Eastern Europe

Associated Press: Russia offers help to UK to probe poisoning

Russia’s foreign minister says the country could help Britain investigate the poisoning there of an ex-Russian spy, but expressed resentment of …
Associated Press

The Guardian: Russian spy poisoning inquiry widens after medics treat 21 people

The investigation into the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal has widened, as police sealed off the graves of his wife, Liudmila, and son, Alexander, …
The Guardian

The Stanford Daily: Stanford suspends all undergraduate programs in Russia

Stanford suspended all undergraduate study abroad programs to Russia, including a summer internship at the Carnegie Moscow Center, after the …
The Stanford Daily

Reuters: Theresa May says Britain will respond if Russia is proved to be behind nerve attack

LONDON – Britain will respond appropriately if evidence shows Moscow was behind a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter in …
Reuters

RFE/RL: Opposition to Russia’s Nord Stream pipeline growing in Eastern Europe

Several Eastern European states have ramped up their opposition to a new gas pipeline linking Russia with Germany and have raised their concerns in …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Wall Street Journal: The 16-year-old Russian who joined the anti-Putin movement

Until last year, 16-year-old Vitaliy Smitienko, a high school student in Moscow, wasn’t interested in politics. But after watching one of Kremlin …
Wall Street Journal

Associated Press: Tillerson, Russia’s Lavrov both in Africa, but don’t meet

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — They could have run into each other sipping coffee in the lobby, perhaps at the bar at Ethiopia’s finest hotel. But U.S. …
Associated Press

112.ua: Sobchak listed in Myrotvorets database

Russian presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak got listed in Myrotvorets database on March 7 for illegal visit to annexed Crimea in 2014. This was …
112.ua

BBC: Nerve agent used on Russian spy, and Florida gun law move

Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were attacked with a nerve agent, in a case now being treated as attempted murder, police …
BBC

RFE/RL: Russian civil rights activist gets suspended prison sentence

A Russian civil rights activist who was put on trial for posting online videos deemed by authorities as “extremist” has received a suspended two-year …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

RFE/RL: Weeks before Skripal incident, Litvinenko’s wife warned of Russian reach

While British counterterrorism police continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the sudden severe illness of a Russian defector and his …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

RFE/RL: Russians charged with selling fake IDs from non-existent country

Police in St. Petersburg say they have apprehended a group of Russian men who are accused of fabricating and selling phony identification documents …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Reuters: UK knows more about mystery substance behind illness of Russian double agent

Britain said on March 7 that investigators now knew more about a mystery substance that struck down a former Russian double agent and his daughter in …
Reuters

RFE/RL: ‘Racism’ furor in Russia’s Tatarstan over ‘Poor jew’ ice cream

The Jewish community in Russia’s Tatarstan region has expressed outrage about the name and packaging design of a new ice cream called Poor Jew. The …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Aljazeera: Islam in Russia

The Muslim community in Russia continues to grow, having reached 25 million, according to the grand mufti of Russia, Sheikh Rawil Gaynetdin. In a …
Aljazeera

RFE/RL: Russian Duma speaker – Female journalists should change job to avoid harassment

The speaker of the Russian State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, has told female journalists who report from the legislature to change their jobs if they …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Reuters: Russian ex-spy, daughter still critical after suspected poisoning in UK

Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia remain in a critical condition in intensive care in the hospital, British police …
Reuters

At least nine dead in helicopter crash in Chechnya

A helicopter presumably belonging to the border service has crashed near the village of Khildekharoi in Chechnya and nine people are believed dead, an …
Interfax-Ukraine
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