Eastern Europe

The Moscow Times: Russia’s oldest polar bear in captivity dies at 38

Russia’s oldest polar bear has died at the age of 38, a zoo in Perm has announced. Polar bear Amderma was captured in the Yamal-Nenets autonomous …
The Moscow Times

BBC: YouTube and Instagram face Russian bans

YouTube and Instagram face being blocked by Russian internet service providers as a result of a standoff between one of the country’s richest …
BBC

Irish Times: Investigators say human error may have caused Russia plane crash

Human error may be to blame for the Russian plane crash that killed 71 people, investigators said, noting that the plane’s pilots failed to turn on …
Irish Times

Reuters: Russia eyes multi-million-dollar Saudi investment deals, Aramco IPO

Russia is seeking to finalise multi-million-dollar investment deals with Saudi Arabia in the next three months including partnerships with state oil …
Reuters

The Atlantic: Russia’s air industry is a victim of its own success

Four minutes after taking off from Moscow on February 11 afternoon, a Saratov Airlines Antonov An-148 headed for Orsk plummeted 6,000 feet into the …
The Atlantic

RFE/RL: Kremlin distances itself from reports of mercenary deaths in Syria

The chief Kremlin spokesman has suggested that if any Russians were killed by U.S. air strikes in Syria last week, they were not regular soldiers, …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

RFE/RL: Russia plans to help Syria rebuild devastated oil, power industries

Russia plans to help Syria rebuild energy facilities that have been devastated by years of war, Russian Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak has said. “We …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Reuters: Russia calls reports of mass Syria casualties ‘disinformation’

Media reports about hundreds of Russians killed while fighting in Syria is “classic disinformation”, Russia’s RIA news agency quoted a Russian Foreign …
Reuters

New York Times: A literary road trip into the heart of Russia

Russia is a land of stories. Stories of the czar and his people, of Lenin and the revolution, of the Great Patriotic War; of the transformation of a …
New York Times

Associated Press: Dutch foreign minister under fire for lying about Putin

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Netherlands’ foreign minister is facing a tough debate in Parliament following his admission that he lied about attending …
Associated Press

Reuters: US intelligence chief says more Russian cyber attacks on elections ‘likely’

WASHINGTON – US Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said on Feb.13 that Russia, as well as other foreign entities, were “likely” to pursue …
Reuters

BBC: Russia Saratov crash – Ice on sensors ‘may be cause’

Speed sensors that were iced over may have caused a passenger jet to crash near Moscow, killing all 71 people on board, investigators say. Read more …
BBC

Associated Press: US urges Russia to honor 1987 arms pact, warns of collapse

BRUSSELS — The United States is urging Russia to prove it’s honoring a landmark nuclear arms treaty from the Soviet era or to prepare for the pact to …
Associated Press

The Guardian: Russian watchdog orders YouTube to remove Navalny video

Russia has threatened to block access to YouTube and Instagram if the websites do not remove videos and photos of a Kremlin-linked oligarch’s meeting …
The Guardian

Associated Press: Plane crash in Russia caused by pilots’ error on speed data

Investigators say the crash of a Russian passenger plane that killed all 71 people on board may have been caused by the pilots’ failure to activate …
Associated Press

RFE/RL: ‘False’ radiation alert causes scare in Russia

Residents of Russia’s Yaroslavl region got a scare when local TV and radio stations broadcast a radiation warning, but the Emergency Situations …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Reuters: Russia rejects Dutch minister’s comments on Putin as ‘fake news’

AMSTERDAM – The Russian Embassy in the Netherlands on Feb.13 rejected as “fake news” comments by the Dutch foreign minister about an aggressive …
Reuters

Reuters: Russia accuses United States of undermining Syria integrity

MOSCOW – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Feb.13 that in Syria the United States has been acting unilaterally in a “dangerous way”, …
Reuters
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