Eastern Europe

Reuters: Russia denies report that seven planes destroyed in Syria attack

MOSCOW – Russia denied a report in daily newspaper Kommersant that seven Russian planes had been destroyed by rebel shelling at Syria’s Hmeymim air …
Reuters

The Hill: Russia developing cryptocurrency to evade sanctions

Russian officials are developing a cryptocurrency intended to help the country evade international financial sanctions, the Financial Times reported …
The Hill

BBC: Russia supermarket bombing – St. Petersburg man charged with terrorism

Russian authorities have charged a St. Petersburg man with terrorism over the bombing of a supermarket in the city that wounded 18 people. Read more …
BBC

Bloomberg: OPEC deal doesn’t stop Russia from record oil output in 2017

Russia’s oil industry continued its long-term expansion last year, with production hitting a record even as President Vladimir Putin joined forces …
Bloomberg

Putin signs law increasing fines for violating procedures governing foreigners’ stay in Russia

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law aimed at toughening administrative liability for violations of the procedures governing the …
Interfax-Ukraine

Putin signs law toughening punishment for ‘telephone terrorism’

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law envisaging punishment from three to ten years of imprisonment for hoax phone calls with …
Interfax-Ukraine

Man detained in St. Petersburg explosion case arrested until late Feb.

ST. PETERSBURG – St. Petersburg’s Kalininsky District Court has sanctioned two-month arrest of Dmitry Lukyanenko, who was detained in the case of an …
Interfax-Ukraine

RFE/RL: St. Petersburg supermarket bombing suspect charged with terrorism

Russia’s Investigative Committee says it has indicted the suspect in the St. Petersburg supermarket bombing earlier this week on terrorism …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Associated Press: Putin toughens penalty for bomb threats plaguing Russia

MOSCOW — As telephoned bomb threats continue to inundate Russian authorities, President Vladimir Putin has signed a law doubling the penalty for false …
Associated Press

Wall Street Journal: Partisan divisions emerge over future of congressional Russia investigations

WASHINGTON—As Congress is set to return from the holiday break, sharp differences have emerged between Republicans and Democrats over the next steps …
Wall Street Journal

Putin signs law liberalizing control over citizens’ foreign accounts

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing Russian citizens who live abroad permanently not to notify tax bodies of the …
Interfax-Ukraine

Al Jazeera: Donald Trump rejects accusations of Russia collusion

US President Donald Trump has denied any collusion between his campaign for the 2016 US presidential election and Russia, amid an ongoing federal …
Al Jazeera

The Guardian: Stalin’s legacy lives on in city that slaves built

At the end of the second world war, as Europe was preparing to celebrate its victory over fascism, the Soviet authorities arrested an entire school of …
The Guardian

Washington Post: A new Russian film takes us back to the USSR to celebrate a Soviet Olympic miracle

MOSCOW — It would be easy to assume the Russian blockbuster that hit theaters last week is a nationalist feel-good flick that really sticks it to the …
Washington Post

New York Times: How the Russia inquiry began

WASHINGTON — During a night of heavy drinking at an upscale London bar in May 2016, George Papadopoulos, a young foreign policy adviser to the Trump …
New York Times

Financial Times: Sanctioned Russian gas shipment ‘will not enter UK network’

When a tanker full of Russian gas docked at the Isle of Grain import terminal in Kent on Thursday night, as Britain experienced its lowest …
Financial Times

Los Angeles Times: Kremlin sees bad US-Russia ties as top 2017 disappointment

MOSCOW – Topping the Kremlin’s list for disappointments in 2017? The failure to restore ties with the U.S., according to spokesman Dmitry …
Los Angeles Times

RFE/RL: Russia says US senator barred because of ‘blacklist’

WASHINGTON – The Russian Embassy in Washington said late on December 30 that it had refused entry to U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen because she’s on a …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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