Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian ruler of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya, on May 21 said that the region's prime minister, Muslim Khuchiyev, had resigned to take to another unspecified job. Kadyrov named Highways Minister Isa Tumkhadzhiyev as acting prime minister.
The small Western Balkan nation of Moldova has signed a security and defense partnership with the European Union, the first country to ink such a pact, according to EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.
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EU and U.S. officials have expressed mounting concern at uncoordinated actions by Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti's government that threaten to further raise tensions with ethnic minority Serbs in the north of that Balkan country.
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