Eastern Europe

Reuters: Johnson to Russia – Stop destabilising Europe

MOSCOW – British foreign minister Boris Johnson will tell his Russian counterpart in talks on Dec. 22 that there can be no “business as usual” between …
Reuters

Associated Press: Russian parliament ratifies naval base agreement with Syria

The Russian parliament voted on December 21 to extend Russia’s lease of a naval base in Syria for 49 years, following Vladimir Putin’s announcement of …
Associated Press

Associated Press: Pussy Riot activist sentenced to community works for protest

An activist from the punk collective Pussy Riot has been sentenced to 40 hours of community service for a protest outside the headquarters of Russia’s …
Associated Press

Associated Press: Putin says theater director’s case has no ulterior motives

President Vladimir Putin is rejecting allegations that a prominent Russian theater and film director under investigation for embezzlement is being …
Associated Press

RFE/RL: Russian document suggests all foreign media could be labeled ‘agents’

A draft order released by the Russian Justice Ministry suggests that the government may decide to label all media outlets receiving foreign funding as …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Financial Times: Russia’s elite faces nervous wait for US to reveal sanctions list

When some of Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics convened in Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital, earlier this month for the Free Russia Forum, a regular …
Financial Times

Reuters: Dying for a paycheck – the Russian civilians fighting in Syria

When Vladimir Kabunin signed up as a private military contractor, he saw a chance to make a wage much higher than any he could earn in his provincial …
Reuters

Financial Times: Boris Johnson faces cold reception in Russia trip

Boris Johnson will hold talks in Moscow on Dec. 22 during the first official visit by a British foreign secretary to Russia in five years, with …
Financial Times

Gazprom terminates pipe contracts for pipeline leading to Nord Stream 2

MOSCOW – Gazprom has terminated contracts for pipes intended for the Gryazovets-Slavyanskaya pipeline, which is supposed to feed gas into the Nord …
Interfax-Ukraine

The Moscow Times: Patriotism at historic highs in Russia, poll shows

Patriotic fervor has reached historic highs in modern Russia, according to an independent Levada Center poll released Dec. 21. Read more here.
The Moscow Times

RFE/RL: US policy toward Russia toughens, despite Trump talk

Statements from the Kremlin and the White House last weekend about thwarting a purported terrorist attack in St. Petersburg seemed to suggest that the …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Associated Press: US slaps five Russians with sanctions over human rights

WASHINGTON — The United States on Dec.20 imposed sanctions on five Russians, including the leader of Chechnya, under a US human rights law that has …
Associated Press

Reuters: Russia working on defensive measures to counter possible new US sanctions

Russia is working on defensive measures to prepare for possible new sanctions from the United States and other countries, the Kremlin said on December …
Reuters

Reuters: Russian oil firm Tatneft ran Crimea fuel station, despite sanctions risk

One of Russia’s biggest oil companies, Tatneft, has been doing business in Crimea despite the risk of being placed on a U.S. sanctions blacklist, …
Reuters

Bloomberg: Russia suffers holiday retail nightmare as cash registers crash

Russian retailers were left counting the cost of a holiday-season glitch that may have caused billions of rubles in lost sales after the failure of …
Bloomberg

UNIAN: Kremlin deems UN resolution on Crimea `wrong`

Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said the Kremlin considers the resolution on Crimea, which has recently been adopted by the UN General …
UNIAN

Bloomberg: There’s still a huge influx of foreign cash to Russia

Ultimately, international sanctions and the worst relations with the U.S. since the Cold War did little to deter an influx of foreign cash.  Russian …
Bloomberg

UNIAN: Warsaw suspicious of Moscow over 2010 plane crash

Poland’s foreign minister said on December 20 that the longer Russia keeps the wreckage of a plane crash that killed the Polish president in 2010, the …
UNIAN
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