Croatia’s Mario Banozic allegedly caused the accident while passing a truck on a slippery road in foggy conditions Croatian Defense Minister Mario Banozic has been dismissed from his post following his involvement in a traffic accident that left one person dead and seriously injured him, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic announced.

Dmitry Peskov has dismissed a label given by several Western media outlets, saying that Astana pursues a flexible foreign policy Attempts by the Western media to portray Kazakhstan as Russia’s “backyard” are an element of information warfare and have nothing to do with reality, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov has said.

Kiev’s backers worry that the targeting of Russian political figures could play into Moscow’s hands, Mark Galeotti has suggested Ukrainian terrorist attacks on prominent Russian public figures are widening the rift between Western and Kiev’s intelligence services, Mark Galeotti, a British historian and expert on modern Russia, has said.