Eastern Europe

RFE/RL: US rejects Russian envoy’s claim diplomats were asked to leave country

The U.S. State Department has rejected a claim by Russia’s ambassador to the United States who said Washington had asked 24 Russian diplomats to leave …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Reuters: Russia reports 22,010 new COVID-19 cases, 788 deaths

Russia on Aug. 3 reported 22,010 new COVID-19 cases, including 1,952 in Moscow, taking the total to 6,334,195 since the pandemic began. Read more …
Reuters

Bloomberg: Germany sees no commitment to shut off Russian gas in Biden deal

Germany has little intention of shutting off Nord Stream 2 if Russian President Vladimir Putin tries to use the controversial pipeline as a …
Bloomberg

UkrInform: Head of the Belarusian House in Ukraine found hanged in Kyiv park

Belarusian citizen Vitaliy Shishov, head of the Belarusian House in Ukraine who was reported missing on Aug. 2, was found hanged in a Kyiv park. Read …
UkrInform

Reuters: Blinken says Belarus treatment of athlete intolerable ‘transnational repression’

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken blasted Belarus’ attempt to send home a sprinter from the Tokyo Olympics against her wishes as intolerable …
Reuters

Over 100 people convicted for protesting in Belarus in July

More than 100 people were convicted in criminal cases on protesting in Belarus in July, the Viasna human rights center, which is unregistered in the …
Interfax-Ukraine

Daily Mail: ‘Putin’s Banker’ tells court he never said Abramovich was ordered to buy Chelsea FC by Putin

The fugitive oligarch at the center of the ‘Putin’s People’ defamation case has denied making key claims about Roman Abramovich’s 150 million pounds …
Daily Mail

EU Observer: Moldova facing Europe’s worst demographic crisis

As Moldova prepares to mark 30 years since gaining independence from the Soviet Union, Eastern European is haunted by its staggering population …
EU Observer

Associated Press: Belarus sends reporter to prison over deleted chat messages

A court in Belarus convicted a journalist of insulting the president in messages in a deleted chat group and sentenced him to 1 1/2 years in prison, …
Associated Press

Associated Press: Russia leads artistic swimming duet prelims

Overwhelming favorites Svetlana Romashina and Svetlana Kolesnichenko of Russia led artistic swimming duet after the free routine preliminaries Monday …
Associated Press

RFE/RL: Russian сourt delays verdicts in case against US investor Calvey

A court in Moscow has announced a three-day postponement of the verdicts and possible sentencing of U.S. investor Michael Calvey and his associates in …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Reuters: Belarus athlete enters Poland’s embassy in Tokyo after refusing to return home

A Belarusian athlete at the centre of an Olympic standoff with her own country walked into Poland’s embassy in Japan on Monday, a day after refusing …
Reuters

BBC: Belarus Olympian seeking asylum in Poland

A sprinter from Belarus who refused her team’s order to fly home early from the Olympics is seeking asylum in Poland, activists say. Read more here.
BBC

Reuters: Russia reports 23,508 new COVID-19 cases, 785 deaths

Russia on Aug. 2 reported 23,508 new COVID-19 cases, including 3,330 in Moscow, taking the total number of cases to 6,312,185 since the pandemic …
Reuters

RFE/RL: EU commissioner due in Lithuania to discuss Belarusian border crisis

A senior EU official is due in Lithuania on Aug. 2 to discuss further measures to curb the growing number of people illegally crossing the border from …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

New York Times: Russia scoffs at Olympic ban

Russia’s Olympic team is competing abroad in unmarked uniforms without the country’s flag — not unlike the Russian Army on its unacknowledged military …
New York Times

Goethe Institute officially stops work in Belarus

Goethe Institute has shut down its Belarus office from July 30, its Secretary General Johannes Ebert has announced. Earlier, Belarusian authorities …
Reuters

RFE/RL: Russian opposition candidates face rivals with the same names

Boris Vishnevsky is a known figure in St. Petersburg. An opposition politician who heads the liberal Yabloko party’s committee in the local …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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