Eastern Europe

Huffington Post: Trump uses Florida school massacre as excuse to attack FBI’s Russia probe

President Donald Trump has criticized the FBI for missing “all of the many signals” sent out by the suspect in Wednesday’s deadly high school shooting …
Huffington Post

Deutsche Welle: Uncertainty, competition mark the space between the EU and Russia

Eastern Europe and Central Asia have been caught between western Europe and Russia since the Cold War ended. At the Munich Security Conference, …
Deutsche Welle

Euronews: Lavrov warns EU is pushing Serbia towards Ukraine-style crisis

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has warned the European Union that trying to force Serbia to distance itself from Moscow in return for closer …
Euronews

The Independent: Russia’s private mercenaries and the lengths Moscow goes to deny them

For a private army without an official name, and in a country where its activity is illegal, we already seem to know a lot about Russia‘s Wagner. …
The Independent

Agence France-Presse: US vows investigation into Syria attack involving Russians

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Saturday vowed to investigate an attack involving Russian citizens on American-allied forces in Syria but stopped …
Agence France-Presse

Reuters: US-based Russian news outlet registers as foreign agent

U.S.-based Russian news outlet RIA Global LLC has registered as a foreign agent with the U.S. Justice Department, the fourth Russian-linked media …
Reuters

LB.ua: Klimkin says much to learn from Ukraine on fighting hybrid war

Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said that over the past four years, Ukraine has made significant progress in confronting the hybrid war. Read more …
LB.ua

UNIAN: Russian-led forces engage tank, 122mm artillery to attack Ukraine in Donbas

One Ukrainian soldier was wounded in action over the period under review. Read more here.
UNIAN

Al Jazeera: US and Russia trade barbs at Munich Security Conference

Tensions between Russia and the US over Moscow’s alleged meddling in the 2016 US presidential election were on full display during the second day of a …
Al Jazeera

Washington Post: A former Russian troll says his job was like being in Orwell’s world

The indictment by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III of 13 Russians associated with a St. Petersburg online “troll factory” that allegedly …
Washington Post

Reuters: Director says Russian film set in Soviet era highlights continuing tensions

BERLIN – Russia always seems to be on the brink of war and conditions there now are much like they were in the 1970s, when people worried that an …
Reuters

Agence France-Presse: Netanyahu slams ‘outrageous’ Holocaust remark by Polish PM

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday lashed out at “outrageous” remarks by his Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki, who said the …
Agence France-Presse

Al Jazeera: Is Russia attempting to erase Crimean Muslim culture?

BAKHCHISARAY – The mosque looked like a bandaged patient. Read more here.
Al Jazeera

Los Angeles Times: Dutch foreign minister quits after lying about Putin meeting

The Dutch foreign affairs minister resigned Tuesday, a day after admitting that he lied about attending a meeting hosted by Russian President Vladimir …
Los Angeles Times

Financial Times: ‘Putin’s chef’ who trolled the US election

On May 29, 2016, an American posed in front of the White House with a sign reading, “Happy 55th Birthday Dear Boss”. Read more here.
Financial Times

112.ua: Lavrov says Minsk agreements are above all Ukrainian laws on Donbas

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov criticized Ukraine’s law on reintegration of Donbas in an interview for Euronews. Read more here.
112.ua

Associated Press: Khodorkovsky plots out a long game, a post-Putin Russia

LONDON — He once was Russia’s richest man, and then for 10 years its most famous prisoner. Now Mikhail Khodorkovsky wants to try a new mantle: …
Associated Press

Associated Press: Russian indicted in election probe says US justice ‘one-sided’

MOSCOW — One of the 13 Russians indicted by the United States for interfering in the American presidential election says the U.S. justice system is …
Associated Press
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