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BBC: Hardliner Raisi set to become new Iran president

Hardliner Ebrahim Raisi is set to be Iran’s next president after winning most of the votes counted so far. Read more here.
BBC

UA.TV: World leaders discuss unfriendly activities of Russia and China

The week was marked by a number of meetings of world leaders to discuss issues of cooperation and global security. This is the G7 summit in Great …
UA.TV

FMs of Ukraine, Poland coordinate positions on counteraction to Nord Stream 2

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba met with Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomatic Forum. “Dmytro …
Interfax-Ukraine

Deutsche Welle: Merkel marks 80 years since Nazi invasion of Soviet Union

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on June 19 looked ahead to next week’s 80th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, calling it “an …
Deutsche Welle

Open4Business: Ukraine plans to tax ‘excess profits’ of exporters

The Verkhovna Rada is proposed to introduce ceiling prices for certain types of export products, upon exceeding which exporting companies will be …
Open4Business

Ben Dubow: Putin ally promises humiliated Armenia a better future

The election promises for Russia, at a minimum, a major boost to its influence in Armenia. Read more here.
Ben Dubow

UkrInform: Kuleba on Crimean Platform summit – ‘Russia will not stop us’

No Russia’s attempts to put pressure on individual countries to thwart the Crimean Platform summit will succeed. Read more here.
UkrInform

RFE/RL: Poles blame Kremlin for ‘unprecedented’ cyberattack on senior officials

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said that Poland’s security services were scrambling to “secure the many inboxes” of ranking politicians …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Reuters: 4 killed, 4 badly injured in plane crash in Siberia

Four people were killed and four badly injured on June 19 when a small plane crashed in Russia’s Kemerovo region in southwestern Siberia, the local …
Reuters

Paul Goble: A brief dictionary of Putin newspeak

As George Orwell warned more than half a century ago, a dictatorship that can enforce its definition of key terms on the population provides itself …
Paul A. Goble

Reuters: Russia reports 17,906 new COVID-19 cases, 466 deaths

MOSCOW – Russia on June 19 reported 17,906 new COVID-19 cases, including a record 9,120 in Moscow, pushing the national infection tally up to …
Reuters

Karel Hirman: How Ukraine can protect its gas transit after Nord Stream 2

Whether or not the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline will be completed is no longer a relevant question. The key question in the coming months, and possibly …
Karel Hirman

COVID-19 in Ukraine: 852 new cases, 40 new deaths, 67,101 new vaccinations

Ukraine has registered 852 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on June 19. The total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic is …
Oleg Sukhov

RFE/RL: 2 Russian opposition lawmakers detained ahead of elections

MOSCOW — Russian authorities have detained two opposition municipal lawmakers from Moscow and St. Petersburg, in a possible attempt to thwart them …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

UkrInform: Strategy for defense industry complex development approved

The Strategy for the Development of the Defense Industry Complex of Ukraine was considered and approved at the National Security and Defense Council …
UkrInform

Arshaluis Mghdesyan: Russia looms large over Armenian elections

Russia is playing a key role in Armenia’s upcoming snap parliamentary elections, with all the main players pledging closer ties with their traditional …
Arshaluis Mghdesyan

Reuters: Election in Armenia, meant to end political crisis, is too close to call

MOSCOW – Armenia’s political fate hangs in the balance ahead of a parliamentary election on June 20 with opinion polls putting the party of acting …
Reuters

UkrInform: 3 ceasefire violations recorded in eastern Ukraine

Over the past day, June 18, three ceasefire violations by the Russian-occupation troops were recorded in the Joint Forces Operation area in eastern …
UkrInform
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