the EU and other international organizations like theInternational Monetary Fund to spending billions in aid ... in the east ofthe country, and Kremlin meddling — could derail any effort to bring Ukraine closer to the EU....(size: 6.5Kb)
On 25 June 1992, the Heads of State and Government of eleven countries signed in Istanbul the Summit Declaration and the Bosporus Statement giving birth to the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC). It came into existence as a model of multilateral political and economic initiative aimed at fostering interaction and harmony among the Member States, as well as to ensure peace, stability and prosperity encouraging friendly and good-neighbourly relations in the Black Sea region.
The BSEC Headquarters - the Permanent International Secretariat of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC PERMIS) - was established in March 1994 in Istanbul.
With the entry into force of its Charter on 1 May 1999, BSEC acquired international legal identity and was transformed into a full-fledged regional economic organization: Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation. With the accession of Serbia (then Serbia and Montenegro) in April 2004, the Organization’s Member States increased to twelve.