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Serbia's ruling populists insisted on Tuesday that weekend snap elections were free and fair despite criticism from international observers who noted multiple irregularities during the vote in the Balkan nation that is a candidate for European Union membership.

Russian schoolchildren have been roped into making supplies for Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, ranging from crutches and "stump stockings" for wounded troops, to key components for flying grenades.

Serbia’s ruling populists are insisting that weekend snap elections were free and fair, but international observers have noted multiple irregularities.

An incident of infrastructure sabotage in the Baltic Sea could show how Beijing and Moscow are already engaged in a hybrid war with the West.

Ireland has been consistent in its support for Ukrainian accession and offering humanitarian assistance to Ukrainian refugees. However, such support is about to be tested as the implications of what a bigger, poorer EU means come into focus

Critics of the government accuse it of unscrupulously manipulating electoral rules, while pro-government columnists dismiss such arguments as unsubstantiated an

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and the ruling SNS party have been in power for almost a decade and have been criticized for causing democratic backsliding in the country. There were allegations of voting irregularities in the Dec. 17 election.

Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko together with his colleagues from the CIS member states who arrived in Moscow for a meeting of the CIS Heads of Government Council visited the regional expositions of the Russia International Exhibition and Forum at VDNKh.

While Ukraine is preoccupied with short-term imperatives such as shoring up international support, the relative resilience of the Russian economy has enabled Putin to play a long game.

MOSCOW, Dec 18, 2023 (BSS/AFP) - The Kremlin on Monday welcomed the victory claimed in parliamentary elections by Serbian leader