Turkey: Prosecutors demand arrest of admirals, majors in Turkish military espionage case

Prosecutors in the Aegean province of İzmir have released an arrest warrant for two admirals and four navy majors for producing fake evidence and blackmailing in a now-closed military spying case.

Serbia made it clear to EU it won't tolerate humiliation

In a written statement to the press, carried by the Serbian government's website, Dacic said that Belgrade "made it clear to the EU that it seeks mutual respect and that it will not tolerate blackmail and humiliation."

Europe blackmailing Greece, says minister (Panagiotis Lafazanis) in Athens

Greece has lived under the toughest pressure on the part of European institutes in the past few months, the Greek Minister of Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy, Panagiotis Lafazanis said on Monday in an interview with the Rossiya’24 news channel.

Greece should resume policy dialogue and agree on reforms, Draghi tells MEPs

The European Central Bank’s expanded asset purchase programme, better known as “quantitative easing” (QE), is starting to make headway across the EU, ECB President Mario Draghi told Economic and Monetary Committee MEPs on Monday.

Cyprus will not be drawn into talks under threat

The President of the Republic Nicos Anastasiades has made it crystal clear that he will not be forced to return to the negotiating table, under threat or blackmail, expressing at the same time regret that the UN Secretary General has adopted the “logic of blackmail.”

Co-leader of Germany’s Left Party says German government blackmails Greece

Co-leader of Germany’s Left Party, Bernd Riexinger, has accused the federal government of blackmailing Athens and of deliberate attempts to destabilize the situation in Greece.

Russia won’t be blackmailed, Putin says / US hostility to Russia jeopardizes global stability

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned Washington that further tensions over Ukraine could threaten global stability and that his country would not be blackmailed by sanctions.

Putin made the comments during an interview with the Serbian daily Politika on Wednesday, ahead of a brief visit to the Serbian capital Belgrade scheduled for Thursday.

Russian Speaker Matvienko calls US sanctions 'pure blackmail,' claims to have no assets abroad

Russia's Upper House Speaker Valentina Matvienko has branded the US decision to impose sanctions against a number of Russian government officials, including her, as political blackmail. She also said she had no assets, accounts or property abroad.

"The announcement of sanctions against senior Russian officials who carry out their public functions is an unprecedented decision, the likes of which the world had not seen even during the Cold War. To call things by their proper names, this is political blackmail. The US government knows that I have no accounts, assets or property abroad," Matvienko told reporters.