Eastern Europe

AFP: Russian gas disputes loom over EU-Ukraine summit

EU leaders meet on Oct. 12 with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has fiercely opposed a new gas pipeline that bypasses his country and …
Agence France-Presse

The Moscow Times: Navalny congratulates Muratov on Nobel Peace Prize win

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has congratulated Dmitry Muratov on his Nobel Peace Prize win on October 11, days after the Novaya Gazeta …
The Moscow Times

The Moscow Times: Medvedev calls Ukraine’s leadership ‘vassal’

Russia cannot negotiate with the “vassal” leadership of Ukraine, former President Dmitry Medvedev said in an expletive-laden article published on …
The Moscow Times

Bloomberg: Putin says he has a cold, assures officials it is not COVID-19

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he has a cold and he isn’t suffering from COVID-19 after he was heard repeatedly coughing at a televised meeting …
Bloomberg

Moldova hoping to sign new gas deal with Gazprom on old terms

Moldova is hoping to sign a new long-term gas supply contract with Russia’s Gazprom (MOEX: GAZP) on the same terms as the old one, Deputy Moldovan …
Interfax-Ukraine

Reuters: Russian nationalists ransack slain Kremlin critic’s memorial to protest US visit

Russian nationalists ransacked a makeshift memorial to slain Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov in central Moscow early on October 11 to protest against the …
Reuters

Reuters: Russia’s Navalny says prison has changed his status to ‘terrorist’

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on October 11 that a prison commission had designated him an extremist and a terrorist, but officially no …
Reuters

France 24: Czech politics in doubt with president in hospital

Czech politics was thrown into uncertainty Oct. 11 with the president spending a second day in intensive care and his chief ally, the outgoing …
France 24

RFE/RL: Russian prison officials designate Navalny a ‘terrorist’

MOSCOW – Prison officials in Russia have deemed imprisoned opposition leader Aleksei Navalny a person “who espouses an extremist and terrorist …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Euronews: In Poland’s borderlands, ignorance echo Europe’s darkest era

Every year for the last two decades, Elżbieta has made the two-hour drive from her home in Warsaw to close to the Polish-Belarussian border to go …
Euronews

Brookings Institution: Fiona Hill discusses her new book

Brookings senior fellow Fiona Hill, a leading expert on Russia and Vladimir Putin and former senior director for European and Russian affairs on the …
Brookings Institution

Daily Mail: Sources say Russia used blueprint for the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab to develop Sputnik

Russia was today accused of using a spy embedded in Britain to steal the design for the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine so Russian President Vladimir Putin …
Daily Mail

RFE/RL: Moldovan leftists protest arrests in Prosecutor’s Office

Several hundred people protested in the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, against the October 5 suspension of Prosecutor-General Alexandru Stoianoglo in an …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Reuters: Russia’s daily COVID-19 death toll hovers near all-time high

Russia reported 957 coronavirus-related deaths on October 11, close to the all-time high of 968 reported two days earlier. Read more here.
Reuters

Associated Press: Fiona Hill, a nobody to Trump and Putin, saw into them both

Russian President Vladimir Putin paid scant attention to Fiona Hill, a preeminent U.S. expert on Russia when she was seated next to him at dinners. …
Associated Press

Associated Press: Poll shows cyberattacks concerning to most in US

Most Americans across party lines have serious concerns about cyberattacks on U.S. computer systems and view China and Russia as major threats, …
Associated Press

CNN: Record number of people attempt to cross Poland-Belarus border

A record number of people attempted to cross the border between Poland and Belarus on October 9, amid accusations that Belarus is facilitating …
CNN

Reuters: US, Russia lift targeted sanctions to allow Nuland visit

Russia will allow the U.S. Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland to visit for talks despite having previously blacklisted her, after Washington …
Reuters
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